Author: Dipankan

  • On the roads less travelled: Notes from the Land of the Dawn-Lit Mountains

    Travelling to me has always been like an escapade. While a job provides one with a sense of accomplishment and opportunities to learn and grow professionally, there is not quite a feeling that can rival that of a journey towards self-realisation and understanding one’s own wants better. In many ways, treading onto new places, ticking […]

  • Exploring Google’s India Mobility Report (2020)

    Silicon Valley giant Google’s quarterly data release on the state of mobility across the world comes in as a handy tool to evaluate emerging trends in our transitory preferences. The data, which is anonymised and provides a wide range of statistics on an array of parameters, can prove to be of potent value while analysing […]

  • Data Viz of the Week: Indian Coal Mines Production (2019-2020)

    Coal production has for long been seen as a profitable venture. The competitive mining sector mostly dominated by state-owned entities have been on a diversifying prowl as prospects of further expansion seem limited. With the government having a strong intent to include renewable energy as a major fuel source for India’s dynamic economy, these coal […]

  • A Great Escapade at the SCG

    Hanuma Vihari’s knock at the SCG may not reflect volumes on the scorecard, but his innings could be as special as it gets. What resilience and fortitude! To expect a man, who has had a relatively poor series and was on the verge of getting dropped, to save the match from the jaws of a […]

  • Stringency Index and the Efficacy of A Lockdown

    New Delhi’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak, in the early months of the pandemic metamorphosing into a public health threat, was that of a strong lockdown. Blanket bans on most sectors, including travel- critical to India’s lifeline, were thrust upon the general public without adequate time to prepare or relocate. Several initial theoretical models predicted […]

  • Analysing IPL 2020: Looking Beyond the Obvious

    The Indian Premier League is certainly an event of global grandeur in the cricketing world. After a delayed start due to logistical challenges within a COVID-ridden India, the BCCI had to shift the cash-rich tournament to the Arab Emirates for safe and smooth conduct of play. After fifty-plus season matches so far, we have finally […]

  • Exploring Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) through a Computer Simulation

    I am that type of a person who takes the rather mundane activity of listening to music seriously. When it comes to audio playback, I hold audio bitrate, depth and mixing of a track as essential ingredients that guarantee auditory pleasure. However, if external variables as background noise pervade through the experience, it certainly does […]

  • The Post-Pandemic Migrant Muddle

    Shortly after India announced a nationwide lockdown designed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, distressing images of hapless and disoriented migrant workers from all over the country started pouring in. A courtesy notice period of four hours, of course, did not improve matters much. Some trudged thousands of kilometres to return to their […]

  • Novel Ways to Detect COVID-19: Notes from Recent Scientific Papers

    The recent media frenzy over the safety trial of an experimental coronavirus vaccine conducted by the University of Oxford was at best, premature. In India, misinformation has now become the accepted norm for the national media. It came as no surprise, therefore, that certain segments of the electronic and print media latched onto the news […]

  • Extraction (2020): A Brutal Borefest that even Thor cannot save

    With Netflix’s profits soaring through the roof amidst the global lockdown, the video-streaming company decided to drop yet another film to win over its subcontinental fans- and garner some more. What they entirely overlooked in this despicable lust for minting quick money was a good backstory- and Extraction, without one, has it all falling apart.  Netflix has […]