Arijit's Special Newsletter

Ramblings & essays

Ebb and Flow

Dear L, If you have ever worked in a Chemistry laboratory, you probably have come accross balances, usually used to measure amounts of chemicals to certain degrees of precision. On these jewelers’ tools encased in a glass boxes, the balance arm, rests on a socket, until you turn a knob…

Difficulty

Dear L, If you ever find me on an evening, on front of a TV, mashing buttons, as my character in video game failing over and over, you won’t be hard pressed to think that I might be flirting with insanity. If you ever asked me the question, why…

Projects

Dear L, I remember, when I was a kid my uncle used to come to my little corner-room-lab and ask “What’s the current project?”. I would probably answer somthing like, “A blinking light, but blinks slower if it rains”. I miss that effort that used to go into making…

Distractions

Dear L, Once travelling from San Francisco in 2014, I ended up waiting in Dubai airport for about 18 hours. The first thing I did was firing up my computer and wrote computer code until the battery ran out. Then I moved to my tablet, and started reading magazines on…

Dark Matter

Dear L, After trying to write this letter about three times, I gave up. I realised, contrary to what I believed, neither can I manage to convey the elegance of modern theory of gravity [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity] in form of a piece of text in an…