For many years, solar PV panels are enjoying the status of being environment-friendly. Lot has been written about their all-around clean-and-green characteristics. However, with the research and development, substances which are not so environment-friendly are being used in panel manufacturing over the last few years. Hence, their secure and…
Global Grid: All You Need To Know
I first came across the concept of a global grid during my diploma days. Those were the days when the then head of the department Mr Bhosale sir used to teach us transmission and distribution of electrical energy for hours and hours. Bhosale sirs teaching style was so appealing…
Story of My Virtual Mumbai City From Cities Skylines
I have been playing Cities Skylines for more than 2 years. Like most of the Cities players, I started with Sim City and switched to Cities: Skylines because of its customization features. The mods, scenarios, maps, assets are fabulous. The inventory of assets and mods have grown rapidly over…
NVIDIA GauGAN: Convert your painting into images!
On March 18, 2019, NVIDIA, technology-based company introduced AI enabled software called GauGAN which converts your dumb paintings into photorealistic images. A few minutes ago, their video popped on my Youtube homepage. The idea is so cool that I couldn’t resist me from sharing it with all of you….
Google Vs DuckDuckGo
Diploma आणि Degreeला असताना मी ज्या कारणासाठी Google वापरत नव्हतो त्या बद्दल आज मी लिहिणार आहे. सगळे मित्र Android मोबाईल वापरत असताना मी Windows फोन वापरायचो. अँड्रॉइड फोनवर आपल्या डेटाच्या गूपनीयतेबाबत माझ्या मनात अफाट शंका होत्या. पण शेवटी एकेदिवशी मलासुद्धा Androidला shift व्हावं लागलं. याचे मुख्य कारण म्हणजे…
Talks on ‘Section 377’ and ‘Data Privacy’ at IIT Bombay
The year 2019 has been very delightful for me. While the first week was full of discussions with my friends from the solar fraternity, the second week was indeed more enlightening. I got an opportunity to attend 3 talks and 1 panel discussion on different socio-technical topics. The…
Panel Discussion on E-waste Management at IIT Bombay
A panel discussion on E-waste was organized at Abhyuday; Annual Social Festival of IIT Bombay. Sandip Chatterjee (Director and scientist, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India) and Deepali Sinha (Managing Director at Sofies India, Ex-consultant at UNEP) participated in debate whereas Nidhi Jamwal (Independent environmentalist…
Critique of and Alternatives to Extractive Imagination of Artificial Intelligence
A Talk by Dr Anupam Guha on ‘What is to be done? Critique of and alternatives to extractive imagination of AI’ was organized by the Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay on 11 January 2019. Anupam Guha is a computer scientist, working on Artificial Intelligence and…
Who Will Cry When You Die? My favorite quotes
Last week, I completed this wonderful book named ‘Who will cry when you die’ by Robin Sharma. The book is famous among frequent readers and has inspired millions of people in the world. Now that I have read it, I regret for not picking it up in…
Future water risks in Indian solar sector
Few days back, I got a chance to attend a webinar on ‘Water Risk for India’s Solar Power Sector’. The webinar was organized by ET Energy World and presented by Vinay Rustagi (Managing Director, Bridge To India). After attending webinar, I got to know that water management at…