It has been more than 4 months since I have written something on this blog. My apologies. I was preparing for Ph.D. admissions in the month of May. I joined Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay for my Ph.D. program. The last 2 months were packed with course work…
Planetary Boundaries and Sustainable Development Goals: Our Rescue Tools
I recently came across an interesting research paper wherein group researchers proposed a novel concept of Planetary Boundaries. I was so fascinated to know about it that I decided to share with you all. Since the topic is vast and a bit technical, I will try to keep my…
Andhra Challenges Solar PPA Tariffs
While the Government of India is pushing for the adoption of several renewable energy technologies across different domains of application, it looks like newly formed Andhra Pradesh state government has something different on its agenda. Andhra Pradesh government led by Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has issued…
Management of Antimony Containing Solar PV Glass
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…