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Pseudonyms

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:55:53 +0530

A history of how I have evaded my own privacy on the internet, and maybe some of my sense of self as well.

Totalitarian

Sun, 24 May 2026 12:49:55 +0530

अपने लड़के को भी लड़की की तरह पाला है इन लोगों नें। मुझे इस घर से बे-रोक-टोक या थोड़ी मगर अतिरिक्त से कहीं ज़्यादा रोक-टोक के साथ ३ km दूर के कॉलेज भी जाने दिया गया इसे भी मैं गनीमत समझूंगा। इस सब के बाद भी मैं वो बन गया हूँ जो मैं हूँ (moderately successful “आदमी “) इसे देख कर यही कहा जाएगा की कुदरत से आप नहीं लड़ सकते। कुदरत अपना रुख लेगी, और उम्मीद है की आप बेहरहमी से रौंधे जाएंगे।

Pentax DL-9000 : The Scamera

Sun, 24 May 2026 11:48:22 +0530

The Pentax DL9000, also sold under other names was a plastic body, plastic lens, fixed focus camera with a SLR camera like appearance and unverifiable unrealistic claims pasted on as stickers onto its body. This is a collection of Pentax DL9000 listings I’ve found on my hunt for a SLR camera.

Bad Financial Decision on 4 Wheels

Wed, 13 May 2026 20:59:02 +0530

My plans/ideation resto-modding a Maruti Suzuki Esteem.

A baleno (the real one made before 2006) would be a simultaneous better but worse financial decision

Maps of Delhi - Transit

Wed, 06 May 2026 09:55:55 +0530

Maps of Delhi - Transit

Metro, roads, DTC getting around..

A map of DTC bus routes

This map of DTC bus routes was created in the style of a metro map, now taken down on the web I had to do a lot of digging to find it. Created by Sudipto Ghosh and Shimonti Sinha of Citywise in 2016. The project seems to have wrapped up by 2018.

Maps of Delhi - Urban

Wed, 06 May 2026 09:55:55 +0530

A collection of maps of urban Delhi I've collected over my internet rabbitholeing on the websites of Delhi Development Authority and Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

Leather Notebook Cover

Mon, 04 May 2026 13:37:09 +0530

The real thing, what follows is largely a product of web browsing and AI prompts.

Real leather on a spiral notebook is some crazy shit, now when I think about it, those black luxor notebooks have always kind of tried to emulate a leather finish on their black plastic covers.

verysmallmouse

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:54:47 +0530

A crappy 3D pritned tiny mouse with the internals of a Logitech M185(?)

Ripped off from other people, with 0 respect for their copyrights.

Tyvek Wallet

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:08:03 +0530

An obituary for my wallet

Tyvek is one of the coolest materials I’ve worked with. It’s a fibrous sheet of plastic that by itself it doesn’t feel like much, but when made into a wallet seems to defy the rules of physics. I carried one such Tyvek wallet for over a year. The wallet was completely made by hand and all you need to make one is a sheet of Tyvek, a trusty utility blade (that later found its place inside a concealed pocket in the wallet), a ruler and some high viscosity CA glue.

baghookthing

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:35:02 +0530

A backpack holder that can hold small backpacks (like the Quechua 25L Pack I use) onto shelfs or tabletops upto 25mm thick.

In my testing it took up to 5kgs. I have printed it in PLA with 8 wall lines.

Ender 3

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:03:49 +0530

An Ender 3 is the rite of passage for all 3D Printing enthusiasts. Yes a Bambu lab may be refined, convenient and clean but to become the ultimate hobbyist and maker one must burn their hands cleaning the clogged extruder of an Ender 3. One must blow more money on repairs than the actual cost of the printer in order to get it running.

परछत्ती/Parchatti

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:55:19 +0530

arjun - 28/07/2025, 11:55

what do you guys call this place ?

we call it parchatti

amanakeet - 01/08/2025, 08:14

Bukhari/Alyaa

CPT

Sun, 04 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

An entry from my journal, written in a midnight writers unblock initiated by Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena

कल पेपर है। और कल चंद मिनटों में आ जाएगा।

Unregulated

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:34:02 +0530

I like to support the untaxed, unregulated part of the economy. I don’t haggle with Rikshawalas. They aren’t technically unregulated, they are self regulating. They are perfect order within the lack of order. Nobody decided their prices, nobody made their laws. They operate a thin plane above supply and demand. Ethics and regulations when they exist are based on their morality. They have license plates, but who’s checking ?! Even when anarchy befalls, banks, governments and their issued tokens become obsolete I bet Rikshawalas would still be roaming on their screeching whining rikshaws, charged with stolen electricity. [1] [2]

चर्चा

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 10:08:21 +0530

बात होती है तो केवल उसकी जो स्पष्ट रूप से सभी की इंद्रियों में पंजिकृत ^[1] हो। तापमान, वायु का रुख, कुत्तों का भौंकना, विविद्ध प्रकार की गंधें वगैरा इस वार्तालाप के लिए उत्तम विष्य हैं। अपने निजी दर्षन इस चर्चा में न ही लायें तो अच्छा है। मालूम नहीं कब कोई छोटी सी टिप्पणी या राय आऐगी और माहौल को एक तनाव से भर देगी। एसा तनाव जो स्वयं को शंका के घेरे में दाल देगा, कि कहीं आप ही तो किसी प्रकार के अधर्मी नहीं?

Aloo Tikki

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 11:19:53 +0530

Its the conflicting flavours, red caramelized chutney with its heavy spicy taste and the green, sour tangy refreshing coriander chutney. The hot tikki just out of the wok, straight into some chilled yoghurt. A contrast of temperature. The depth and texture of the brown deep fried tikki being contrasted by the homogenous white yoghurt. On top it may be graced by a salad dressing, of chopped onions, cabbage and pomegranate further producing opposition to the deep fried carbohydrates of the tikki.

Music Reaction Channels

Sun, 25 Jun 2023 18:33:38 +0530

In the recent years, music reaction channels on YouTube have become quite a thing. These channels mainly react to forms of alternative music such as rock, metal and other genres that like to go with the “its not pop music” identity.

Make Youtube Distraction Free

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 14:05:25 +0530

Over the years, it has become increasingly hard to focus on the web. With websites and serveices now being designed to make you shuttle from one red dot to another, it has become necessary for us users to preserve our integrities as users and to not become consumers. This article will guide you to removing all sorts of distractions from YouTube, a popular video sharing website which houses a library of videos ranging from casual entertainment to perhaps the best lectures in calculus. For the ones who use this as a tool to study, it is not possible to use the platform while keeping together their focus on what’s important.

Short Video Format

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 13:47:49 +0530

Against the short video format

The short video format is a non consensual, habit forming, freedom infringing video format that destroys the users attention span. It takes away the users right to consent, delivers them trivial information in bite sized bits of novelty along with a hit of hormones.

Casio DB-36 Inverted Display Mod

Fri, 05 May 2023 10:21:20 +0530

I had been meaning to try an inverted display mod on one of my Casio watches, and now finally I had the time and money to get a polarizing filer and do it and see for myself……

New Site

Sun, 30 Apr 2023 17:29:57 +0530

newsite!

using hugo this time.

College

Sat, 28 Jan 2023 17:31:10 +0530

A series of (incoherent) thoughts I have had since joining college.

The curriculum is merely a carcass every student is assigned to drag behind them for the next four years of their life. Even the administration knows this, and they don’t put too much effort into not letting the world know about it.
Exams and academics only exist to provide a goal to those who don’t have a purpose to live up to (yet).
Extra-curricular activities exist, yet as a curriculum themselves. The creative outlet of extra-curricular activities is just reduced to gaining credentials to add after ones name on their resume. Perhaps a form of totalitarianism, imposed by their political correctness. Giving us the freedom to have such collectives yet also prioritizing our careers and placements. Making it much harder to rebel against them. It is easy to rebel against tyranny but tough to rebel against the conformism enforced by the very freedom of choice. It is tough to realise when some granted freedoms of extra-curricular activities become the slaveries of imposed curriculum. This brings me to the question, shall we ever be truly free ? I tried to fit in, in fact if it has been noticed this webpage was reskinned (shall I say stripped of skin, or soul). For the purposes of looking more professional, to be more squared for professional life I had butchered my own creativity. Now that I have realised the status quo, I am no longer afraid of offending people by merely being not squared. This is some paranoia

Post Jee Feels

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:31:18 +0530

So my first JEE attempt is complete and now I am here, writing a blog post in a (sucessfull) attempt of relaxing and chilling for one day in what seems like months since I have walked without a head full of stress. This I belive must be my reward. The only proof that I need to strengthen this belife is that today, ladies and gentlemen is the day when the south western monsoon finally arrived here in Delhi.

Wearing A Mechanical Watch

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:30:54 +0530

This article was made on my old blog on 17 February 2022.
Having worn almost all sorts of watches, around a month ago I finally decided to make the leap to a mechanical watch. This leap of mine which truly felt like a leap of faith in the beginning, was a lot more reliable than I had expected it to be.

Parantha Teir List

Sun, 06 Feb 2022 17:31:03 +0530

This post was originally published on my blogger blog on 6 February 2022. This is a revised version of that post.

The Only Day Your Dad Will Ever Ask You To Watch TV

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 17:30:09 +0530

This post was originally published on 27 January 2022 on my old blog. This is a revised version of the post.