May 174 key skills you need to begin your Data Science journeyI receive at least 2 messages per week, on Linkedin where aspirants ask me what skills are required to make a cut into data science, analytics and machine learning? While I can speak on this topic for hours, below is a short version. …Data Science2 min read
Jan 30Close outrages of a different kindIn this season and era of outrage manufacturing, finally, I am outraged as well. Us tea drinkers have been marginalized for ages now. People making jokes on tea drinkers, funny facebook/twitter posts on chai? “Tag a friend who loves chai”? Racist jokes on creed, caste and color of chai? So…Coffee2 min read
Jan 87 most common Hollywood clichesAny type of smart hacker has to have some relation to “the MIT”. Either he/she was a gold medalist or he dropped out despite having top grades. Hollywood doesn’t know that there are other tech schools in the USA. Every system which the actors try to hack gives only one…Hollywood2 min read
Mar 31, 2019“Demons of Time” comes out on 15th AprilMy next book Demons of Time: Race to the 7th Sunset comes out on this April 15th. This book is different from my previous book Time-Crawlers, because this is a full novel, single story. This book weaves Science Fiction with Fantasy and the story moves at a fast pace, and…Science Fiction2 min read
Jan 4, 2019Seven must-know facts which modern TV-advertisements teach us!If you see some women on the street who have one side of their face having a different skin shade than the other side, don’t think of it as the latest fashion trend. They are actually the result of fairness cream or soap experiments. Cooking oil companies are now making…Satire2 min read
Nov 2, 2018Moon’s rotation“Were you trying to control the moon?” “Not just trying to, I was actually able to.” “Are you sure?” “Yes, at around 23:10 hours, two days back, I stood in my balcony looked at the moon and tried to slow down its rotation. Now if you go to the space agency website and…Telekinesis2 min read
Published in Lit Up·Nov 2, 2018Pickpocketer“This Halloween I am planning to dress-up as Count Dracula.” Robbie declared and spread his arms on the sides with a fake scary motion. “That is so 1968, dude. I will be dressed as ‘Internet disconnected’ sign, that gives the scariest sensation of contemporary times.” Pete tried to mimic the internet…Halloween1 min read
Published in AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine·Aug 12, 2018Are we living inside a video game?While working on one of my Science Fiction stories, I was doing a thought experiment on various ideas and theories which now point towards the fact that we may very well be living inside a video game. That is we are just characters inside a very powerful near-real simulation. Our…Writing4 min read
Published in Lit Up·Jul 13, 2018Don’t go away, pleaseIf I knew it was the last telephone call we would have, I would have said so many more words to you … So many things left unsaid … with whom should I talk now, if not to you? So much more to tell you, about how sweet you are and how beautiful you look Where to put all those thoughts now? … Not on a blog not in a book. The limbo of those unkept promises, those unsatiated desires, so sad, so insipid Wish we would have grown old together in a dream at least like Cobb and Mal did.Poetry1 min read
Published in Lit Up·Jul 12, 2018My EnchantressOh my goddess, your charm has enlightened the world … through your light I see a hope in an otherwise murky life, your beauty is more attractive than the purest gold, in this birth or the next I wish for you as my wife… In these mere words or expressions otherwise, can’t put what I feel for you my enchantress, my blue night, to be with you is my only dream, my only vice, if there is a light at the end of the tunnel, for me, you and only you, are that light …Love1 min read
