Chip Internals
Chips: Why is there a shortage?

Chips: Why is there a shortage?

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Why is the Silicon Chips Supply Chain getting disrupted? “Today, humanity fabricates 1,000 times more transistors annually than the entire world grows grains of wheat and rice combined”  Covid-19 Pandemic has affected the world in umpteen ways and the chip industry is also affected in many different ways that has led to shortages of parts for all kinds of manufacturers automotive, phone makers, washing machines, airplanes.  In today’s world it is very difficult to find a product without a microchip….

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Excerpts from History: Then and Now

Excerpts from History: Then and Now

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“He diagnosed the disease as Influenza. But he has never seen Influenza like this. This was violent, rapid in its progress through the body, sometimes lethal. This Influenza killed. Soon dozens of his patients – the strongest, the healthiest, the most robust people in the county – were struck down as suddenly as if they had been shot”   “All Influenza viruses mutate constantly”   “On September 27, the day before the parade, hospitals admitted 200 people sufferings from Influenza….

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Lali - A Short Story
Lali – A Short Story

Lali – A Short Story

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Lali was about 6 months old and Bula’s father was telling him it’s time to let go Lali. Bula’s family had a cow and it gave birth to a calf and like any young one she was adorable. He thought that evolution does this is on purpose as the young one needs lots of support while growing up and by default one is adorable. Lali was full of energy and if one sets her free she will be jumping around,…

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My Gillette - 20 years old
Gillette Mach3: A Product Development Perspective

Gillette Mach3: A Product Development Perspective

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My Gillette Mach 3 I remember when I was in class 10th which was the year 2000 I had got enough of facial hair that I was using scissors to trim. Most of my Arunachalee local friends didn’t have that issue, some genes at play :). Probably in that year itself my father got me a razor Gillette Mach 3 and it is the same razor that I am still using in the year 2021 and will continue to do…

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Jagat Seth or Banker of the World

Jagat Seth or Banker of the World

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The Beginnings Indian history has many stories and that of the Jagat Seth one of the most interesting with many twists and turns.  Hiranand Sahu was a jeweller turned money lender from Nagaur, Rajasthan from the Gailarha family of the tribe of Oswals, who moved to Patna in search of better prospects around 1650. He started as a banker and trader of Saltpetre. Patna and a neighboring town Chapra were the center for the refining of Saltpetre, an essential ingredient…

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How I lost my capital on DHFL Investment?

How I lost my capital on DHFL Investment?

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My Initial Investment It was September 2018 that I made my first investment of 80 shares in Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL) at a rate of 409.55 per share. I bought another 100 shares over the period from September 2018 and January 2019 at an overall average of 309.16 for all the 180 shares which makes the investment 55648 worth of my hard earned money. The shares had fallen by about 42% on bond default concerns. I assumed that…

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The Color of Skin

The Color of Skin

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The Color of Skin is a work of fiction . Names, characters, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental “Kaala hua to kya hua, Krishna bhagwan bhi to kaale the”  “What’s so big deal if he is dark, even God Krishna was dark” Amit used wonder why his blackness was always a discussion point. This…

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India Technology and History – A perspective

India Technology and History – A perspective

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Why was the knowledge was lost? Indian subcontinent has had a civilization for thousands of years and when we look at the remains of Indus Valley civilization there seems to be existence metropolis and intercontinental trade. There were cities like Mohenjo Daro, Harappa, Lothal that had drainage systems which can rival any of the current cities of India. Today a day of rain can flood any modern city in India whereas Indus Valley civilization used floods for their benefit. Why…

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Book Review: The Body – A Guide for the Occupants

Book Review: The Body – A Guide for the Occupants

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The Body – A Guide for the occupants is written by Bill Bryson and published in 2020. This is second book of Bryson that I had a chance to read. The other one was A Walk in the woods which was about the celebrated Appalachian trail. I have few others already on my TBR list. Here is a post that I wrote sometime back on a similar topic. I think everyone would agree that human body after millions of years…

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Lying inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way, this Herbig–Haro object is a turbulent birthing ground for new stars in a region known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex, located 1,350 light-years away.
Ryugu and Bennu – Near Earth Objects Visited in 2020

Ryugu and Bennu – Near Earth Objects Visited in 2020

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Ryugu and Bennu are asteroids that are part of many of the Near Earth Objects. Many space organizations of the world are monitoring the orbits of bunch of Near Earth Objects in order to calculate if their path will cross with earth or if they are on the collision path. NASA’s JPL has a Centre for Near Earth Object Studies that is computing asteroid and comet orbits and their odds of Earth impact. Lets looks at these two asteroids. Recently…

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Boeing 737 Max
Boeing and it’s 737 Max Conundrum

Boeing and it’s 737 Max Conundrum

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Airline Industry Overview Commercial Airplane manufacturing industry is mostly a duopoly between Boeing and Airbus for many years now after lot of consolidation that happened. Erstwhile USSR had Antonov and recently Chinese company Comac has been trying to develop C-919. But largely the duopoly has existed and both the firms wants the status quo. There are other aircraft companies in the smaller aircrafts Bombardier, Pilatus, Cessna, Dassault,Fokker, Gulfstream, Embraer and other. The markets they play in are different. Airbus had…

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What’s up? UPSC?

What’s up? UPSC?

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UPSC – A history Official UPSC website has a brief history and it is clearly seen that genesis of civil servants in India has colonial hangover like many other government systems. Initially, the board of directors of East India Company nominated the candidates and they were trained in Haileybury College in London. Later after Lord Macaulay’s report merit based modern Civil Service in India was introduced in 1854. For a long time exams were conducted only in London and eligible…

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Minsk Connection in Bangalore

Minsk Connection in Bangalore

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History of Twin Cities Belarus and Minsk has been in the news due to widespread unrest due the re-election of Alexander Lukashenko who has been the President of the country from the day the position was instated about 26 years ago on 20th July 1994. Lukashenko is sometimes called Last Dictator of Europe by many european journalists due to his authoritarian rule. Minsk being the Capital city was also in the news recently. Minsk was in the back of my…

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Egon sketched this drawing of his dying Edith Schiele as he lay dying himself of Influenza in 1918
Indian Dispatches from 1918 Pandemic

Indian Dispatches from 1918 Pandemic

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1918 Pandemic Great Influenza 1918 was the year of the great influenza which spread all over the world leading to estimated death of 50 million people worldwide and of this the country that was most affected was India that had alteast one-fifth of this death toll. In the history of world of pandemics there are only two which have taken more lives than this pandemic. The plague of Justinian that lasted for fifty years around AD 542 killed 100 million…

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Teardown of a Fisher Price Toy CGM35

Teardown of a Fisher Price Toy CGM35

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Toy Industry Mattel owns Fisher Price and if you go to a toy shop or online the products are mostly from this company if one needs a good quality options. All others are kind of knock off of the product from there and its very easy to see a quality difference. Whatever the quality of product all products are mostly “Made In China” probably 95% of them. Are these really complicated ones and does it need lot of R&D, the…

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