Note: This was originally posted on 17 December 2004.
Hello, there! Welcome to my blog of small things.
Right now, things that interest me professionally happen to be small: microstructures in materials, and this blog is largely about them. You will, therefore, find thoughts, opinion, commentary, speculations, and yes, rants on whatever I find interesting in the science of microstructures. Given my research interests, there will be a bias towards modelling and simulations.
Since I am an academic, there will naturally be some stuff on doing science, research and teaching, and especially on being an academic in India. There will also be, when appropriate, some posts on what we all affectionately call The Institute : Indian Institute of Science.
As Paul Graham states in this memorable essay, I too find that when I put my thoughts down in writing, things become clearer to me. So, you see, the main reason for this blog is purely personal (did I hear someone mutter “navel-gazing”?). Having said that, I do want to make sure that what I say is sensible, even to those who happen to just visit this blog (perhaps by accident). So, I promise to do my best to write clearly, coherently and convincingly.
Enough of this for now! Let's get on with it!
Update (13 April 2005): The content here is an import (cross-posting) of some (only some) of the posts I made (and continue to make) over at my blog hosted on our Department's server. So, datestamps here may not be accurate (though I will try to keep to the original date stamps; for example, I moved this post here only today, but it was posted on 17 December 2004). I will keep moving some of the posts that are already there to this location over the next few days; after this job is done, posting must be almost simultaneous.
The reason I have here a copy is that I now have some sense of permanence; on a more practical level, I also find it much easier to manage my blog at blogger.
