Vivek Roy

Ben Nevis. The highest mountain in the British Isles. AllTrails says it’s a hard one. It reminds me of the scene in the show “Chernobyl” when they discovered that the maximum rating on Geiger counters of Diatlov and others who were onsite is 3.6 roentgens per hour but the actual reading was likely to be…

Milton Keynes is derided by many as city of roundabouts, a curious one, concrete cows’ grazing field etc. But the city offers a lot more than its roundabouts. It has some nice parks all around. And in many of the parks, many of which offer free parking (something not to be scoffed at!), one can…

The world is way too random to plan anything long term. When insurance agents send me mails, exhorting me to think about long term plans, all I can do is smirk (and then delete the mails). If anything the year gone by has taught me, is that life is a chaotic process. I am well…

People often envy the life I have lead; they have been fascinated by my story starting from my time in Bangalore to Belgium to Ireland and now to England. I like to think I am well liked, and as I have often mentioned countless times, things may not have always gone my way but I…

This is my take on the entire CAA/NRC protests ongoing in India and what it means to a non-resident Indian in Ireland. Its funny how people fail to realize that countries are imaginary institutions with borders which are blurred at best. The entire concept (and by that I refer to its boundaries) of today’s India…

So after a long break from studies and a lot of immigration woes later, I reached Limerick. Well, my immigration woes are still not over as they made a mistake with my GNIB card and I waiting for a new one. One of the first things that hit me when I reached Ireland was how…

So Mr. Ramgopal Rao put up a long post in Facebook mentioning his reasons for supporting it. It can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/rao.ramgopal/posts/10218188716681820?hc_location=ufi Lets go through it one by one. 1. Many top universities in the world have strong Bachelors programmes and strong Ph.D. programmes. The universities which are running large masters programmes abroad are…

I came across a nice article where they talked about using thermal cameras for detecting water leaks. It instantly reminded me of the project I did as part of a course called Multimedia Technology and Coding. I was given to write an paper on thermal camera and how to use it to detect faults in…

So I came across this article in Times of India today. https://m.timesofindia.com/business/india-business/edu-loans-in-india-shrink-25-in-4-yrs/articleshow/69490291.cms The article is basically a summary of the non-performing assets in the education loan sector of India. As per the article, the highest portion of NPA is in the sub-4 lakh loan. These are the loans that can be given without any collateral.…

And classes resumed, without much of fanfare. Nothing new there, except for the thesis. I have never been so lost in my thesis. Also I had to finish my report about my internship at Nokia Bell Labs. It kind of sucks because we are graded on our internship which means we have to write a…