Jun 7, 2021Killing A DreamThere are many ways of killing a dream You can tie it To heavy boulders of reality Push it down the Ark And watch it drown down the sea of despair Or you can take a dagger Tempered over fire Fueled by unrealistic expectations And stab right through its breathing beating human heart Or you may invite it to a buffet With desires, aspirations, hope, longings and yearnings And poison the dishes with oblivionPoem1 min readPoem1 min read
Aug 25, 2020GSoC Chronicles — Mightier than SSDThis week the work mainly focussed on training and deploying the object detection model for images and videos. This blog aims to document how exactly this has been implemented and all the things that I learned during this phase. Firstly, we have a gentle introduction to the metrics associated with…Object Detection9 min readObject Detection9 min read
Aug 18, 2020GSoC Chronicles — commit the CRNN cometh the TextThis week the work mainly focussed on creating REST APIs for Text Extraction from images and videos and this blog aims to document how exactly this has been implemented, all the things learned in the process, and what can be improved in the future. Overview Scene text is the text that…Text Detection9 min readText Detection9 min read
Jun 27, 2020GSoC Chronicles — Best Kept CodeThe purpose of this blog is to document the work that I have done in Poor Man’s Rekognition project at CCExtractor in the first two weeks of Google Summer of Code. (TLDR? In the end.) The work that has been done in these two weeks primarily focuses on improving the…Gsoc9 min readGsoc9 min read
Jun 14, 2020GSoC Chronicles — Only Time will TellThe first phase of Google Summer of Code, i.e. the community bonding period started off with discussion with my mentor(Amit Kumar) on the changes that had to be made to my proposal — things that had to be added, things that had to be removed and the things that had…Gsoc4 min readGsoc4 min read
May 31, 2020GSoC ChroniclesOkay. So, first things first. I MADE IT! Yes, I understand that the Google Summer of Code is not supposed to be a competition. Yes, I know that just because hundreds of thousands of students across the globe apply for the program every year and only around a thousand are…Gsoc3 min readGsoc3 min read
Jun 10, 2018A Love SongI Love you like criminal loves clues Love you like Hitler loved Jews I want you like ISIS wants peace want you like EU wants Greece I love you like Trump loves immigrants love you like Yogi loves Muslims I need you like Cherrapunji needs rain need you like Python needs main() I love you like Egyptians love Ramos love you like Gamora loved Thanos I miss you like India misses British miss you like millennials miss MukeshLove1 min readLove1 min read
Feb 27, 2018Living in the momentThere’s only here There’s only me For everything’s As frozen as can be A blink of the eye And everything will change The world as we know it Will turn strange There’s only here There’s only me The present is All that I can see What’s in the past I don’t care To look into the future I won’t dare There’s only here There’s only me From dreams and nightmares A mind that’s free Closing my eyes to the stars In the moonlight as I lay Lost in the silence With no words to sayPoetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Jan 25, 2018West Bengal - The Rasgulla of IndiaOne hundred years ago, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, a prominent Indian freedom fighter and political guru of Gandhiji said “What Bengal thinks today, Rest of India will think tomorrow.” Truer words have never been said, ladies and gentlemen. …India2 min readIndia2 min read
Dec 20, 2017Colours of HappinessSmile. Smile, as you cuddle the little baby whose chubby cheeks are as red as strawberry. Stare. Stare at the spectacular sunset as the orange ball of fire send its fiery kiss to the night. Sing. Sing along the golden canary perched on boughs of freedom. Songs of Laughter. Songs of…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
