To discern the truth in every thing, by whomsoever spoken, is wisdom.
v 423, Ch. The Possession of Knowledge, Thiruvalluvar’s Thirukural
எப்பொருள்யார்யார்வாய்க் கேட்பினும் அப்பொருள்
குறள் 423, அறிவுடைமை, திருவள்ளுவரின் திருக்குறள்
மெய்ப்பொருள் காண்ப தறிவு.
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A Texas Hill Country Staycation
Just at the beginning of the winter holidays around Christmas, I was trying to find a place to travel with a limited budget. The flight tickets were expensive, so it had to be near Austin. I opened Google Maps and the Airbnb website and looked at the greener areas around Austin. There was this one
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A Note of Thanks
On January 2021, I started my PhD journey with a lot of uncertainties moving to a foreign country for the first time. I was very fortunate to get the opportunity to work with an amazing group of researchers and professors at one of the best universities to work on bridge engineering. In the last four
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AI/ML in Structural Engineering
Anyone who interacted with me two years ago about applications of Machine Learning in Structural Engineering, this is how the conversation would have gone. Why don’t you use Machine Learning in your field? Machine learning needs a lot of data which we don’t have as there are several unique conditions when designing and constructing a
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Vapor Cloud Explosion in a Petrochemical Plant at Jaipur, India
(This paper was written by me as part of the course CE 384T on Blast-Resistant Structural Design by Dr. Eric Williamson in University of Texas at Austin) On the evening of 29th October 2009, a devastating explosion occurred in the petroleum oil lubricants terminal of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) at Jaipur, India. A series of
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மார்கஸ் ஆரேலியஸ் – நீ நீயாக இரு
இந்த பதிவு Freedom In Thought என்னும் YouTube சேனல் வெளியிட்ட விடீயோவின் மொழியாக்கம். Google Translate சேவையின் உதவியோடு மொழிபெயர்த்திருக்கிறேன். இது என்னுடைய சொந்த பதிவு அல்ல. என்றாலும் நான் பார்த்து வியந்த ஒன்று. என்னுடைய கருத்துக்கு ஒன்று பட்டதும் கூட. மூலமுதலான பதிவு: https://freedominthought.com/writings/marcus-aurelius-stop-caring-what-people-think “தியானங்கள்” என்னும் புத்தகத்தில், மார்கஸ் ஆரேலியஸ் கூறினார், “மற்றவர்களைப் பற்றி கவலைப்படுவதில் உங்கள் மீதமுள்ள நேரத்தை வீணாக்காதீர்கள் – அது பொது நலனை பாதிக்காத வரை. பயனுள்ள எதையும்
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A crime scene averted
I vividly remember my first local train experience in Mumbai when I came for admission interview at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2013. Two guys who looked suspicious and carried something which looked like a knife’s handle. It was around 4.30 or 5.00 AM in the morning. They were trying to talk to two
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The man with the Midas-touch to a Rolemodel
On a summer evening in 2010, there was a first cricket match at Dharamshala with the scenic Himalayan mountains behind the beautiful stadium. The game between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Kings XI Punjab (KXI) was inaugurated with the blessings of Dalai Lama. It was a must-win game for CSK to qualify for the semifinal.
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Take care of your Mental Health
Yesterday my neighbour’s husband took his life by himself. While hearing about the incident, I felt that mental health awareness has to increase in our society. I was about to write a post on this, but the news of Sushant’s demise made me write this right now. Often in suicides I hear people seeing things,
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Dhajji-Dewari Masonry
As a Structural Engineer I always try to relate whatever I study by observing the relevance in the real world. One such instance led me to a type of construction which I have learnt. After an arduous trek of 4 hours ascending from 2130m to 2850m above MSL at Triund, Dharamshala, there is a lone
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Moving Load Analysis in ABAQUS
When I was working on the analysis of masonry infilled frame in ABAQUS for my research at IIT Kanpur, a friend of my friend dropped by the office where I used to work and explained me the research problem he was working on. He was working on the stress analysis of a ballastless track for
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