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Articles by Abhishek Pundir
The Hidden Revolution: How AI is Quietly Transforming Small Town America
While tech headlines focus on Silicon Valley giants, a quieter AI revolution is reshaping Main Street America in ways that would surprise most observers. In the small town of Cedar Falls, Iowa, population 40,000, something remarkable is happening. Local bakery owner Sarah Chen opens her shop each morning to find her ovens already preheated, her inventory automatically ordered, and her daily production schedule optimized for maximum efficiency.
Your Brain, But Rewired: Productivity Hacks from Cognitive Science That Actually Work
Press enter or click to view image in full size We’ve all been there — staring at our to-do lists, drowning in browser tabs, and wondering why our brains seem to work against us when we need focus most. The traditional productivity advice of “just try harder” or “eliminate all distractions” misses a crucial point: our brains aren’t designed for the modern world’s demands. But here’s the good news.
How Financial Markets Secretly Shape Your Everyday Life
Press enter or click to view image in full size If you’ve ever wondered why your grocery bill goes up, why your bank hikes loan rates, or why your retirement savings suddenly look healthier (or worse) — the answer often lies in financial markets. They’re not just playgrounds for traders in fancy suits. They’re the nervous system of the economy, quietly deciding how money flows, how businesses grow, and how stable your financial life feels. Why Should You Care About Financial Markets?
Everything Developers Need to Know About the 16 KB Page Size Shift
Have you ever updated your Android app to support the latest SDK, followed every best practice from a Google I/O talk, and still had a nagging feeling that something was off? Maybe a new app on a high-end device felt slightly sluggish, or a camera launch wasn't as instant as it should be. It's the subtle friction we, as developers, are trained to ignore - until we can't. Well, the era of ignoring that friction is over.
Google Like a Pro: Unleashing the Full Power of the Web’s Foremost Search Engine
Becoming proficient at web searching is a crucial skill, impacting your efficiency and productivity, whether you’re a software developer or an online learner. This guide will help you understand how Google search works and how to craft better queries, drawing on various search operators and critical thinking skills. It’s important to understand that when you search, you’re not searching the entire web directly, but rather Google’s index of the web.
Wait, What?! Why Does 0! = 1? (And Why Your Math Teacher Wasn’t Lying)
Okay, let's be real here. You're probably reading this because you stumbled across the bizarre mathematical fact that 0! = 1 and thought, "That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever." I mean, how can you multiply nothing and get something? It's like saying you can clap with one hand and somehow make noise. But stick with me, because this isn't just some arbitrary rule that mathematicians made up because they were bored on a Tuesday afternoon.
Preparing Your Android App for 16KB Page Size
“If you’re an Android developer who thinks memory management is just for C++ nerds, think again. Android 15 is redefining what’s under the hood.” — Yasin Reski, Android Dev Summit With Android 15, Google introduces native support for 16KB memory pages, a significant shift from the long-standing 4KB default.
Jetpack Compose: Loading image using Coil
Efficient image loading is a cornerstone of modern Android app development. With Jetpack Compose revolutionising UI design, integrating a robust image loading library has become essential. Enter Coil (Coroutine Image Loader), a Kotlin-first library that seamlessly blends with Compose’s declarative paradigm. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll delve deep into leveraging Coil within Jetpack Compose, exploring its features, best practices, and advanced configurations.
Google I/O 2025: Everything You Need to Know About the AI-Powered Future
Google I/O 2025 was a landmark event, showcasing Google’s deep integration of artificial intelligence across its ecosystem. From transformative AI models to innovative hardware, the announcements signal a future where AI is central to our digital experiences. At the heart of Google’s AI advancements is Gemini 2.5, the latest iteration of its AI assistant. This model introduces “Deep Think,” an enhanced reasoning mode designed for complex tasks.
10 Mistakes That Are Quietly Stealing Your Dream Life
We all want to live a life that feels meaningful — the kind where you’re excited to wake up every morning, chasing something bigger than yourself. But if you’re anything like me, you’ve realised that most people never get there. Not because they’re not smart enough or don’t work hard. But because they keep falling into the same traps, over and over again. Here are 10 silent mistakes I’ve seen (and made) that keep people stuck in lives they don’t love.
Book review | The last waltz of reason: Rohit Prasad articulates a strong thesis underpinned by his intellectual conviction in a modernist trope - history forming and unravelling in a linear flow governed by an order - Telegraph India
Rohit Prasad articulates a strong thesis underpinned by his intellectual conviction in a modernist trope — history forming and unravelling in a linear flow governed by an order Abhishek Pundir Published 22.03.24, 12:33 PM Representational image Getty Images Book: THE LAST DANCE OF RATIONALITY: MAKING SENSE OF AN UNRAVELLING WORLD ORDER Author: Rohit Prasad Published by: Hachette Price: Rs 799 In an ever-changing world mired in complex power relations, invested in newer technologies reducing...
From where Orwell left off
Book: BEASTS OF ENGLAND Author: Adam Biles Published by: Picador Price: Rs 599 This book offers a powerful allegory for these times of global crisis marked by economic inequalities, political manoeuvring, and geopolitics that paralyse all that was best conceived in the values of social welfare and egalitarianism, both by the Right and the Left. It is a fable for our times — generations wearied by hopelessness and inaction in the face of the mighty State.
Against received ideas
Book: ON BEING INDIAN: THE ORGANIC INTELLECTUAL, MYSTICAL POETRY, AND LINEAGES OF INDIAN RATIONALISM Author: Amit Chaudhuri Publication: Westland Price: Rs 399 At a time when burgeoning fascist forces are a threat to India and Indianness, when dissent against the government is being rebranded as ‘anti-national activity’, when the citizenship status — not merely loyalties — of Muslim minorities is held suspect, Amit Chaudhuri revisits the question of ‘being Indian’ in the background of the...
Amrita Pritam: A provocative tapestry of love, longing, and liberation
Much before one actually sits down to read her, the image of Amrita Pritam that emerges in one’s mind’s eye is of a woman who made difficult and progressive life choices; a larger-than-life persona who lived life on her own terms.
It’s a matter of chance
Books: THE COINCIDENCE PLOT Author: Anil Menon Published by: Simon & Schuster Price: Rs. 599 What constitutes a coincidence? An occurrence that defies the general rules of causality and relatedness? Everyone of us can relate to at least one such incident that seems oddly impossible to have occurred. The Coincidence Plot offers a meditation on coincidence and on god. For believers, discovering coincidences is to discover god’s grand plan.
The Long and Short of it'
Devanura pins down the ideology that has remained constant in the long history of RSS and calls for action on the part of those who want to save secular India. The booklet lays bare the vile nature of RSS amidst the propaganda of the far right to establish its credentials in the freedom struggle and sworn commitment to the constitution of India. Devanura in his adolescence was swayed by the RSS’s rhetoric of ‘all Hindus being equal’ and misapprehended it as a Casteless organisation.
Mapping a writer’s mind
Vineet Gill’s book is neither a conventional biography nor an attempt to excavate biographical details of Nirmal Verma’s life from his published works. It reconstructs the life of an influential writer through views, opinions, controversies, and literary scuffles. It maps an artist’s mind through its multifarious wanderings and longings to carve out a place called “home” in his writings.
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