Team Lunch at Bengal Chamber

October 2020

After about six months of the lockdown in 2020, the IT team wanted to meet up. We decided to have a team lunch that day and landed up at our old haunt, The Bengal Chamber. Earlier when our offices were near Gilander House, we used to come to this place frequently. All my direct reports […]

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Khirai Flower Valley : Panskura, West Bengal

March 2020

This is a great place for a one-day visit in the months of December, January or February. Panskura is located around 100 kilometres from Kolkata and other than the last 10 kilometres, the entire route is on good 4-lane highway(busy though). One can also take the train to reach the flower valley. Instead of getting […]

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Sonar Bangla Resort, Taki

July 2019

I visited Taki in June this year along with a couple of colleagues of mine. We drove down from Kolkata. We started around six and were at the resort by 9:30 am. The roads are single carriage way for most of the route, but since its close by it was not such a big deal. […]

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Standard Chartered-Mumbai Marathon 2015

July 2019

I ran the Mumbai Half-Marathon in 2015. Though it was not planned, but circumstances landed me with a nomination and by the time I realised, it was too late to back out. My workplace(Omniactives) had a tie-up with an NGO and they were sponsoring the Dream Run nominations for the Standard Chartered- Mumbai Marathon in […]

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Google Sheets Mail Merge : Advanced

February 2019

Introduction Last year, during Christmas, I was looking out for an easy to use script to send out Personalised e-Cards using the power of Google. But unfortunately I could not find a readily available solution. A few solutions were available but they were not free or not ready-to-use. So I just looked at the Google […]

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Instructable : Temperature Logger

February 2019

I have been wanting to document this instructable for quite a while. I finished the first prototype around 2 years ago and have made a few more full-fledged loggers since then. They are working properly in real life situations for more than a year now. This gives me the confidence to share the project on […]

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West Lodge Bungalow, Mahabaleshwar

February 2019

Booking Experience I visited Mahabaleshwar with a few of my friends recently. We made an impromptu plan and then started looking around  for places to stay in the hill station. Since the dates were decided on a short notice and it being a holiday season, most of the places were either booked or too costly. […]

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Surprising winner : OnePlus

February 2019

For the first time since they were launched in India, OnePlus phones have become the highest selling in the above Rs. 30,000 category. They are selling more than Apple and Samsung. One of the reasons why this is surprising is they have a very small as spend as compared to these Giants. The phones provide […]

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Bike chain maintenance

February 2019

Motorcycle chains are an important part of the bike both from the perspective of performance and safety. But more often than not they are ignored. And the only maintenance they get is (if at all) lubrication when the mechanic feels like it. Any bike chain needs three things. Cleaning Lubrication Tightening The performance bikes need […]

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NodeMCU

A nodeMCU is the cheapest and the smallest IoT device which you can buy. It features a fast processor, ample I/O pins and a WiFi connection. It also has an inbuilt regulator so you are good to go with voltages upto 12v. The device has an micro USB connector as well. This is helpful as […]

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