Q: 研究・仕事の内容を簡単に教えてください / What kind of research or work are you doing? A: I am doctoral candidate in the University of Tokyo. My research area is Astrophysics. More specifically, Gravitational-Waves detection and data analysis. Japan operates one of the three Gravitational-wave detectors in the world. This was the primary reason why I chose to Japan for my higher studies and research. The reason for selecting Tokyo as the destination was my university. The research group I am working with here is one of the best groups for my research field. And besides, Tokyo is a nice place to live! Q: 研究・仕事の内容を簡単に教えてください / What kind of research or work are you doing? A: Principally, my research boils down to data-analysis. Unlike the usual case though, the data we analyse comes from the cosmos. Actually, from the merger of massive compactly packed objects called Black Holes. When these really heavy merge, they alter the very fabric of spacetime. When this happens, a gravitational wave is generated an...
In the past few months, three personalities I had grown looking up to over the year, have started their journey towards the heavenly abode, the latest departure happening just the last week. All the three occasions of the news had felt out of the blue. It is not that I had been exceedingly close to any of them, nonetheless, brief touches of their presence in my life had made in such sublime manner that it would hardly be possible otherwise now. It is especially the distant figures such as these that we are prone to assume a constant in our lives. We meet and come across a plethora of people in our life times, yet it is often the transient moments that leave a lasting impression, amplified more so when the impermanence of it all suddenly decides to make itself known. I am grateful that, in varying degree of acquaintance, I had the opportunity to know Mr. Emmanuel Robin, Dr. N Rathnasree and Prof. T Padmanabhan. These succinct lines here are an amateur effort to pay some tribute to them....