Author Archives: Soumyanath

Bhangarh Fort: A Date with Ghosts

Posted on December 20, 2025 by Soumyanath

We drove straight from Gurgaon to Bhangarh Fort, bravely merging breakfast with lunch. Somewhere on the highway we stopped for mixed veg paranthas with raita — because if you’re heading to India’s most haunted place, it’s best to go well-fed. … Continue reading →

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Different Tuning Systems of Diatonic Harmonica

Posted on May 18, 2024 by Soumyanath

The diatonic harmonica, celebrated for its distinctive bluesy sound, is traditionally tuned to a major scale, but numerous alternative tuning systems have evolved to cater to different musical styles and player preferences. These tuning systems vary in their note layouts, … Continue reading →

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Playing Dum in C major scale Harmonica

Posted on May 5, 2024 by Soumyanath

A few days ago, I published a notation of the famous Hindi song, Dum Maro Dum. The notation is simple and short. One can easily play in harmonica.  Those of you who have tried to play the Dum Maro Dum … Continue reading →

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Dum Maro Dum

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Soumyanath
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Indian Notation System for Word Processor

Posted on April 18, 2024 by Soumyanath

In today’s computer age, word processors are indispensable tools. Western music relies heavily on symbolic staff notation, which necessitates specialized software for computerized notation. Conversely, Indian notation systems such as Bhatkhande or Rabindrik employ alphabets for notation. Regrettably, the current … Continue reading →

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Missing link of analytics – the human

Posted on June 22, 2022 by Soumyanath

Data analytics can tell us everything from the correlation between adverse weather conditions and profitability to the trends in consumer behavior that fuel the success of a start-up business going to initial public offering (IPO). According to a recent survey … Continue reading →

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Geo-Spatial Analytics with R

Posted on June 19, 2022 by Soumyanath

I got couple of questions about what is R. Well, R is freely available language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques: linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, … Continue reading →

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Of Pickle and Money – Part I

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Soumyanath

Pranati is in very bad mood today. She needs to leave for her office in another half an hour and her cook just phoned to say she won’t be coming.  Great news! Today her boss is coming from Bangalore.  In … Continue reading →

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Harvest your data

Posted on July 3, 2016 by Soumyanath

All of us heard about bitcoin, the new money of digital world that is supposed to become the money of the future. Little do we realize that we ourselves are sitting over a goldmine, a goldmine of data. The companies … Continue reading →

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Auram Field Trial

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Soumyanath

Compressed Earth Blocks are environment friendly alternative to normal bricks. It has better properties than earth fired bricks and does not pollute environment. Automated press can make about 1000 bricks per hour. Automatic controller for the press has to perform … Continue reading →

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