2022 starts… 2022 has started… And what a start!
One of my weekly staple manga “Dr. Stone” has ended after 232 chapters on 6th March this year. It was a great run for the last 5 years or so. I tried to summarize the manga in this post years ago. It was that and more, touching geoscience, food science, computer science, and even, rocket science towards the end. The last few chapters tied up the loose ends with an incredible twist. What a reveal! What an ending! What a sci-fi story at the very heart of it! Incredible.
One of the blogs that I follow is ending this month. More precisely, Loren Shure (author of the blog) is retiring from MathWorks at the end of this month. I feel like I have been following her MATLAB blog since my undergraduate days. Though, that might not be possible on grounds of reality. But it must definitely be somewhere between 10-15 years that I have been regularly following her blog. Her posts were fun to read, easy to follow and overall, taught something new, always! The same style showed in her YouTube Live Stream videos that she hosted a few times in the last year. Apparently a dozen, according to this playlist!
Given the imminent end-of-the-world, let us end this post with a great Sher from Dr. Nawaaz Deobandi.
दिए की लौ ने ऐसी बद्दुआ की
हवा बिखरी पड़ी है रास्तों में
Diye ki lau ne aisi baddua ki
Hawa bikhri padi hai raaston mein
The lamp’s flame has put such a curse
That the air lies scattered on the roads
–नवाज़ देवबंदी (Nawaaz Deobandi)
What a collection of words! What a Sher! Waah!! WAAH!!!
