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The Well of Milk
During the reign of Akbar, the most famous Mughal emperor in India’s history, many visitors traveled far and wide to witness ‘The Nine Gems’; the nine intellectually gifted courtiers that Akbar had hand-picked to run the different facets of his empire’s affairs. One such visitor decided to challenge the court one day and asked Akbar…
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The Prince and The Dancer
I was a scribe in the Maharaja’s palace when the rumors started. I heard it from the lady who cleaned out the Prince’s quarters every morning, who reported having found a stray pearl under his sheets. This on its own didn’t warrant the extraordinary rumors; the Prince was infamous for his sexual promiscuity, but in…
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The Point of Programming
Pointers are the best programming concept I’ve learned in my time at university so far. These little things form the building blocks for a large range of more complex and essential data structures used in contemporary programming, and they do it so nonchalantly, one cannot help but fall slightly in love with how useful they…
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Hello world!
Welcome! This is my first blog post here, so I guess I should start by giving some context on what this is. This isn’t my first blog. Around a year or so ago, I used to write posts semi-regularly for another blog I had started while bored in quarantine. I used Google’s Blogger platform when…