Travel & Photographyall 6 →
Places, roads and photographs.
Praha — My Next Destination is Prague
Exams done, budget tight, city calling. Three and a half days in one of Europe's most beautiful cities.
Kerala Floods & A New Chapter in Magdeburg
The worst floods in a century, then a flight to Germany to start my MS.
Mandaragiri Hill — Basadi Betta
A spontaneous weekend ride from Bangalore to a serene Jain pilgrimage site.
Agrasen ki Baoli — Delhi's Haunted Stepwell
A mid-afternoon detour in Delhi leads us to a 108-step ancient stepwell with a reputation.
Historic Hampi
A Royal Enfield ride to the ruins of the Vijayanagara empire — Hampi on two wheels.
Hello World
Starting from scratch — why I'm here and what this blog is about.
Code & Projectsall 3 →
Project write-ups: how things were built, what broke, what is next.
Jayasree, Part 1: Why Malayalam Deserves a Pen
Animating Malayalam as handwriting, stroke by stroke. Where the idea came from, who got there first, and how this series will unfold.
Jayasree, Part 2: A Letter Is Not a Glyph
Malayalam text is not one-character-one-shape. What HarfBuzz does to it, the dotted-circle trick, and why chillu has two spellings.
Jayasree, Part 3: Teaching a Font to Draw
A font knows what a letter looks like, not how it is written. The stroke recorder, the data model, and the layers that protect hand-made data.