Recent books

• Rendezvous with Rama - Goodbye Mr. Clarke

  I am a huge fan of the science fiction genre. Arthur C Clarke is one of my favorite science fiction writers after Isaac Asimov. It saddens me to have learnt that he has passed away. Most people get reminded of “2001: A Space Odyssey” when they hear the name Arthur C Clarke. I get reminded […]

  March 25th, 2008

• All NCERT text books!

  I recently came to know that NCERT was providing all the text books (class 1 - 12) for download. However, I found their interface hard to use for browsing through. So I wrote a crawler in python to get all the books to my webserver.
  Along with storing the books, I generated thumbnails for every chapter. […]

  February 6th, 2008