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Taking the Stage at The Largest Technology Conference in The World
In November of 2021, I alongside my colleagues Taira Mehta and Anupra Chandran spoke at the largest innovation and technology event in the world, Web Summit. A few months before our presentation, we co-created a carbon capture project called Kaptis, which focuses on extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and converting it into graphene. The number one thing we do right now after capturing CO2 is burying it into the ground and that isn't efficient, because there is no economic incentive, so we wanted to use carbon instead as a resource. Currently, carbon is being turned into many...
Climate Crisis 2022
Climate change has been a hot-button issue for years. Scientists have high confidence that global temperatures will continue to rise for decades to come, largely due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which includes more than 1,300 scientists from the United States and other countries, forecasts a temperature rise of 2.5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century. Recently, in Los Angeles, scientists including Peter Kalmus, a NASA climate scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, chained themselves to the JP Morgan...
Don't let your hope die
Into this world I came, my parent gave me a name I grew up to seek for fame but it brought me no gain. Living a life of lies, Led me to drugs I ended up holding guns For I became a thug Existing became my bane I sought for change, But it placed my head on floating questions Like a sad puppy when it cries, Tears roll down my eyes Should I end it? I asked For life is a prison, Please hang on, It responded vaguely Giving me the tiniest piece of hope, Same I hold on to, Hoping it'd someday grow, And purify my soul. Don't let your hope die. Stay focused on achieving your goals. Take one step at a...
Looking back on lockdown days
Lately, I have been thinking about the lockdown days a lot. My life was going on, going to school, feeling lonely, coming back home, studying – my life was like that. Repetition of the same tiring routine everyday. But then, the lockdown started. Staying at home all day didn't sound boring at all. It felt like a blessing. Today, looking back on those days, I still feel like that.
Mongla: A Haven for Climate Change Refugees?
Climate Change has begun displaying its catastrophic self to the world. The rising sea levels, irregularity of seasons, and increase in the number of natural disasters are some of the large-scale consequences causing havoc in various vulnerable regions of the world. However, in recent times, Climate Change has also branched out its adverse effects across the environmental domain and has forced people to transmute into ‘Climate Refugees’. ‘Climate Refugees’ could be simply defined as the large-scale migration of people due to the environmental reason of climate change. And one of the regions...
Drawing and painting
To me, art is a way for me to relax and feel at peace with myself. Even when I was younger, drawing was a way for me to feel better about anything and everything. I have been drawing since I was at least 5 years old. My mom used to let me draw on the walls because she knew I liked drawing at that age. Now, I’m a little older and drawing is still a big part of my life. Without drawing and painting, I would be sad all the time because I wouldn’t have a way to feel better about myself. When I paint or draw, it’s like a way for my to express my feelings and thoughts on the daily.
What is my purpose for my life?
Have you ever felt lost in what you should do with your life? I know I have. There are many things to do on this earth, from careers to hobbies. Better yet, even outside earth, like exploring space. Yet, you and I find ourselves not knowing what to do. One day we want to do something; the next day it’s another. It’s like going around and around failing to find steady ground. Let’s talk about careers. When I was younger, I wanted to be a nurse. I liked the thought of helping people and contributing to society in this form. Then I later realized that Chemistry and I were not friends. So that...
Unspoken Carbon Time Machine Threatens to Create a Climate Change Crisis
I come from officially the world's coldest city with over 10,000 population - Yakutsk. Sometimes, in winter, the temperatures here drop below −60°C (−76 °F). Located in East Siberia, Yakutsk is the capital city of the Sakha Yakutia Republic, which would be the world’s eighth-largest country if it were independent, according to The New York Times.
The Recollections
If you recall back, Times that were bad are the ones that stick the most Like parasites sucking on the anxieties. If you recall back, You realize you learn the most When things don't go the way you want. If you recall back, You understand you cannot change the past But you can change the way you react at the recollections.
What I Know about Perseverance
Perseverance always pays off, that's what I've heard countless times throughout my childhood. While I was not the type of kid who would easily believe stuff adults would so confidently speak of, I thought it must be true. After all, whatever is wrong with the idea of perseverance, right? If one persistently works towards something, one must of course be rewarded in the end. However, as I grew up into adulthood and matured in various ways, I realized life didn't always work like that. Perseverance didn't always pay off, and nor did my own experience with it. The meek version of me was ashamed...
Art : Reflection of Souls
A while ago, I started working on a story based on my disabilities. While writing that, I noticed that in real life I usually focus on accepting my disabilities and being happy with that, and I never talk about my pains. But while writing the story, I focused on how people think about disability and how their behaviour hurts me, the trivial things that matter to only me. I realized it even more after someone left a comment which made me think that my pain was reflected in the story. For the ones who make art, art actually reflects their souls. What remains deep inside of you comes out when you...
The journey of finding what makes my heart beat
I wrote my first meaningful story at my age of 13. I was in my study table, and suddenly the idea of the story hit my mind. Even before that, I tried to write story but those ended up in failed attempts. The next day, I showed the story to my friends and they praised it. Few days after that, my (now former) best friend told me to write a story on the theme ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed’, and she would write one too. I wrote, and that one was praised by her too. Starting then, every week we wrote stories on a topic. Those were not something that grandiose. Those stories were kind of...
Sidewalks: Be Safe
I never questioned my mother when she used to give me little snippets of warnings regarding sidewalks. These warnings would be filled with innocuous words, such as “careful” or “aware,” and I never put much thought to it. However, once I reached the age of eighteen, these warnings eventually died out. I realized she acknowledged I’m capable enough now to calculate when the sidewalks are safe and how to be safe when I’m there. I’m ever grateful that she passed down her wisdom to me. However, I didn’t realize until few months before that many young people might not have had those “little...
I lost me
somewhere in all this chaos somewhere in all these hopes somewhere in all those promises somewhere in all their dreams I lost me somewhere walking through these roads somewhere searching for the rainbows somewhere running through the highways somewhere on those morning walks I lost me somewhere in some of my memories somewhere in some funny fights somewhere on some cold mornings somewhere on some DJ nights I lost me somewhere trying hiking hills of standard hopeless expectations somewhere rolling down the slopes of disciplined perfect humans somewhere looking for a reason in a sea of ruthless...
Climate change: A planned fiasco
We live in a world full of quagmires, whether or not to solve them is usually deciphered by the degree of harm it causes in the present. Have we ever thought about what our indiscriminate actions today can lead to tomorrow? This is one sticky wicket that has been tantalizing almost every scientist to find a solution as urgently as possible. Climate change is not something that’s happening on its own, it’s A PLANNED FIASCO. Talking about how to reduce carbon emissions and listening to ‘How dare you’ by Greta Thunberg will no more help. Its an issue that needs more sensitization than blame...
Youth Faces of the World
Back to School: Self-Love Campaigns
Am I enough?
Our state's environmental future
I love Ohio. Sometimes it's unbearably cold or uncomfortably hot, there are bad things in every place, but overall, this place is my home and has been a home for my family, friends and everything in my life. And I know it is home to so many others as well. Some of the most precious parts of Ohio I strongly believe are the land, water systems, animals, as well as the people. I could tell you how Ohio lost ⅓ of its agricultural land between 1950-2000. I have been trying to compile statistics from the past two decades to see the more recent loss, because my personal experience leads me to feel...