वर्षों तक वन में घूम घूम, बाधा विघ्नों को चूम चूम
सह धूप घाम पानी पत्थर, पांडव आये कुछ और निखर
सौभाग्य न सब दिन होता है, देखें आगे क्या होता है
सह धूप घाम पानी पत्थर, पांडव आये कुछ और निखर
सौभाग्य न सब दिन होता है, देखें आगे क्या होता है
-Ramdhari Singh Dinkar in Rashmirathi
If I may be dramatic, and being dramatic is what I suppose I am at least entitled as of now, and quote Dinkar, yes, my luck has woken up. And woke it did, at 1600 on the 25th. Yes, the 25th I called dreaded on the day itself. It has been kinder to me that I had been to it in times of tension. Even when ungrateful, I have somehow still been treated kindly, I have been a lucky man most of my life. In this way, at least. Well by topic was nice too, I got to show an image from a news article titled Solar Eclipse 2019 in India: Best Places to Spot the Annular Solar Eclipse in India in a maths talk. It does look beautiful.
Dare, and that I will for I am on my entitlement period as abovementioned, I say it looks better in the slides.
Gloating over what I call aesthetics (my lack of taste of which will be clear from the Blog's theme) and success aside, lets go over the talk. There were faces I didn't expect to come. Like last semester, R Sir made an unexpected entry. But this time, like in my Seminar for his class and unlike the RKHS Seminar in April, he was more content and fine rather than bewildered and bored as one normally sees him during talks. This was the highest praise I got from the seminar. This trumps multiple audience members and 2 committeemen letting me know that my talk was good. Even Panchalli, of the-algebraist-taking-advanced-PDE fame, said that it was the most entertaining talk of the session and the only one where she did not feel sleepy, even if I understood nought. My talk did not have elaborate poetry or such, or jokes or gimmicks as some love to add. The most "gimmicky" thing was the photo of the Solar Corona to explain why the Corona problem is called so. But blame Newman for coining the term. This one ain't on me.
Ek aur https://t.co/XdKn8B4h3w pic.twitter.com/ml7WF8y3l6
— Aryan Kumar Prasad (@Aryan_AKP) November 27, 2025
Gloating over what I call aesthetics (my lack of taste of which will be clear from the Blog's theme) and success aside, lets go over the talk. There were faces I didn't expect to come. Like last semester, R Sir made an unexpected entry. But this time, like in my Seminar for his class and unlike the RKHS Seminar in April, he was more content and fine rather than bewildered and bored as one normally sees him during talks. This was the highest praise I got from the seminar. This trumps multiple audience members and 2 committeemen letting me know that my talk was good. Even Panchalli, of the-algebraist-taking-advanced-PDE fame, said that it was the most entertaining talk of the session and the only one where she did not feel sleepy, even if I understood nought. My talk did not have elaborate poetry or such, or jokes or gimmicks as some love to add. The most "gimmicky" thing was the photo of the Solar Corona to explain why the Corona problem is called so. But blame Newman for coining the term. This one ain't on me.
My narrative structure did work, it seems. But one committee member, better known as Fatakeshto for his in-seminar antics, he told at the end of the talk that "you promised to take us to Kashmir, but took us to Daringbadi. I was not bad, but misleading". But I still think the talk would be too bland without the "clickbait" of the Kashmiri Corona Problem. Estimates are dry, pure estimates might catch the fancy of some, but I think motivation, and mind you I ask of no dastardly "real world" applications, for estimations are needed. And hopefully, next semester, I will be completing reading Carleson (1970) , with of course help from Garnett which unlike Duren has actual complete proofs., and take the committee to Kashmir, but only if तुने मुझे बुलाया शेरा वालिये, मैं आया मैं आया शेरा वालिये . That's it, hopefully no more seminar talk for six months.
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