Infographic: Music

A graphical breakdown of my music collection, about 7400 tracks in all. This doesn't include music stored on the CDs and some of the old external hard drives.

Infographic: Books

One of the informative concepts that Tushar introduced me to, was mind-maps. Earlier, I did use some diagrams for brainstorming, but mind-mapping brought a structured approach to it. Mind maps is one of the easiest yet powerful tools you can use to organize your thoughts and ideas, and there are a number of free as well as proprietary tools available for it.
Here's a rudimentary mind-map created in 2010 for my favourite books, the list has changed quite a bit now.

Nasadiya Sukta

Who knows and who can say

From where all this came from, how this happened

The gods themselves are later than the creation

So who truly knows from where we have arisen?

Is there a Creator? Or is there none?

He who surveys all from the highest heaven

Whether He created this, or whether He didn't

He knows... Or perhaps He doesn't know even...

~Nasadiya sukta (Rig-Veda 10.129)

Nasadiya Sukta features as the title track and the end credits track of Bharat Ek Khoj TV series from the 1990s, which was based on the "Discovery of India" book by Pdt. Nehru. 
I loved the track for its tune and rhythm back then, now I love it for its meaning! 

The List: Movies

My favourite English movies... Need to fill up the gaps....
A Apollo-13
B Beautiful Mind
C Contact
D Dark Knight
E Ender's Game
F Forrest Gump
G Gladiator
I Interstellar
J Jurassic Park
K King's Speech
M Matrix
P Psycho
S Schindler's List
T Titanic
V Valkyrie
W Wall-E
Y You've Got Mail
Z Zero Dark 30


My favourite TV series/shows... Lots of gaps to fill here too...
A Agatha Christie's Poirot (ITV) 
B Big Bang Theory (CBS)
C Cosmos: A Space-time Odyssey (Nat Geo)
D Death Note 
F Friends (NBC)
G Game of Thrones (HBO)
H How Do They Do It? (Discovery Channel)
L Late Show with David Letterman (CBS)
M Mythbusters (Discovery Channel)
P Planet Earth (BBC)
S Sherlock (BBC)
T Two And A Half Men (CBS)
W When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (Discovery Channel)

My favourite Hindi movies... Some gaps here too!
A Andaz Apna Apna
B Black Friday
C Chupke Chupke (Amitabh-Dharmendra)
D Dil Chahta Hai
F Fashion
G Gangs of Wasseypur
H Hera Pheri
I Iqbal
J Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron
K Kahaani
L Lagaan
M Mughal-E-Azam
O Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
P Prahaar
Q Queen
R Raincoat (Ajay Devgan-Aishwarya Rai)
S Sholay
T Taarein Zameen Par
W Wednesday
Z Zanzeer

My favourite Marathi movies... Need to watch more...

A अशी ही बनवाबनवी
B बालगंधर्व
C चौकट राजा
D डोम्बिवली फास्ट
E एक होता विदुषक
H हरीश्चंद्राची फेक्टरी
K कट्यार काळजात घुसली
M मी शिवाजी राजे भोसले बोलतोय
N नटरंग
P प्रकाश बाबा आमटे
S श्यामची आई
U उत्तरायण
V वास्तुपुरुष
Z झपाटलेला

Statistics

Statistics is a fascinating subject. There are many jokes about statisticians' obsession with numbers, but the subject is of vital importance in today's age of data mining. 
I often got confused between mean, median and mode, but learnt an interesting concept called correlation. Two properties are said to be correlated when they increase or decrease in tandem. Due to this, we often tend to confuse between correlation and causation. Correlated properties are indeed necessary for each other, but they may not just be sufficient.


Talking about Statistics, we had a section on Probability, Permutations and Combinations. The problems always involved real-life scenarios like getting Heads or Tails five times in a row of coin flip, or chances of seating next to your favourite (girl) friend in cinema. Solving such examples was superfun. 


And yet, I was dissatisfied with probability at a certain level. For example, they said chance of air crash is miniscule compared to car crash. But did this consider the fact that road traffic far outnumbers air traffic? And, even if air crash has 0.0001% chance, what was going to stop it from materializing for the flight I would be travelling on?
Of course, now I realize that mathematics doesn't work that way!