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One of my goals this year is to publish 2 books. One got published. Sort of. Data Science for Sustainable Development Goals: India Case Studies is an open-access anthology and I’m the designated author of Chapter 10: Using Data Analytics to Improve Students’ Performance is about how Gramener worked with NCERT to analyze the National Achievement Survey data, discovering stuff like TV hurts maths but not reading scores, playing helps maths but not reading scores, fathers of West Bengal (not mothers) and mothers of Punjab (not fathers) influence their children’s scores the strongest, and so on. ...

I fancied Isaac Asimov a lot, and wanted to write. When I was a kid, I wrote a few short stories. They are, unfortunately, very contextual. The jokes can only be understood by those whom the stories were written for. But still, since I’d put in several days of effort…

The world’s funniest joke. The joke deals with a man getting shot. And when I think about it, I can’t phrase is better than Asimov did in Jokester. “The point is,” said Meyerhof, “that I have pictured a husband being humiliated by his wife; a marriage that is such a failure that the wife is convinced that her husband lacks any virtue. Yet you laugh at that. If you were the husband, would you find it funny?”. ...

Asimov’s Foundation was translated into Arabic. Title: Al-Qaeda. The Guardian explores the link between Asimov and bin Laden.

Asimov had AIDS. But because of a by-pass surgery.

Encyclopaedia Galactica. For Asimov fans.