Paul Freud
A music director recounts the bizarre fall-from-glory of his nemesis.
“But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people, and the noise was heard afar off.”
Ezra 3:12‐13
2026
Translations of some Indian songs
Attempts to capture the quirks of the folk tongues and the depth of their simplicity in translations.
On the Incomparability of Operator Fidelity and Q-Power Means in the Near Order
A short note showing that operator fidelity and the power means of two positive matrices are incomparable in the near order, for any choice of exponent.
From the journal
Encounters with the dense ordinary.
Confession
A collection of poems about man’s unceasing interactions with sin.
Hope
Psalms from the pit. A poetry colletion.
2025
Rose Leaves
Should those who can’t be helped be left to themselves?
Cryptographic Algorithms on Lattices: Randomized Nearest Plane by Klein
Notes on Babai's deterministic nearest-plane algorithm for the Closest Vector Problem, and Klein's randomized variant built on a discrete Gaussian sampler over the integers.
Hold you somehow
Inevitable seasons of intimacy. Original composition.
You Can Call Me Abraham
What about Christians with pagan names?
Homilies
Commentaries (with fear and trembling) on some chapters of the Bible.
Sailor Take Me
Inspired from the Bengali folk song Amar Mon Mojaiya Re. Original composition.
Elegiac
The despair of self-centering — a collection of poems.
2024
Apologetics of Human Freedom
The problem of evil and why evangelicals should reclaim human freedom as part of the answer.
Evident unto Itself
A small aspect of why I am a Christian.
2023
Exposition on Robust Vector Space Decomposition (RVSD)
A brief explainer of Robust Vector Space Decomposition (RVSD), a meta-algorithm for unsupervised learning tasks like subspace clustering and mixtures of Gaussians, along with a short video lecture.
There may be rain
No delight to embrace when a frown’s on her face
The Anthropic Principle
Since we are who we are, it is what it is.
2020
On Counting Special Basis for $\mathbb{R}^n$
Counting the number of basis sets of $\mathbb{R}^3$ whose involved vectors have only 0 or 1 coordinates.
2018
Once upon a time
Some short stories, prose and poems composed when I was a teenager.
An Average Monday of Departure
Housewives of Indian small towns.