PhD Life

Snapshots from life as a PhD student — treks, travel, conferences, thesis discussions, and everything in between.

The Bike Finally Made It to ARIES Bike ride from New Delhi to Nainital, bringing the bike along so I can have many more rides through these mountains.

The Bike Finally Made It to ARIES
Bike ride from New Delhi to Nainital, bringing the bike along so I can have many more rides through these mountains.

A Solar Physicist's Pilgrimage A nice detour from the usual data and deadlines — paid my respects at the Katarmal Sun Temple.

A Solar Physicist's Pilgrimage
A nice detour from the usual data and deadlines — paid my respects at the Katarmal Sun Temple.

A View Worth the Climb A scenic reward after the 2-hour trek to Naina Peak with Nainital town and Naini Lake in sight.

A View Worth the Climb
A scenic reward after the 2-hour trek to Naina Peak with Nainital town and Naini Lake in sight.

The talk that had me nervous all week Presenting my JRF-to-SRF review talk — the milestone review where a Junior Research Fellow turns into a Senior Research Fellow, marking two years into the PhD

The talk that had me nervous all week
Presenting my JRF-to-SRF review talk — the milestone review where a Junior Research Fellow turns into a Senior Research Fellow, marking two years into the PhD

Chai o'clock at USO Late-night chai breaks by the side of Fatehsagar Lake with the USO gang, during a research visit to Udaipur Solar Observatory — one of several trips there for the ISRO RESPOND project

Chai o'clock at USO
Late-night chai breaks by the side of Fatehsagar Lake with the USO gang, during a research visit to Udaipur Solar Observatory — one of several trips there for the ISRO RESPOND project

The Place That Started It Back at the Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, MAHE, for the statistics school — the perfect excuse to reconnect with the group where my interest in solar physics first took root, before I moved to ARIES for my PhD

The Place That Started It
Back at the Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, MAHE, for the statistics school — the perfect excuse to reconnect with the group where my interest in solar physics first took root, before I moved to ARIES for my PhD

The one with the Dipu gang 🌞 A full house at ARIES for The Variable Sun (TVS) conference — from super seniors to supervisor to their supervisor, the whole chain was there

The one with the Dipu gang 🌞
A full house at ARIES for The Variable Sun (TVS) conference — from super seniors to supervisor to their supervisor, the whole chain was there