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I love playing drums. It has been a lifelong dream to play in a band and on the stage. Luckily my college has a music team called "AROHI", and they were looking for a drummer. I sent them a video of me playing in my drum kit back home, and they invited me over to meet them. After I got in, we started practicing for a showcase. It was a risky move as the event was in 2 days, and we had only 24 hours or so of practice time. On the day of the showcase, we all felt butterflies when it was our turn to perform. We go on the stage, I look at the drumkit they provided, it was a pearl decade 5 piece standard kit, but with lots of cymbals, zildijian and sabian, there was three crash cymbals, one ride, and one hi-hat. I was mesmerized by the drumkit.    

I participated in the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KSO) Winter School organized by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics from January 3rd to 10th 2024. The winter school was focused mainly on Solar Physics. We had lectures by various professors from IIA on topics like brief introduction to Magnetohydrodynamics, Atmosphere of the Sun (both upper and lower), Helioseismology, flares and CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejection), Remote sensing techniques and In-situ Observations of CMEs. Along with the lectures we also had hands-on sessions on the topics which were taught during the lectures. One day was allotted for visiting the various telescopes in KSO: KTT (Kodaikanal Tower Tunnel Telescope), H-alpha telescope, White light Active Region Monitor (WARM), Spectroheliograph (used by John Evershed, who was at Kodaikanal during 1900s, and discovered the Evershed Effect), 6 inch refractor white light telescope, radio telescope etc. More info about the history of Kodaikanal can be found here We also had o...