Assorted stuff¶

Here you can find an assorted list of things that interests me.

Books¶

I am an avid reader of non-fiction and I am quite active on Goodreads.com. Check out my recently read list of books below:

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time

American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene & Constantine

Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics

Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics

The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Sarrvesh's favorite books »

Blog posts¶

I am a keen follower of the blogs listed below:

Backreaction by Sabine Hossenfelder

In the dark by Peter Coles

Of particular significance by Matt Strassler

Not even wrong by Peter Woit

I also read follow SciAm, Quanta and Aeon magazines regularly

Radio telescopes/observatories¶

For a lecture on radio astronomy, I once plotted all radio telescopes/observatories on a map and then decided to keep updating it. Here is the current version of that map (updated on May 17, 2018). Let me know if I am missing an observatory.