Sanchit Jhunjhunwala

Schooling my way through numerous towns and cities across India, I've been rather fortunate in terms of the early exposure I've had to diversity - of problems and ideas. Amid all this change, what I did find as a constant was my love for all things mechanical. And this has since driven my examination of things, concepts and that of understanding itself.

• Course of courses

Everything in this world is magic, except to the magician.
Robert Ford

In the process of fascination with a multitude of machines, methods and minds; it comes naturally for the curious to seek demystification of the apparent, that holds the contraption together. In my case, I've found it best to get a hang of it by getting my hands on it. And contrary to popular opinion, I've found the magic to remain.

• To the field

Happiness [is] only real when shared.
Christopher McCandles

In working with science and tech, progress - however incremental - is made only upon legitimizing work via critique. Having had opportunities to share publicly the work I'd been a part of, it has become evident to me now that collaboration and critical feedback are both fundamental to growth.

• Abstract & art

Grashof comes alive when his law helps iterate through hundreds of linkage ratios. Fourier taps his foot along as you fish out the static from a voice recording. Convolution suddenly makes more sense when used to detect the disparity between pixels from two stereo imaging sensors. And how else is one to discover the aroma of wood, without having burned it on a lathe oneself?

• Go figure

Let's have a look a what I know - objectively. In here are courses - ones I've formally completed or am in the process of doing so, languages - written, spoken or coded; tools - mathematical or mechanical, and other things that may not so simply be classified - such as the ability to identify an instance for an oxford comma.

• Tools & tackles