Arjun's Webpage

Rodinal - I

pictures developed in (pa)rodinal I brewed myself. scanned by Minetta Film Lab (Hyedrabad)

about

Who am I ? I am Arjun. I am from Delhi but currently living in Bangalore for my first real job. Got my EPF and everything registered. I have forgotten my passions and delusions and surrendered myself to the big machine. I hope to slowly recover and bounce back.

Notes on तीन ताल

जय हो! जय हो! जय हो! शब्दकोष तीन ताल पॉडकास्ट में सुने कुछ रोचक शब्दों और भाषा प्रयोगों का छोटा सा कोष

What's going on?

What’s going on? I read the news today, oh boy…. So here are things ranging from stuff that attracts BBC and Al Jazeera headlines, nationwide hysteria, regime changes, social unrest and Netflix documentaries to material for Teen Taal’s Bizarre Khabarien or Gursimran Khamba’s The Nation Want’s To Guess.

Totalitarian

अपने लड़के को भी लड़की की तरह पाला है इन लोगों नें। मुझे इस घर से बे-रोक-टोक या थोड़ी मगर अतिरिक्त से कहीं ज़्यादा रोक-टोक के साथ ३ km दूर के कॉलेज भी जाने दिया गया इसे भी मैं गनीमत समझूंगा। इस सब के बाद भी मैं वो बन गया हूँ जो मैं हूँ (moderately successful “आदमी “) इसे देख कर यही कहा जाएगा की कुदरत से आप नहीं लड़ सकते। कुदरत अपना रुख लेगी, और उम्मीद है की आप बेहरहमी से रौंधे जाएंगे।

Deepak(s)

Muffler Wala Deepak is now potbelly Deepak; Topi Wala Deepak had become Deepak long ago, now he’s just distantly close deepak, always with that hesitant grin and forced Esprit de corps;

Pentax DL-9000 : The Scamera

The Pentax DL9000, also sold under other names was a plastic body, plastic lens, fixed focus camera with a SLR camera like appearance and unverifiable unrealistic claims pasted on as stickers onto its body. This is a collection of Pentax DL9000 listings I’ve found on my hunt for a SLR camera.

how its made ?

How its made ? This website is made using Hugo , a static site generator. The theme I use is based on Hugo Bearblog . Which in turn is based on Bear blog .

Changelog

Changelog Expressing my gratitude to all the चंगे लोग (good fellas) A change log pun 2026-05-18 09:55 +05:30 - Updated Dark Color Scheme and Rss Template Added some color to the dark scheme, changed the dark profile image dithering from Monochrome Bayer 2x2 to Floyd Steinberg with a color pallete. Also asked codex to modify my RSS template to use the lastmod date and cover all the weirdly…

कुत्ते - शेर

“किस में है दम जो छेड़ दे दिलेर को; गर्दिशों में काट लेते है कुत्ते भी शेर को” - Teen Taal S2 E156

Bad Financial Decision on 4 Wheels

My plans/ideation resto-modding a Maruti Suzuki Esteem. A baleno (the real one made before 2006) would be a simultaneous better but worse financial decision

Toad

when you shit the toad and the toad hits the fan there’s a toad on the road.

House M.D.

My favourite quotes from house: “Religion is not the opiate of the masses. Religion is the placebo of the masses” - S5 E16

Stick Mo' Bills

Stick Mo’ Bills An open invitation, contrary to the average boundary wall or metro pillar. Adverts, labels, packaging, flyers and other items with cool typography and graphic design.

गुम-कोश (Lost-arry)

गुम-कोश (Lost-arry) अनुवाद में खो गए शब्दों का कोष| A glossary of words lost in translation. रेकी (Reki) - Recce British informal shorthand for reconnaissance, used in context of planning. In the north indian context it's usually used to describe the act of checking out a flat or plot of land before you buy it. Example: आज फ्लैट की रेकी कर के आये

Maps of Delhi - Transit

Maps of Delhi - Transit Metro, roads, DTC getting around.. A map of DTC bus routes This map of DTC bus routes was created in the style of a metro map, now taken down on the web I had to do a lot of digging to find it. Created by Sudipto Ghosh and Shimonti Sinha of Citywise in 2016 . The project seems to have wrapped up by 2018.

Maps of Delhi - Urban

Maps of Delhi - Urban A collection of maps of urban Delhi I've collected over my internet rabbitholeing on the websites of Delhi Development Authority and Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

Kaancept

A glossary of terms I have heard in DankRishu streams Also, checkout Satyr कटाक्ष (Kataksh) Meaning: satire? criticism? Usage: Used to refer to any social critique made on the stream, usually in an “I’m not implying anything but…” manner.

Badappan

बड़प्पन की धरती पर कौन बड़ा - एक जिसके कृत्या बड़े या एक जिसकी उम्र बड़ी ? — सरदार कुलदीप

Leather Notebook Cover

The real thing, what follows is largely a product of web browsing and AI prompts. Real leather on a spiral notebook is some crazy shit, now when I think about it, those black luxor notebooks have always kind of tried to emulate a leather finish on their black plastic covers.

One Task a Day

Stuck in a one task a day unproductive productivity regime. Summer depression ?

verysmallmouse

A crappy 3D pritned tiny mouse with the internals of a Logitech M185(?) Ripped off from other people, with 0 respect for their copyrights.

Tyvek Wallet

An obituary for my wallet Tyvek is one of the coolest materials I’ve worked with. It’s a fibrous sheet of plastic that by itself it doesn’t feel like much, but when made into a wallet seems to defy the rules of physics. I carried one such Tyvek wallet for over a year. The wallet was completely made by hand and all you need to make one is a sheet of Tyvek, a trusty utility blade…

baghookthing

A backpack holder that can hold small backpacks (like the Quechua 25L Pack I use) onto shelfs or tabletops upto 25mm thick. In my testing it took up to 5kgs. I have printed it in PLA with 8 wall lines.

placement की fearmongering

So long, placement की fearmongering करके side income कमाने वाले past years के GATE toppers और बाकी घिस्सू प्राणी। इस झक्की आदमी को अब आपकी ज़रूरत नहीं।

Creativity

I operate in short bursts of either creativity or monotonity. Most days pass by in a haze, with nothing more than half-assed bullet journaling at best. Making of lists and plans, browsing the web and collecting trivial information while living walter mitty-esque fantasies of creative fulfilment. Sometimes these menial activities get caught up in an outburst of inspiration telling me to get busy…

Notes to self

Typing notes to self into a chatbox just feels better because there’s always the possibility that there might be someone on the other side.

Ultimate Dahi

More fat than regular dahi.

Rot

The neural center rots.

Ender 3

An Ender 3 is the rite of passage for all 3D Printing enthusiasts. Yes a Bambu lab may be refined, convenient and clean but to become the ultimate hobbyist and maker one must burn their hands cleaning the clogged extruder of an Ender 3. One must blow more money on repairs than the actual cost of the printer in order to get it running.

Things That Are but Arent

things that are but aren’t: Schrodinger’s cat fight club Godel’s incompleteness theorem

35mm - I

Pictures from my first roll of 35mm film.

Spider

Under a bench

परछत्ती/Parchatti

arjun - 28/07/2025, 11:55 what do you guys call this place ? we call it parchatti amanakeet - 01/08/2025, 08:14 Bukhari/Alyaa

Album Art

If we ever made music along with rockets

CPT

An entry from my journal, written in a midnight writers unblock initiated by Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena कल पेपर है। और कल चंद मिनटों में आ जाएगा।

Windtunnel

कुत्ते - आवाज़

सन २०२५* : कुत्ते लोगों की आवाज़ दबा रहे हैं। *करीबन

Unregulated

I like to support the untaxed, unregulated part of the economy. I don’t haggle with Rikshawalas. They aren’t technically unregulated, they are self regulating. They are perfect order within the lack of order. Nobody decided their prices, nobody made their laws. They operate a thin plane above supply and demand. Ethics and regulations when they exist are based on their morality. They…

कुत्ते - विवाद

सन २०२४ : कुत्ते विवाद से डरने लगे हैं। आप किस कुत्ते के पक्ष में हैं ?

Offering

You got one part of that wrong. This is not meth. Its potassium nitrate.

Metro

Semal

I missed the double rainbow. Also for the longest time in my life I used to think that these are gulmohar trees.

Peepal

Rocket

I didn’t make it. I made the ones that crashed and burned.

Hauz Khas

As of 2026 I hate south delhi.

Satyr

Some esoteric thoughts I had that I am too uninspired to articulate anymore. But hey, at least I made all this cool shit in canva 2 years ago.

Ruins

at Mehrauli Archeological Park.

Qutub (Minar?)

even if your friend might be in a different place in life than you, you can still be on the same page with them.

कुत्ते

सन २०२४ : सभी कुत्ते कोट पेहेन्ने लगे है।