My Perspective

 As a part of Centre for Neurotechnology (CfN) team, on 21st and 22nd Sep 2024 at Advanced Research Centre, Glasgow University, I interacted with the general public of all ages at Explorathon 2024 event to demonstrate ElectroEncepahloGraphy (EEG which records electrical activity of the brain) and to celebrate 100 years of EEG. The audience got to wear portable dry electrode EEG headsets and were able to see neurofeedback in action.

I developed a web game on vibhakthi pratyayas (noun declensions) in Sanskrit language. Here, I gamified Sanskrit based rules of grammar for declining nouns as a sorting puzzle of the Shabd table.  This game entitled 'Shabd' has all three genders, all types of word ending, both for nouns and pronouns. I have included 40 Shabd tables in all. Check your memory on राम shabd below. I learnt the #declension of Masculine word ending in 'a': "Rama" Sanskrit for "God" in 71 sec at https://shabd.glitch.me

The annual Summer School on ‘Brain Disorders Research’ [1] is organised by Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) [2], Cardiff University. This year the fourteenth edition of the summer school was held on July 8-11, 2024 in Cardiff, Wales. Here, I am documenting brief learnings and my reflections on participating in this summer school. The participants consisted of both students and researchers from neuroscience, and bioinformatics background as well as clinicians who were mainly trainee psychiatrists. We had participants from as far as HongKong and China who came to the UK just to participate in this program.  Given this heterogeneous mixture in the audience, the organisers ensured that sufficient background information is shared before introducing new topics be it neuroimaging or genomics. Since I do not have a background in bioinformatics, this introductory information on it was very important to understand and relate to the state of the art research findings that

Glasgow Science Festival (GSF) returned for its 18th year, celebrating how research is transforming our lives, our cities, and our futures. GSF has over 150+ events spread across 40+ venues across the City of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.   As a part of Centre for Neurotechnology (CfN), on 9th and 10th Jun 2024 at Glasgow Science Centre, I engaged with the general public of all ages to demonstrate  Electroencephalography (EEG) based NeuroFeedBack (NFB) on volunteers who would wear a EEG headband and control their brain rhythm with a real-time visual feedback. This is an exciting application of Brain Computer Interface (BCI).

My gamification of Bhagavad Gita as a typing web app received an Honorary Mention in the category "Made You Learn" for the 2023 'Last year on Glitch' roundup awards by Glitch.com. This project aims to popularize Bhagavad Gita in the younger generation through gamification. Link to the award announcement:  https://glitch.com/discover Link to the game:  https://gita-typing-game.glitch.me/

Here is my latest simple web game based on searching a word in jumbled up letters. Your challenge is to search for English names of the yoga poses (asanas) in a grid of letters. This is a fun way to think about the different poses that each asana makes. Just like the Aasanas themselves, the English words, that the pose represents (object), can also be in horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, either forward or in in reverse order on the grid. You can solve the #YogaPose search in a letter grid game to learn about 5 Asanas at Link: https://yoga-pose-search.glitch.me/ Please give me your feedback as well as your ideas for a small fun game that I could work on next.

As per Bhagavad Gita, "Open Source" movement is the greatest and purest form of work (Sattvic). So in this spirit, I have open sourced my research work (source code and data) at Open Science Framework -  https://osf.io/kf2vj/  and the papers I have published are in open access if not then shared by me freely on my website. 'Bhagavad Gita, the sacred book of the Hindus, says there are 3 kinds of work - Sattvic, Rajasic, and Tamasic. Chapter 18, Verse 23: niyatam sangarahitam araagadweshatah kritam aphalaprepsunaa karma yattat saatwikamuchyate Meaning: An action which is obligatory, which is free from attachment, which is done without love or hatred by one who is not desirous of any reward - that action is declared to be Sattvic. So this implies open source movement is Sattvic in nature! Chapter 18, Verse 24: yattu kaamepsunaa karma saahankaarena vaa punah kriyate bahulaayaasam tadraajasamudaahritam Meaning: But that action which is done by one longing for the fulfillment o