Hi! I'm Hardik: a graduate student, web developer, writer and Arsenal fan. I'm currently a Masters student at University of Southern California, majoring in Computer Science. Previously, I was a developer at SportzInteractive, after a failed attempt at a startup. I graduated from NIT Trichy in 2010.

In my free time, I enjoy programming, writing, startups, natural language processing, learning, technology, travelling, comedy, reading, football, music and the occasional movie.

Here, I share my opinion on stuff I find important enough to write about. This blog has comments turned off to avoid normal people turning into trolls. However, if you wish to have a mature conversation about anything I write, contact me by clicking here!.

PS: This blog is hosted on GitHub, and you can view licensing information here.

Misc :
1. You can catch my older and now defunct blog at A Day Without Chocolate, where most of my previous writings are present. They will stay there and will not be migrated to this blog.
2. To read some of my longer articles, proceed to /essays.
3. Programmer? Check out my experiments, tools and noob .vimrc.
4. Want to tell me a secret? Use my public key on my contact page.
5. Looking for inspiration? Do you know about Soichiro Honda?
6. Love science? I'm sure you've watched Richard Feynman!
7. Aspiring entrepreneur in India? Check out L-pad.
8. Hacker News addict? Check out some lesser known features and awesome add-ons.
9. Fancy computational linguistics? Check out Dr. V. Gopalakrishnan's (my college professor) class notes. To download the notes, click here.