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Landing the Moon:
A Druvan's Experience Interning at ISRO

In 2019, I interned at the Indian Space Research Organisation during the Chandrayaan mission. A reflection on space, code, and what it means to be part of something larger than yourself.

September 2023 Read essay
Essay No. 001

On the experience of contributing to one of India's most celebrated space missions — and what it taught me about building things that endure.

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AIAccessibilityUSC
Deep Learning Meets Accessibility: Building Sign Language AI

How a team of four USC students built the first end-to-end 3D Sign Language Production model — and why building for overlooked people is the most important work an engineer can do.

Mar 2025
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CultureIdentityFashion
The Full Wardrobe, The Empty Self

Fast fashion isn't just an environmental crisis. It's an identity one — and the wardrobe that's overflowing is the wardrobe that slowly replaced a self.

2025
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AEMTechnicalAEMaaCS
Taming AEM Access Control

Everything I learned the hard way about restricting AEM authors to specific content areas in AEMaaCS with repoinit — so you don't have to.

2025
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