The Chronic Engineer

An electrical engineer mulls over various things around him...

Sunday, August 10, 2025

Bow of my pains

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Those arrows that impale you Spring from the bow of my pains If only I could pause my business And sit like a tramp in the rain To loosen th...
Monday, June 9, 2025

Mud bath, blood bath

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Vienna by the day Graz by midnight We got off the train And took the bus We got off the bus And started walking On that opportune Narrow fo...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Working against hard

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Bee against the glass pane Striving towards the light Wearing herself down unaware Of the open window beside As she nears the pane's edg...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Painted Red Chillies 🌶️

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On my brittle white porcelain plate There are four painted red chillies Sometimes they look bright and pretty  But most times just permanent...
Friday, January 31, 2025

A heroic slow down

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In a world obsessed  With more and more An act of resistance  Is to say 'enough' To resign from the demands  Of peers and pop cultur...
Saturday, January 11, 2025

Back to the present

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I try and I fail Again and again As I drag myself Now from the grudges of the past Then from the checklists of the future When will I at las...
Friday, December 30, 2022

Reading in the age of social media

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Lalit Patnaik
Power Electronics Engineer at AVL, Graz, Austria. Dabbling in Physics, Philosophy, and Climate Science. Observing Nature. Chronically Curious. Twitter: @lalitpatnaik @opelexnet Mastodon: @lalitpatnaik@mastodon.cloud
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