In 2007, I took a train to Mumbai and spent ₹30,000 on a telescope I'd never looked through. I'd learned everything from books and internet forums. Nobody in my circle did this stuff. I just wanted to see Saturn's rings for myself.
That telescope turned into a problem. I kept showing people the sky and they kept showing up. By 2016, I'd quit pretending this was a hobby and started RiSa Astronomy — overnight stargazing camps, school programs, corporate sessions. We haul a 20-inch Dobsonian to dark-sky sites across South India.
Somewhere along the way, I got curious about eclipse prediction. That curiosity turned into EclipseDB — 142,500 eclipses computed from scratch using JPL's planetary ephemeris, spanning 30,000 years, validated against NASA's own canon. It's the largest digital eclipse catalog that exists. I also ended up becoming an AMFI-registered mutual fund distributor because friends kept asking me to explain SIPs, and I figured I might as well do it properly.
The common thread? I keep finding things that feel unnecessarily complicated and thinking — why can't someone just explain this properly? So I do. That's basically it.