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Hi đ I am Palash Bauri.
Who am I
I am a 25-year-old kid from West Bengal, India. I am a developer, student, and writer. Outside of my formal education, I enjoy building computer programs and writing literature. I like to read fiction, non-fiction, and comics. I enjoy reading everything from classical epics to modern writings across different genres and languages. In fiction, my favorite genres are science fiction, suspense, and historical fiction. In non-fiction, my two favorite subjects are history and science. In comics, I read across different formats, genres, and languages. I sometimes draw pixel art. I sometimes do photography.
What I do
I have been writing short stories and poetry since I was 5-6 years old. My poetry was first published at the age of 7 in a magazine. Since then, I have been writing stories of all lengths, essays, and poems in Bengali and English.
I write essays on many topics. The topics cover science, technology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and whatever else my mind takes me to. Many of them have found their way into magazines and newspapers. Others have stayed in the forgotten archive of my notepad. My stories are kind of similar. I have never stayed in one genre. I switch from science fiction to social commentary to folk tales to horror to comedy. I aim my writing at teenagers and young adults, so I use simpler words and structures. Well, poetry is a different story. Despite trying to keep it simple, sometimes I accidentally end up exploring complicated topics.
While I was writing prose and poetry and still going to school, I got my first computer in 2014. Since then, I’ve been writing all kinds of computer programs, and some have managed to brick my computer at least twice. Over the years, I have written everything from games to a compiler to something very silly. Some of them were smaller personal utilities, while others were big projects that took me years to complete. Few became popular, some were stopped midway, and few disappeared into the forgotten corner of my computer.
I was selected as a finalist in Google Code-in 2018 by Digital Impact Alliance for my contribution to open-source work. At that time, I was in 12th grade.
What did I study formally
I completed high school. I then completed a Diploma in Elementary Education in 2022. I then enrolled at NSOU and completed my bachelor’s degree in English by early 2026. I am currently pursuing a master’s degree in English.
What I have built and written:
Literature:
Some notable publications are:
- āĻāĻāĻžāĻļāĻāϞā§āĻĒ (Aakashgolpo; Translation: Tale of Sky; ISBN: 978-93-91776-10-7): This is my book of selected essays. Rupali Publisher in Kolkata published it in August 2022. This book contains essays written from my teenage years through adulthood. The selection contains essays on psychology, education, sociology, physics, and philosophy. It also includes essays on my own theories about society.
- āϏā§āϞā§-āĻŽā§āĻļāύ (Slow-motion): a Bengali short story published in the September 2019 edition of Kishore Bharati magazine. The magazine selected my story for the district-wise short stories competition. I was selected to represent my district along with two other writers in the competition. It was a short science fiction story.
- āĻ āϤā§āϤā§āϰ āĻĻāϰā§āĻĒāĻŖ (Mirror of the Past): A Bengali science article in Jnan-O-Bijnan, the science magazine of Bangiya Bijnan Parishad. The article appeared in the May 2021 issue (74th year, 5th issue), page 243. This article is about light, the delay in our vision, and how light can function as a time machine. Funnily enough, the essay and method feel like a science fiction story until you look into the actual science.
- āĻāĻžāĻā§āϰ āĻĒāĻžāϤāĻž āĻā§āύ āϏāĻŦā§āĻ (Why tree leaves are green). A Bengali science article published in the newspaper āϏā§āĻāĻŦāϰ (SUKHABAR) on November 10, 2025. It’s about how we see the colors of objects, and what colors we would see if we perceived colors differently.
Computer programs:
Some notable software projects include the following:
- Pankti Programming Language: a practical Bengali programming language. I wrote the current interpreter in C. The language and interpreter have seen many changes since 2019. The current interpreter uses a bytecode compiler and virtual machine. The goal was to make a practical programming language for Bengali speakers. In the past, quite a few Bengali programming languages were created. But most of them were intended as educational tools and toys. I wanted something practical, so I built Pankti on my own. I developed earlier versions of the interpreter in Go, Rust, and Zig. I am still working on it, fixing bugs and adding missing features that can be useful.
- BauriPixel: a cross-platform and lightweight pixel art editor. I wrote it in C with raylib as the graphics backend. It has pixel-perfect drawing tools, layers, and animation. As I am still working on it, features are being added and removed all the time.
- tkhtmlview: an open-source lightweight HTML rendering widget for Python’s Tkinter applications. It started as a fork of an abandoned library, tk_html_widgets, which I found when I was trying to build a Markdown editor in Python. Initially, I fixed some compatibility issues and added remote image support. Later it went through many small to big rewrites. New features were also added thanks to community contributions.
- ecoHexFarm: ecoHexFarm is also known as Ecological Hexa(gonal/decimal) Farming Game. It was my first game jam game, created for the raylib 6.x game jam with the theme “Hex + Merge”. The game has autonomous, evolvable bugs. Their genetic traits are represented through RGB colors. The bugs’ health is represented by red, speed by green, and detection range by blue. Players can visually understand the stats from the bugs’ color. Two healthy bugs merge and create an offspring. The offspring will inherit the parents’ genes with a random mutation.
- ESP32 Handheld: While bored one day, I found an ESP32 microcontroller lying around. I started tinkering with it and accidentally ended up making a custom handheld. I added a ST7735 display and a PlayStation-controller-style joystick and made drivers for them. I also made a custom graphical interface with navigational controls. On the software side, I implemented the UI and the drivers in MicroPython, Rust, and C++.
What I read and liked most:
I have read hundreds of books and comics since childhood. I am mentioning only the ones I liked most here.
Prose Literature:
English-language works include:
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
- Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Bengali-language works include:
- āĻāĻžāĻāĻĻā§āϰ āĻĒāĻžāĻšāĻžāĻĄāĻŧ (Chander Pahar, Transl. The Mountain of the Moon) by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
- āĻĻā§āĻŦāĻĻāĻžāϏ (Devdas), āĻāϰāĻŋāϤā§āϰāĻšā§āύ (Choritrohin, Transl. Debauched), āĻŽā§āĻ āĻĻāĻŋāĻĻāĻŋ and āĻŦāĻŋāύā§āĻĻā§āϰ āĻā§āϞ⧠by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.
- āĻĒāĻĨā§āϰ āĻĒāĻžāĻāĻāĻžāϞāĻŋ (Pather Panchali) by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
- āĻĒā§āϰāĻĢā§āϏāϰ āĻļāĻā§āĻā§ āϏāĻŋāϰāĻŋāĻ by Satyajit Ray
- āĻŦā§āϝā§āĻŽāĻā§āĻļ āĻŦāĻā§āϏ⧠āϏāĻŋāϰāĻŋāĻ by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
- āĻāĻŋāϰā§āĻāĻŋ āϏāĻŋāϰāĻŋāĻ by Dr. Nihar Ranjan Gupta
Works translated from Russian include:
- How Man Became a Giant by M. Ilin and Elena Segal
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Works translated from Chinese include:
- Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en (currently reading)
Graphic Literature:
Novels include:
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
- Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Andy Kubert
- Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli
Serialized ones include:
- Spy à Family by Endo Tatsuya
- Fullmetal Alchemist by Arakawa Hiromu
- GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka by Fujisawa Tohru
- Hinamatsuri by Masao Ohtake
- The Greatest Estate Developer
- A Returnerâs Magic Should Be Special
- Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint
- Noblesse
- Iâm Really Not the Devilâs Lackey
- B Is for Boss
- Demonic Emperor
- Moon Knight series
- Infinity Saga series
- Iron Man’s Extremis series
Contact Me
If you would like to know me better, or just chat, you can reach me in many ways. You can drop me an email (address mentioned in the footer). If you use Bluesky, you can text me at @palashbauri.in handle. If you use Instagram, you can text me at @bauripalash. As you can see, most of my usernames on the internet are @bauripalash. Feel free to reach me. I always like to talk. I can be late sometimes, but I always reply. If you want to send an email, keep the subject simple and short. “Hi” or “Hello” is more than enough.
How to say my name:
Pronounced like,
- Palash â Paw (like a paw of a cat) + Glass (like a a mirror and stuff)
- Bauri â Baa (like the sound a sheep makes) + Ow (from Cow) + Ree (from Reboot)
Other Interesting Pages:
- iWatched â My Personal Rating of Movies, Dramas, and Anime I Have Watched.