Last Wednesday, April 15, 2026, I gave an informal talk at Azim Premji University (Bengaluru) on online safety to a bunch of undergraduate students from liberal arts, humanities and social science departments (Computing Club).
Its been over 4 years since I’ve given any talk. I was terribly out of shape and practice. I made too many slides for a 45 minutes talk and took more than 60 minutes to finish it!
It wasn’t bad but could have been much better had I practiced it for a day or two. Or I should have kept the content dense and focused more on keeping it interactive which is always a good idea with younger audience.
The audience were undergrads so they acted in usual and expected ways. A few were interested or at least sitting and listening politely. Some were there for reasons unknowns and doing their own things. A few were napping as well :-).
It took me 2 hours to travel to the university via cab. I get to meet my classmate from doctoral days :-).
I used Claude to make images using tikz and copy edit the slides.