Every IPO cycle in India comes with the same familiar excitement. A company opens for subscription, WhatsApp groups start discussing GMP, retail investors rush to apply through every Demat account available, and the biggest question becomes: will this list at a premium?

This project began with that very practical question, but I wanted to answer it with data rather than anecdotes:

Is investing in Indian IPOs actually profitable, and which pre-listing signals best predict IPO success?

The result is a quantitative study of Indian IPOs across mainboard, SME, and GMP-era datasets, covering listing-day gains, oversubscription, grey market premium, market phase, holding periods, long-run performance, and machine learning based screening. The analysis uses web-scraped IPO data, API-collected GMP data, Yahoo Finance enrichment, and statistical tests designed for heavily skewed financial data.

This blog post explores my 2025Q1 Kaggle Gen AI Intensive Course Capstone project, where I built an AI-powered research assistant to automate web searches, content extraction, summarization, and report generation. The assistant uses Retrieval Augmented Generation, embeddings for semantic search, and document understanding to deliver polished, relevant reports in minutes, tackling information overload for students and professionals. Future enhancements may include source validation and multi-modal support.

Open source is a place where people from all over the world work together on code, a place for experienced developers, I wasn’t sure I belonged there. But then, in January 2025, I made my first contribution and merged my first pull request (PR) and that changed everything for me.

We want to come up with an alphabet (a set of symbols) that are mechanically distinguishable easily from scanned images (OCR) and are easy to write by hand. And hence develop an optical character recognition software for the same.

This was a group project I had done in the second semester at ISI Kolkata.

In the following article we will see how chroma keying or green screen removal works, and how can we approach the problem.

In the following article learn about Open Source and how you can contribute in Open Source Organizations.