Life, Dreams and Reality -- Sohel's Blog

When I logged back into this old blog after so many years away, I expected dust, silence, and maybe a few broken links. Instead, I found something unexpected: people are still reading a piece I wrote nineteen years ago, an article about optical cloaking, back when the idea felt like a fragile spark from the edge of science fiction. Curiosity got the better of me. What happened to that technology I once wrote about with such excitement? Back then, cloaking was mostly theoretical, an elegant mathematical possibility built on metamaterials and transformation optics. The physics was promising, but the real world had not yet caught up. So I went searching. To my surprise, the field has not only survived, it has matured. Researchers have pushed optical cloaking far beyond the early conceptual stage. Over the last two decades, it has grown into a serious scientific discipline, with real prototypes and expanding applications. A 2021 review describes how invisibility research has “blossomed...

I haven’t written anything on this blog for several years. That doesn’t mean I stopped writing, far from it. I’ve always loved writing. I simply shifted my words to Facebook for a while. But this space… this is the blog I started many years ago. I was one of the early bloggers, writing almost from the moment the internet found its way into everyday life. Back then, I published in various online magazines and newspapers during those pioneering days of the web. The world has changed so much in the years since. The internet and its surrounding technologies have seeped into nearly every corner of human life. Many of these changes have been wonderfully positive. Learning has become easier than ever. Watching a good movie or TV show takes only a few taps, and the choices feel endless. Gaming has evolved into entirely new dimensions. I can carry an entire library with me, on a dedicated e‑reader or simply on my phone, with every device syncing effortlessly. Even when I’m driving through moun...