Sunday, December 07, 2025

Saibal Biswas

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I mentioned Saibal in my January 2025 post titled Kanha, Paradise . I am proud to call Saibal my friend. That is not an expression I use lig...
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Friday, November 28, 2025

A big landmark reached

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Last weekend of November approaching. As in every year for almost a quarter century, I am closing off the outgoing batches of students. Toda...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

A lament for English... going, going, gone

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As I have said here and aloud to many face to face, the English language has been one of the deepest and most abiding loves of my life. I st...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Good prospects?

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All my life I have seen and heard that India, overall, is in a bad way ( 'e deshtar kichhu hobe na' , this country has no future, is...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Civic sense? In India?!

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In its October 27th edition, The Telegraph of Calcutta carried an editorial titled Stubborn Stain, covering the highlights of the first ev...
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Saturday, October 25, 2025

What's your work/life balance?

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There has been a lot of chatter lately on - where else - social media about how important the idea of work/life balance is, and how relevant...
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Tuesday, October 07, 2025

The hills once again

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Beginning 1971, when I was all of eight years old, I have been visiting north Bengal continually but after long intervals. This year I did i...
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Thursday, September 18, 2025

Troubling ruminations

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Driving recently through Kolkata, I saw a touching sign right in front of the main gate of Fort William (newly named Vijay Durg): 'Want ...
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Saturday, September 06, 2025

Rain, rain, go away!

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This has been one of the longest rainy seasons in living memory. I wish the rains would stop now - and I didn't think I'd ever say t...
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Friday, August 08, 2025

My own education via YouTube

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Having become a content creator (storyteller) on YouTube, I am using the app much more frequently than before. And it is becoming quite an e...
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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Crore+ salaries, golden eggs and such things

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  The Telegraph reported on July 26 that the director of IIT Kharagpur, addressing a meeting of parents in the context of repeated cases of ...
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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Recent stimuli for my brain

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Thanks to Indranil Panigrahi, one of my favourite old boys who have kept continuously in touch since leaving school nearly three decades ago...
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Friday, July 11, 2025

AI brilliance for my YouTube story

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Something laughably stupid happened only the other day while I was experimenting with AI (Meta/Llama). I asked it to draw me a cartoon of a ...
Monday, June 30, 2025

This and that

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Good to see that many old posts are coming back into the most-read list again. I wonder, though, why A most frightening prospect , written a...
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Monday, June 16, 2025

Accidents and happier things

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My heartfelt condolences for all those families who were bereaved by the catastrophic Air India Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad on 12th June. ...
Sunday, June 01, 2025

Turning into Sidhu Jyatha

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I spent another deliciously restful and deeply satisfying week in Kolkata with my daughter and Swarnava. In a hundred little ways I am growi...
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Thursday, May 29, 2025

On AI again

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It so happens that I am getting worried, and I do NOT think I am worrying needlessly. One thing to remember: mankind invented everything tha...
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