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 ...
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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Friday, May 23, 2025

Blogs, books and YouTube

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 I am jotting down several passing ideas here before they fly away: Seventeen years ago I wrote a post titled 'Forty five and counting...
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Sunday, May 11, 2025

AI rising, NI sinking

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I still read The Telegraph of Calcutta daily, despite all the fluff and the garbage, and today the same paper carried two very, very thought...
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Thursday, May 01, 2025

Nor'wester!

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I just want to put this on record: after many, many years, it is actually cold here today, on May the first! After the third kaalbaishakhi ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

What's happening?

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Rest assured, readers, I haven't forgotten this blog. Just been coping with summer, and new batches, and enthusiastically recording and ...
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Friday, April 04, 2025

Start of new podcast series

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I have been urged and prodded to start telling stories anew on the internet. I am using both YouTube and Spotify to post the files. I shall ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

End-March diary entry

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February and March went off with reasonably balmy weather on the whole this time, thanks to the unseasonal but very welcome drizzles last we...
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Thursday, March 13, 2025

Last trip of the season

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My travel season started early this time round, with the Ooty-Mudumalai trip in October, and ended with a visit to the Dooars in North Benga...
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Saturday, February 15, 2025

The life of the spirit, part four

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Now, to answer the questions that I myself raised at the end of the last post on this subject. Materially speaking, I had a difficult earl...
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Thursday, February 06, 2025

Kanha, paradise

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(click on photo for larger view) I made a whistle-stop trip to Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh last week, flying out from Kolkata to R...
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