Monday, May 28, 2012

Midsummer musing

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Several unconnected musings for this time. We are going through the worst part of summer. What with temperatures soaring to 47 0 C com...
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Monday, May 21, 2012

Teaching children rot

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I was marking a comprehension exercise done by a pupil for homework. It told a story about how the great German painter Albrecht Durer a...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

Thinking about words

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Language keeps ever changing, like a tree shedding old branches and putting out new ones, or like a river that never stops shifting cou...
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Monday, May 07, 2012

Is all 'work' work?

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I watch cycle-van pullers sweating as they drag along huge loads in the blazing sun, and I watch government clerks lounging away i...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Wife beating? why not?

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This newspaper report , based on the findings of a recent UNICEF survey, draws attention to exactly the kind of serious and very unplea...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Troublesome freedom

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I do not always write for children here (and there are a lot of 50-year old children around these days, I know), so here’s some serious...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Taking stock, post the 100,000 milestone

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Well, first of all, the visit count has officially crossed the 100,000 mark now (actually it did so a couple of months ago), and these days ...
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Sunday, April 08, 2012

Ten years of flying solo - yay!

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Today is a day I can call a red-letter day in my life without dramatic exaggeration. It was exactly ten years ago that I tendered my re...
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Monday, April 02, 2012

Engineer or bust!

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A small boy who has just finished his secondary level board examinations (ICSE) came to see me the other day to say hello, to ask after...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

"If winter comes..."

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When I was going up to class 12 (in St. Xavier’s Collegiate School, Calcutta), they sent me to participate in a ‘creative writing’ comp...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The legend of Shiva

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Amish Tripathi’s Shiva trilogy has gripped me strongly. Book One, The Immortals of Meluha , and Book Two, The Secret of the Nagas I have ...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Growing up in Durgapur

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What was Durgapur like in the days when I was growing up here? Much quieter than it is these days, of course, much greener and with much mo...
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Friday, March 09, 2012

Landmarks coming up

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I am getting a little excited now – and as my readers know, I don’t use that word easily. Two reasons: the number of members publicly follow...
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Friday, March 02, 2012

Lost in the great blue yonder

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Sputnik went up in 1957, Gagarin went out into space in 1961, Alexei Leonov made the first space walk shortly after. Then the alarmed and i...
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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Actors don't just act!

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We in India expect the government to do everything for us that we cannot do ourselves – from getting rid of garbage daily to caring for the ...
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Monday, February 20, 2012

But the sun also rises

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Since I ended the last post by saying I have always tried to be keenly sensible of whatever little goodness I have seen around me, let me re...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

On being mean, and petty, and foolish

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Despite being publicity-shy, I put up a sign in front of my house seven or eight years ago, with ‘Suvro-sir’ on it, and an arrow pointing to...
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