Sunday, January 26, 2020

Going Bangalore way

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I was chatting with a visiting old boy who has got an IT job in Bangalore a year ago, lives in a ‘PG’, and has been pressing me, as do so...
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Saturday, January 18, 2020

Way to go, Rudra and Tanmoy

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My old boy Tanmoy, living in faraway New Zealand, has recently revived his blog , this time powered by his bright young son Rudra. They ha...
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Saturday, January 11, 2020

Thank you, Sir

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Mr. A. R. Parameswaran, revered mathematics teacher to three generations, including mine at St. Xavier’s Durgapur, passed away on the 2...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Adieu, 2019

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God is being good to me. Durgapur was shrouded in fog on Monday the 23rd, so it was a miracle that my flight took off hardly half an h...
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Saturday, December 14, 2019

Mid-December notes

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Glad to see that Tales from bygone days has been visited by a lot of people, probably because I provided a link in a recent post. There ...
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Saturday, November 30, 2019

To those whose classes just ended

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Remember the blogposts I told you about on the last day: To those about to become ex students and Bye bye time again . Remember, als...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Updating my web diary

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I have been hibernating away from the blogs for a while now – by my own standards, that is – and musing over how the pageviews counter go...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

The experience of writing about Abhijit Banerjee

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I have been reading the papers and scanning social media commentary in this country closely in connection with the subject since the day ...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Abhijit Banerjee honoured

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I read in today's newspaper that Dr. Abhijit Banerjee, professor of Economics at MIT, ex-Presidency College, JNU and Harvard, has been...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

Knowledge, science, governance - and minds

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Suppose one has learnt quite a bit of high-school/junior college physics, meaning he knows all about things like Newton’s laws and equati...
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Monday, October 07, 2019

Travelling, on holiday

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Ever since the heady days of childhood silliness ended, I have always been quite sure that if you want to really enjoy a cricket match (as...
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Wednesday, October 02, 2019

Gandhi, 150 years

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Albert Einstein said 'Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth....
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Saturday, September 28, 2019

Mahalaya again

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আজ আবার মহালয়া। আকাশ মেঘাচ্ছন্ন, ভোরবেলা থেকে বৃষ্টি হচ্ছে, কখনো টিপটিপ, কখনো ঝিরঝির।  তিন-চার দিন ধরে এই চলছে, তাই হাওয়াটা বেশ ঠান্ডা, জল...
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Monday, September 23, 2019

Writing on the wall

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Two years ago, in a dark and anxious mood, I wrote a post here titled Farewell to Tagore? Do look it up. And in this connection, read Pro...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Still more cars and bikes?

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I am now getting fed to the gills over the collective breast beating in the media about the slump in automobile sales. There’s so much s...
Saturday, August 31, 2019

Addendum to the 'Population Bomb' post

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If India’s population could have been held down even to the 1971 level (around 550 million – which would be gigantic by any standards a...
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