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Debarshi in the Netherlands 24 Aug 2013 | 12:23 pm
My favourite old boy Debarshi has just gone off to the Netherlands, to do a master's course in engineering at the University of Delft. He has written the following little essay about his first impress...
The Sen-Bhagwati 'debate', part two 15 Aug 2013 | 07:44 am
The Pioneer of Delhi carried this article of mine yesterday. My bit for Independence Day this year. To pick up the threads from where I left off in the last post: First of all, despite being as keen...
The Sen-Bhagwati 'debate' 10 Aug 2013 | 09:58 pm
Some of my most favourite readers have been asking me for my take on the currently raging debate between the two famous economists of Indian origin, Amartya Sen and Jagdish Bhagwati, over how central ...
Ha! 2 Aug 2013 | 09:56 pm
To start with, here's the link to the post titled 'Bye bye time again'. It will help my current senior batch, who will be leaving in a few months' time. After you have read that post, don't forget to ...
Language, for the love of God, language! 30 Jul 2013 | 11:33 pm
Every human mind, wrote Nehru, is ‘a private universe of thought and feeling’, and no other human can look into it, except in rare (and usually faulty) glimpses. This is all the more true of intellige...
She(y) 24 Jul 2013 | 07:46 pm
আস্তে আস্তে স্তব্ধ দ্বিপ্রহরে আকাশ ঘন কালো মেঘে সজল হয়ে উঠলো, চারিদিকে নিবিড় স্নেহভরা প্রশান্ত অন্ধকার ছেয়ে এলো, ভারী স্নিগ্ধ গা শিরশিরে একটা মৃদুমন্দ বাতাস এসে সর্বাঙ্গে হাত বুলিয়ে দিতে লাগলো পরম...
Dutta vs. Dutta 15 Jul 2013 | 05:41 pm
It is no longer news that Bangla cinema is going through a renaissance of sorts: it’s been years since I used to say that I’d rather watch even Bollywood potboilers. Anjan Dutta’s Dutta vs. Dutta, tho...
Yearning 5 Jul 2013 | 12:28 pm
Some people have been reading my short stories, and asking for more. Here is one I wrote (or rather composed orally, dictating in class, when they told me the board examination paper had asked them to...
Taking stock once more 28 Jun 2013 | 12:56 pm
My daughter has had an interesting and (for her-) new experience. Read about it here. This is one of the reasons I have sent her off to a big city, awful as the wrench has been. Rashmi in her latest ...
Khaled Hosseini's third 21 Jun 2013 | 08:17 am
There are very few living authors about whom I’d say to someone who is serious about books ‘Don’t die before you have read him’. And I happen to know something about books. Khaled Hosseini is one of t...
