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About secondsaturn

Independent Scholar. Polymath.

15th September, Sarat Chandra Chatterjee

Posted on September 15, 2020

Today is the birth anniversary of Sarat Chandra Chattpadhyay, the greatest novelist that India has ever known, perhaps the greatest in the world, if the impact factor is taken in. He wrote in Bengali and has been the world’s most … Continue reading →

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Indian Secularism

Posted on September 10, 2020

My friend Reshmi Bhaskaran asked us through her Facebook posting what secularism was? On the face of things, secularism, by its European definition would be the ineffectuality of religion in the affairs of politics and of public life since ideas … Continue reading →

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Detective and the Thriller

Posted on September 7, 2020

Culture, taste, literature/detective Detective vs the thriller Sociology of literary genres August 2020 Last week I finished reading two books on the Amazon kindle, one was a detective story and the other one was a thriller. Women in their early … Continue reading →

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Movie Making In The Mind… Suraj and Vikas Yadav

Posted on August 8, 2020

How Do We Watch Films? Vikas Dubey’s Death On the 9th of July 2020, Vikas Dubey a dreaded gangster of Kanpur died in a police encounter. Weeks before he died, he killed eight policemen at point bank range when they … Continue reading →

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Steel Authority of India Limited

Posted on July 12, 2020

SAIL was set up in 1954, on the 19th of January with head quarters in Kolkata. Born out of the Industrial Committee Report of 1951 led by Subimal Dutt, SAIL was to use public money to build capital where only … Continue reading →

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Rituparna Ghosh into Eternity

Posted on July 1, 2020

Rituparna’s Eternity On the 31st of May 2020, the anniversary of Rituparna Ghosh’s cross over day from a body with a soul to just a soul in the eternity of time, I read through his writings published in two volumes … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 2, 2020

Shakespeare as a Social Scientist This is not out of boredom of the lock down, I have far too much in my schedule to find time even during these days. I have been pursuing Shakespeare for quite some time now, … Continue reading →

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The Famine of 1943 and the Partition in 1947 – Bengal Crisis

Posted on May 1, 2020

Bill Gates predicted the epidemic and during this epidemic said that the fight against the virus is uniting the whole world. While he was right on his first prediction, he went horribly wrong in his second one as the pandemic … Continue reading →

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Corona Cadaver, Notes on the Covid 19

Posted on April 1, 2020

These days I think a lot about Dida, my maternal, grandmother, especially of the day of Nabami when in her village, Nirole she tumbled down the steps of the Kamakhya mandir and broke her crown. Boromama was fortunately present there … Continue reading →

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Bura Na Mano, Holi Hai

Posted on March 12, 2020

I used to be a Holi enthusiast in school; I simply loved Holi as a sport of running, ducking, springing surprise on one another with attacks of aabir or pichkiri and then of course the coming together of the adults … Continue reading →

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