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Independent Scholar. Polymath.

Tagore on 25th Boisakh 1421

Posted on June 26, 2014 by secondsaturn

I write this note to say how much I enjoyed and felt enlightened with Dr Uma Dasgupta’s expositions on Tagore. I have returned after a long gap of absence from these addas partly due to unavoidable situations at home but … Continue reading →

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Colonialism and Bollywood

Posted on May 24, 2014 by secondsaturn

I am again thinking on colonialism whether or not it was a kind of emasculation of India; to my mind, it was not. Indians were not really independent before the British because for most Indians, the long centuries of Muslim … Continue reading →

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Modi versus Mamata

Posted on May 21, 2014 by secondsaturn

http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-bengal-model-of-development-1990076  

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Chronicles of a Life In Death Remembered

Posted on May 5, 2014 by secondsaturn

On the 20th April 2014, Sunday, at 11.30 pm my Jyathamoshai, known to all as Montu and to us as Jethu passed away in Chennai. Ma and I had just rushed in the last ten minutes of his being alive … Continue reading →

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Bollywood and Diaspora

Posted on April 5, 2014 by secondsaturn

Ritwik Mallik, India’s youngest published author, called up to gather some inputs from me for an essay which his friend was writing on Bollywood and Diaspora. These questions put me in a bind especially when suddenly asked out of the … Continue reading →

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PRDG At Shantiniketan

Posted on April 5, 2014 by secondsaturn

My father, who had never had to build his own house, having inherited a largish mansion from his father, my grandfather, decided that he indeed needed to have his own space and built a tiny but a picturesque cottage off … Continue reading →

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Holi Hyay….

Posted on March 18, 2014 by secondsaturn

Holi Hyay… Holi is unique to North India and has no parallel anywhere else in the world. This uniqueness is indeed an anthropological wonder, unfortunately never studied by anthropologists. Equally unfortunate is the fact that no historian of India has … Continue reading →

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Muddleheaded Middle Class

Posted on February 9, 2014 by secondsaturn

The Khirkee episode reminds me of a similar incident about seven years ago in Dayalbagh. In those days Dayalbagh was only a fifth as full as it is today and with new buildings coming up the neighbourhood was upbeat about … Continue reading →

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The Life Trajectory of Krishna Dasgupta a.k.a Suchitra Sen

Posted on January 19, 2014 by secondsaturn

I did not know till I heard it on television on the reminiscences of her biographer that Roma Dasgupta was enrolled as Krishna Dasgupta in school. I also had no idea that during her wedding ceremony, Roma refused to wear … Continue reading →

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Politics of Sexuality – Article 377

Posted on January 9, 2014 by secondsaturn

India’s is the world’s longest written Constitution that way back in 1950 assured equality and liberty to women, poor, illiterate, homeless, orphans, oppressed and the marginalized . Yet, as is revealed, a core of repressive conservatism remained in the form … Continue reading →

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