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Independent Scholar. Polymath. Thinks ahead of time. Insights go spaces human minds are yet to explore. Innovator. Imaginator. Problem Solver. Enterprise Developer.

Snehalata’s Suicide

Posted on December 16, 2014 by secondsaturn

On the 30th January 1914, Snehalata, a yet to be married teenager doused herself in kerosene and set her own body afire. According to the eyewitnesses who tried to rescue her, Snehalata had committed suicide. She pleaded her kin not … Continue reading →

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On Bhai Phnota Day.. Some Random Thoughts

Posted on November 3, 2014 by secondsaturn

When the autumn holidays and the delirious celebrations of the festivals would draw to a close and we would scurry everywhere to collect our school exercise books, pens, maps, atlases and the books and notebooks, bhai phnota would be our only … Continue reading →

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Amma – Empress of Tamil Nadu

Posted on October 8, 2014 by secondsaturn

So the deed was done; in the days of the early autumn of 2014, Ms Jayalalitha, the ruling Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu was sentenced to four years of imprisonment on charges of corruption. Ms Jayalalitha, or Amma as she … Continue reading →

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Hum Log 30 Years Ago and Hence – A Page From History

Posted on September 28, 2014 by secondsaturn

Those were the days of Humlog. ..

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Sova Thama

Posted on August 26, 2014 by secondsaturn

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Autumn Without Mashi

Posted on July 22, 2014 by secondsaturn

My mother has an older and a younger sister of her own and yet she was the only one who I called Mashi; no proper noun as a prefix which I usually have for my mother’s friends. Just Mashi. Plain … Continue reading →

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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

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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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