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Independent Scholar. Polymath.

Is India Poor?

Posted on February 11, 2025 by secondsaturn

It is true that poverty in India has declined. It has declined in absolute terms to just about 4.62% of the population, a massive step up from the 66% we had at the time of Independence. It is also true … Continue reading →

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Asha Purna Devi, 8th January 1909 to 13th July 1995

Posted on January 13, 2025 by secondsaturn

On the 8th of January the media and social media celebrated the birth anniversary of Ashapurna Devi, a prolific novelist of Bengali language who never ceases to fascinate her readers by the sheer volume of her work and by the … Continue reading →

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Raj Kapoor on 100

Posted on December 8, 2024 by secondsaturn

Dastangoi’s production on Raj Kapoor, like each of its productions is an experience to listen to and watch as well. Based on a resurrected form of storytelling lost to the past few centuries, Dastangos, as in the storytellers recreate a … Continue reading →

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Valmiki Pratibha

Posted on November 22, 2024 by secondsaturn

Valmiki Pratibha: Performance directed by Alokanda Roy with the prison inmates and staff of Presidency Jail, West Bengal. Dr Susmita Dasgupta On the 17th of November 2024, Alokananda Roy’s production of the 100th and final stage show of Tagore’s dance … Continue reading →

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Ram vs Krishna

Posted on October 11, 2024 by secondsaturn

A young professor at a reputed University uses a novel method to teach about myths; he uses film stars and their fandom to explain the popularity of Ram or Krishna. This ingenious way of teaching has the power to immediately … Continue reading →

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The Illusion of Progress: Gadgets vs. Real Education in India

Posted on September 21, 2024 by secondsaturn

Last afternoon I visited an exhibition in Yashobhumi, Dwarka in Delhi. Organized by the India Didactics Association, the exhibition promoted by the Ministry of Medium and Small-Scale Industries, is a gathering of so-called educators whose principal product across the board … Continue reading →

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House Work

Posted on August 5, 2024 by secondsaturn

Man or woman, young or old, stay at home or working, married or single, living in a family or all by oneself, everyone must know how to do housework. Housework is a genre which encompasses a wide range of diverse, … Continue reading →

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Soil Erosion and Its Sociology

Posted on July 11, 2024 by secondsaturn

This monsoon, Madhusree and I, residents of a suburb in Faridabad, planned for a holiday in a small village farm of Sirohi in the district of Faridabad. It was a fairly large farm, perhaps a small holding in terms of … Continue reading →

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India General Elections 2024 – All Parties Are Fascists

Posted on June 2, 2024 by secondsaturn

The campaign speeches for the General Elections of 2024 tells us that fascism, when it comes to roost is a general phenomenon and not restricted to a single party or ideology. The attribute of fascism, like a pandemic is that … Continue reading →

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Industries of West Bengal

Posted on May 23, 2024 by secondsaturn

The Trinamool Congress has posted a list of some 70 odd industrial units which have been closed during the life and times of the CPM in Bengal. This is a snide comment on the supposed promise to give jobs made … Continue reading →

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