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Independent Scholar. Polymath.

AMRI Fire : Could Sociology Help?

Posted on December 10, 2011 by secondsaturn

My friend has invited me to a candle light vigil at Kolkata’s Hazra crossing to mourn for those dead in the AMRI hospital fire, the worst ever since the Guatamela fire at the mental hospital during the World War II … Continue reading →

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Murder Of The Maobadi – Mamata’s Fatal Flaw?

Posted on December 2, 2011 by secondsaturn

As early in her life as now Bengal’s Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee has murder on her hands; the stain of the Maoist blood will be difficult to wash off and the assassination of Kishenji might well be her fatal flaw. … Continue reading →

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Edmund de Waal – Hare With Amber Eyes, A Hidden Inheritance

Posted on November 6, 2011 by secondsaturn

Karl Marx wrote his essay, On The Jewish Question in 1844 to contest a thesis by Bruno Bauer how Judaism as a religion directly conflicts with the interests of a modern and free political society. Judaism is a religion of … Continue reading →

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Karwa Chauth

Posted on November 4, 2011 by secondsaturn

My friend Dr Kalinath Jha, a feminist sociologist has asked of us in facebook whether Karwa Chauth is a festival that abrogates a woman’s dignity by asking her to pray for her husband’s long life especially in view of the … Continue reading →

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Formula One Car Races : Who Won?

Posted on November 4, 2011 by secondsaturn
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O Sonia Re

Posted on August 28, 2011 by secondsaturn

On the 24th of August 2011, on the twelfth night after her surgery, in the USA, notes reached Sonia Gandhi in her convalescence informing her of the impasse between the people and the political class over the Anna Hazare movement. … Continue reading →

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Hazaar Hazaar Hazaare….

Posted on August 23, 2011 by secondsaturn

As thousands throng thoroughfares of metropolises holding candles against the dusk and wearing skull hugging caps saying I am Anna Hazare, there is something very critical that gets formulated. Anna is not merely fighting corruption; he is doing something else … Continue reading →

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Shammi..at the end of the day

Posted on August 17, 2011 by secondsaturn

Shammi Kapoor died on the early morning of the 14th of August 2011, succumbing to a chronic renal malfunction. Fortuitously, I was reading about one of the possible causes of the malady as being chronic adrenaline fatigue, a possibility that … Continue reading →

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Dadu, too much..

Posted on August 13, 2011 by secondsaturn

Dadu, my father’s father died on this day, i.e the 13th of August in 1976. This is thirty five years before now. I think that with every passing year, his presence just grows on the family; each year Dadu seems … Continue reading →

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Seeing Off Na Mama

Posted on July 24, 2011 by secondsaturn

Na Mama, Na being pronounced as in naughty, a name for the fourth born in a family, implied something very specific when he said that he was seeing someone off. He used the term see off to mean one who … Continue reading →

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