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Independent Scholar. Polymath.

Music of the Muses – Brahmo Sangeet From Raja Rammohan to Tagore

Posted on December 8, 2019 by secondsaturn

Last evening I attended a lecture demonstration by Srenanda Mukherjee organized by Sohini tracing out the path of the Brahmo sangeet from Raja Rammohan Roy to Rabindranath Tagore (The vowel in Brahmo being pronounced as the O in oval). Brahmo … Continue reading →

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Ashok Kumar Ganguly alias Kumud

Posted on November 20, 2019 by secondsaturn

Ashok Kumar’s biography has been much written. By Divine Grace the actor lived long and in full alertness of the mind and in good health and spoke freely to those who sought him out for interviews and a longer engagement. … Continue reading →

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The Sister and Her Brother

Posted on October 9, 2019 by secondsaturn

This is the story of the sister and her brother, both superstars, one the highest awardee in India and the other of Pakistan. The sister is known as Lata Mangeshkar and her brother, though born as Yousuf Khan is better … Continue reading →

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Mystery of the Dipping Auto Sales

Posted on September 9, 2019 by secondsaturn

Most of us, who have been born well and belonged to well endowed families often look upon the consumption of stuff by the less endowed as being aspirational. We imagine that they are imitating us when they buy their refrigerators … Continue reading →

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Sociology of Winning Societies, Losing Societies

Posted on August 13, 2019 by secondsaturn

I am visiting Chennai with mother in what is likely to become an annual affair from now on. My cousin and her family are dedicated doctors to say the least, fantastic in diagnosis and peerless in commitments to patients. Besides, … Continue reading →

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Kashi Viswanath

Posted on July 18, 2019 by secondsaturn

It was getting a bit too much that Madhusree was yet to see the Viswanath Temple of Benaras. So, braving the hot and humid weather, we set afoot in the city, booked a day taxi travelled across its lanes and … Continue reading →

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All Wrong With Arong

Posted on June 6, 2019 by secondsaturn

Arong has been in the news ostensibly because it arbitrarily raised the prices of its products just as the Id shopping was heating up. The consumer affairs officer was called in, who inspected and closed the retail outlet. However, in … Continue reading →

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BJP and the Twilight of the Idols

Posted on May 20, 2019 by secondsaturn

In the early thirteenth century, says Richard Eaton, one Mr Ikhtiyar bin Bakhtiyar Khiljee overran Bengal with merely forty horsemen. Lakhhan Sen, the then ruler of Bengal was having his dinner and upon hearing the marauding Afghans, quietly fled without … Continue reading →

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Vinci Da

Posted on April 15, 2019 by secondsaturn

This is quite a joke among our girls Ghalib gang that we the single women on the wrong side of the 50’s is increasingly finding ourselves marginalized even if we have a room of our own. Ghalib becomes our reference … Continue reading →

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Sorrow in Spring a.k.a Basanta Bilap

Posted on March 24, 2019 by secondsaturn

Aniruddha Rakshit posted Late Chinmoy Roy’s photo with the caption Basanta Bilap. This caption is the inspiration for this modest post. Chinmoy Roy was the star in my spring; interestingly he had also a strange appeal for our more girly … Continue reading →

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