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Rat kills printer 2008-08-24 13:25:00 Stop press: CALCUTTA. 24th August 2008.Our Special Correspondent: A REAL BLACK RAT had barged into the first-floor rented apartment of the old colonial city and killed an unsuspecting printer a week ago. The two-week-old "corpse" was officially "declared dead" on Sunday. The rat is still on the loose."This is an extremely unfortunate affair," said the visibly bereaved Mr. Buroangle, 208 year-old,
Memory of images 2008-08-21 14:44:00 Human beings can understand nothing without images, said the eccentric called Thomas Aquinas, and I guess he was right to insist at the same time that these images are mostly phantoms. So if you're working with your memory on the vacuity of substances, expressions, purity of faith, prohibition of imagination and so forth, you're probably restructuring the smoky images you have of them in your mind Read more:Memory
Twelve rules for perfect tea-drinking 2008-08-19 00:27:00 What are the twelve golden rules for tea-drinkers? What makes the perfect cup of tea? Let me invite you to a problem. If you haven't noticed, there are few railway stations in Bengal which still sport the almost-century-old colonial-era advertisements promoting tea-drinking. The mystery lies there. Needless to say, these have been missed out by the Archaeological Survey of India and frantic journa Read more:Twelve
absence of speech 2008-08-16 14:35:00 "Language is not eternal.It will be replaced.We are not going to talk for ever."
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Fifteen minus four 2008-08-12 06:19:00 Never! Never in my lifetime had I been to the first class that started at 10.20 in the morning. I simply hated it. Most of my classmates probably thought it had something to do with my complex communistic principles, a conscious act of defiance against the bourgeois university system, essentially typified in the 10.20 class, which denied students the right to sleep till noon.But today, post 9.30, Read more:Fifteen
In search of answers: A Visit to the Oracle 2008-08-09 17:26:00 Pythia, the old Oracle
of Delphi is no more. But there is another oracular namesake that gives you supposedly intelligent answers
. Troubled with life as it is, I went looking for enlightenment. You can go there too, if you know where to search for, and importantly, the questions to ask. I'll be providing you with the address, but if you care to, go through the questions that I asked and the Oracle
Liver of the Dead 2008-08-06 14:12:00 It's a strange tale and it goes like this:In the village of Hammer near Czernikowo many years ago there lived a young married couple. The wife loved to eat liver and could not live if she didn't eat a liver every day. One day she sent her husband once again to town to fetch a liver. However, in Czernikowo the husband met a group of young merrymakers and went with them to a tavern, where he drank a Read more:Liver
dreaming of dragons 2008-08-01 02:04:00 In China there was once a man who liked pictures of dragons, and his clothing and furnishings were all designed accordingly. His deep affection for dragons was brought to the attention of the dragon god, and one day a real dragon appeared before his window.It is said that he died of fright.(from Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo)
After a day of intense neurotic reading 2008-07-24 14:34:00 A sound is lost in the continuous deafening noise that they still call language, and you feel like a specialist in repetition. Repetition, as a distinct category of social existence, i.e. the separation of all the capitulative decisions that determine our lives from the execution of different arrived-at decisions. This transformative pattern of repetitiveness is simply a matter of degrees, of one
On liquid recollections 2008-07-17 12:52:00 Close to the rented house a diseased old mango tree stands shivering in the midnight rain. I had never seen it before, for there used to be a house in the middle, obstructing my view for over a year. A gaping hole on the ground, and some rain-drowned debris, marks the house's absence. But the leaves of the tree tremble in the dark, the relentless rain makes a strange pattern of awareness or memory
Drawing the perfect crab 2008-07-13 22:54:00 The king asked Chuang-tzu, an expert draftsman, to draw a crab.Chuang-tzu replied that he needed five years, a country house, and twelve servants.Five years later the drawing was still not begun."I need another five years," said Chuang-tzu. The king granted them.At the end of these ten years, Chuang-tzu took up his brush and, in an instant, with a single stroke, he drew a crab, the most perfect cr
Kari and the River of Memories 2008-07-12 07:53:00 Though the marshes, ponds and lagoon-lakes have vanished from the urban Indian cityscape, in deep cavernous spaces within the multiple minds of the archetypal Indian city, flows a strange river. The buildings seem to rise on it. But look closer, the silent river flows underneath. This silent river, that mystic river, is not Lethe, honey; and it’s not Mnemosyne either. This river feeds on me Read more:River
I got proof 2008-07-07 12:54:00 Finally. And it's official. The clerks at the district college kept me waiting for 3 hours, but at around two o'clock, I had it in my hand.The certificate. The atavism of this confused pudding. The material of the muffled metaphor. I had cleared high school ten years back.The baboo I had talked to on my earlier visit was absent, and it was strange to find, after the time spent on "requests, remind
Picturing Gorkhaland: Via Darjeeling and the Bengali mind 2008-07-05 14:15:00 (Spot the screamer: At Darjeeling taxi stand. June, 2008.Click on the image for an enlarged view)I had been waiting for the pictures to appear. Pictures that would prevent me from saying overtly political things in this precious little space I had saved for myself.But my photographic senses let me down; the negatives carried only the dark shades surrounding the images I had hoped to register. And
Find Dangerous Drugs Here: "Reiteration" 2008-07-04 04:37:00 India has become a dumping ground for banned medicine; also the business of producing that is booming. Apart from spurious medicine sold from registered medicine shops, there are some dangerous drugs that have been globally discarded, but are freely available in India, with or without the doctor's prescriptions.Never did I know that Enteroquinol, the one I used to pop in from time to time, caused Read more:Drugs
Carry Away Relics 2008-07-02 00:50:00 Which is more real?The memories of the past or the forgetfulness of the present?An awareness of a forgotten cultural inheritance, or the blissful fecundity of a governmental apathy? I really don't know...Far into the rural regions of the Birbhum district, the last traces of a once-powerful Buddhist cultural community of Bengal now await their final obliteration in the hands of antiquity smugglers. Read more:Carry
Tree-faced sanity 2008-07-01 15:19:00 Societal culture had always created a slew of new poseurs with affectations and idiosyncrasies that sane people earlier found easy to ridicule.True, in the crux of that ridicule lay ignorance, apathy, superstition, political blinkers or cultural incomprehensibility, and the hostility of a people who considered themselves hypothetically sane; sanity was, and is, always a confusing term. The constan
"The Noble Purpose", or How to Easily File a PhD Application 2008-06-28 06:39:00 Regret having to write this. But, better late; than never.Every return teaches you something. But learn to be careful about filing applications.It'll save you time if you are a last year's man, and it will also serve a "noble purpose", as I learned on Monday.I had been to the university PhD cell, armed to the teeth with my proposal and registration form, photocopies and tattered original document Read more:Application
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House-break 2008-06-18 00:25:00 Houses are crumbling. Houses are crumbling all around. Right next to this first-floor rented apartment in south Kolkata, the sounds overwhelm, confuse.You wake up hearing the dull thud of hammers falling on brick, lime, and mortar, frozen in time, outside your southern windows ; the intolerable screech of the "mosaic-machine" hits you from the east, time is wet and whirring, the morning sun has al Read more:House
First hand invigilation 2008-06-17 08:21:00 Your purpose is to stay awake. For you function as a verb, dating 1553. Remember kid, your etymology derives from Latin invigilatus, past participle of invigilare, to stay awake; be watchful. You keep watching from the first-floor balcony. “Parents and guardians are not to be allowed inside. I REPEAT, YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED INSIDE,” screams a kid, in a black departmental T-shirt, who’ Read more:First
Secret of Business Management 2008-06-13 13:44:00 I don't know what it is elsewhere, but here in old Kolkata, management is the new wave of hysterics, with engineering and the medical profession remaining the perennial favorites. Many kids I know, after coursing through literary studies in their postgraduation, have dug up bank loans, or personal loans from their insecure parents, in order to earn the magic wads which are said to make life happen Read more:Business
, Management
Sleepy and Marginal 2008-06-12 17:56:00 It's 6.30 in the morning, and this means I haven't slept for the whole night. What was I doing? Dear, dear, I was trying to write a 300-word piece for a newsletter, after I stopped writing it at 2 o'clock. Weeding is a difficult task, believe me. Weeding words is comparatively easy, but difficult nevertheless. Then, I wandered off, reading other people's blogs.Just when I thought I was at the end Read more:Marginal
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Dr Binayak Sen, My Brother, Our Hero 2008-09-17 23:50:00 For those who've come in late, on 14 May 2007, Dr. Binayak Sen was arrested from Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh state, India. A year and almost a half later, Dr. Sen remains in prison. After people have protested throughout India. After really-important people such as Noam Chomsky, Amartya Sen, Arundhati Roy, Shyam Benegal and many eminent medical professors and scientists in India and abroad have protest Read more:Brother
A Diachronic View 2008-09-17 23:50:00 "Philosophy, in its very diachrony, is the consciousness of the breakup of consciousness."
How to fly a kite and claim empires of the sky 2008-09-17 07:03:00 Under a gloomy sky, after a night and a day of sudden spells of rain, it's evening. From my window, I see a kid loitering around on a nearby terrace, a kite in his hand. He stands close to the edge and staring out at the huge expanse of the sky, uncertain of the rain that might arrive of the clouds and spoil his conquest of the sky. He sees birds flying out towards the west, he wonders why there a Read more:claim
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Something really bad lurking in Google Chrome 2008-09-11 22:49:00 Gentle reader, I would like you to think about a sinister attempt of proprietary inclusion by Google
who've launched their latest web-browser application called Google Chrome
. There are some serious security flaws (which will be fixed, I guess) but something really bad is also lurking.Each time you use the Gmail through Chrome, you lose all rights to your mail and all its contents under the Terms
What is it you can call your own? 2008-09-07 14:47:00 The damp spreads all around. And it feels cold at nights.It rains intermittently, and the sky clouds suddenly and rains a few, brief showers. As you pedal down the city streets, you feel the soft heat melting down your shoulders while the logic of industrial domestication rules supreme around you, in banners, streamers, and screamers.The sun has changed and it's now soft and warm. Summer and the r
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