Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1
PrologueRemembrance of things past. Or not.I write a lot and I read a lot. In my writing, I have learnt that blogging is easy and blogging is hard. Blogging is easy because it is simply putting...
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READERS: The hospital's bills have already been paid, but we would like (and appreciate) our expenses to be recouped. If you would like to help us do that then you can merely click on the ads that...
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READERS: The hospital's bills have already been paid, but we would like (and appreciate) our expenses to be recouped. If you would like to help us do that then you can merely click on the ads that...
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View ArticlePersons of the Year (2015)
This is my third PotY post. For 2013, I published the post at the end January 2014. This seemed to be an appropriate time as it provided a good retrospective for the entire year. For 2014, I published...
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On the 45th Anniversary of the War on Civilians
Hello I must be going. I cannot stay. I came to say, I must be going. I'm glad I came, but just the same, I must be going.Well, not quite, but it must seem like that. As a blogger, I follow many other...
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Portable Trades and Offshore Opportunities: Chapters 12-35
To buy this book, Portable Trades and Offshore Opportunities, read this and the previous review and read the bottom of this post. I appreciated reading about pen pals and newsletters in chapter 13...
View ArticleHotel Hill Palace
It is good to have low expectations.I do not know why we encounter unceasingly bad or rude behaviour or service at hotels, and I still do not know why very many hotels do not allow foreigners. I have...
View ArticleThe Ten Finalists of America's Got Talent (2015)
As I considered doing in last year's AGT post, I am now moving the singers to my Favourite English Songs post (even though the songs may not necessarily be in English) and will most likely do this for...
View ArticleHumour(?) in India(?)
I think that at least two things coalesced to bring about this post, although perhaps subconsciously. The first is that of my intention to watch and then review films of Charlie Chaplin and Norman...
View ArticleFavourite Videos, Revisited
The original post was a strange amalgamation of videos from 1) My Orkut profile which were based primarily on my teachers; 2) Some politically and philosophically important videos; and 3) Some personal...
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Inquilab Kolkata
Inquilab zindabad! is a phrase or slogan that was first used by Bhagat Singh in 1929 and which can be translated as Long live the revolution with inquilab being the Urdu word for revolution.Inquilab...
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R.I.P. Gopal's Planet
Friends, Indians, countrymen, lend me your ears: I have come to praise Gopal, not to bury him. The good that men do lives with them; the evil is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Gopal....
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My Mother, My Self
There are a few themes that I have presented at least a few times each in this blog.I have written about my teachers. About seven years ago (when I was still in the United States), I wrote an epistle...
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Indian Foods and Drinks
I have an Indian Products post in which I discuss the things in India that could not be discussed elsewhere or by themselves. For example, I discussed ear buds in it, and certainly could not devote an...
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My AngloInfo Interview(?)
As I have written, I am very proud of what I have done and accomplished with my blog.My first interview, and my first exposure to a much larger audience: My Expat-Blog InterviewMy ability to offer you...
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Enclave Guest House
During the time that we were there, the Enclave Guest House (on McLeod St.; the owner owns another one on Sarat Bose Road in Kolkata), there were thousands of guests; they were termites, bed bugs and...
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The Eve of Destruction
I cannot imagine what the people of Nepal and Bihar are going through. I can only sympathize--not empathize--with what they are experiencing. Throughout my life, I have been quite immune to...
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I Won(?) an Award(?)!
I have been blogging for a little bit over 3.5 years. About two years ago, I became aware of something called the Liebster Award. It appeared to be a kind of "Tag! You're it!" type of award given to...
View ArticleEconomics in One Lesson
As stated in my previous post, I was inspired to read (actually re-read) The Social Contract, review it, and then post my findings at the Freedomain Radio community at Google+. When I decided to do...
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