Atanu Dey On India's Development

March 31, 2008
by Atanu Dey
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We’re back

And just in time for April Fool’s Day. I wonder what the newspapers around the world will unleash on the unsuspecting on April 1st. The greatest April fool’s joke is undoubtedly the Swiss spaghetti harvest of 1957. The BBC explained … Continue reading

March 17, 2008
by Atanu Dey
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Babbage and Tennyson

Charles Babbage (1791–1871), the English mathematician was the father of the idea of a programmable computer. Babbage built a mechanical computer called “the difference engine.” He once corresponded with Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Sir, In your otherwise beautiful poem “The Vision … Continue reading

March 6, 2008
by Atanu Dey
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Suicide! Suicide!

Pardon me if I sound a bit like that woman from the French resistance in the side-splittingly funny British comedy series “‘alo, ‘alo” when she enters through the windows at the back of the tavern and says, “Listen to me … Continue reading