Essays in Idleness is a collection of
Essays written on a variety of subjects without any apparent connections. They
were written during the period of 1997-2003 at different places. The Durga Trilogy was written during my stay at
Rest are collections of
variation and is quite like the sack of a beggar which has traveled doors of
many a disciplines and thoughts and even though there may be questions about
the richness of the whole content but there is a variety of donation and in a
way records some of the thoughts that soothed and troubled me during those
period, not necessarily in any pre-determined order.
Following Essays of Idleness, features two works by mindsmith,
the latter work one co-authored with Dipanjan.
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Essays in Idleness
Absent from Home - a Photo-Essay by wordsmith
Communication-Cosmic, Human, Personal- a tour by wordsmith
The Telecom Quartet - This Quartet is inspired by exposure to a Communication Management
Course undertaken by me as a Chevening Scholar in
Folio I: Death of a Telecom
Engineer
Folio II: Engineering Culture or Culture Engineer
Folio III: Magnifera Indica - History Surrounds us
Folio IV: Hello, Hello, Good
Morning, Future!
Durga Puja - Myths and Metaphysics
Durga-The Fractal Icon-BOOK-II
Pilgrim's Progress - A pilgrimage to Puri
The European
Travellers - a Travel Concoction of Ideas and Thoughts
Good-Bye England ! - A valediction to British Civilization by wordsmith
The Prose of an Unknown Mariner
- a voyage diary by wordsmith
Ocean to Mountain - a car
drive of 4500 kilometer from Kanyakumari
to Silchar on a Maruti-800
City as Novel - Calcutta - an essay by wordsmith
Calcutta Winter -
stat rosa pristina nomina
In Praise of Calcutta and Bengali women: an anniversary recollection
A one-page Calcutta guide, written for
dummies
[ The above four
individual pieces feature in the Contributory History Writing Project of Bengal
entitled An Intimate History of Bengal [Project AIHB ] and the Project releases
so far can be viewed here at Project An Intimate
History of Bengal
In Praise of Linux - a survey by wordsmith
Excerpts and tracework of a lecture of Sir
Roger Penrose at Calcutta on Consciousness and Laws of Physics [The same lecture has been transcribed by
wordsmith at the request of British Council,
Contemplations on
Mathematical Complexity and Fate of Civilisations - first episode
Digital Age,
Biotechnological Future and God
Dialogue on Languages and
Contemporary Concern
THE MINDSMITHIAN SPACE
We have recently christened Mr.Shomik
Mukherjee as mindsmith and
his works will decorate the Hall of Mirrors of the wordsmithian space. Mind and
words are quintessence of mirror-like dust which sparkles and reflects
alternative realities or that what it is not. This essaywork,
entitled What is a
Mindsmith is his first contribution to us. The underlying empty space is
for him to decorate as time goes by. Over to mindsmith.
He can be contacted at mindsmith
Which is earlier - Chicken or Egg ?
- In this Essay, Mindsmith takes a very old but contemporary significant
question. Read On.
A Sweet-Guide of Calcutta
- written by Dipanjan and Mindsmith and they are the best equipped
to write it.