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It has been a truly hectic 3-months. About 100 posts, one a day on the average.
Time to punch the "Pause / Stop" Button.
I thought I should pick up about 20 favorite posts of mine and bring out a thin booklet titled: "Granpa's Tall Tales" mostly for my non-physics, non-web-savvy folks.
And I thought I should take this opportunity to try and mention all those who kindly kept in touch with me and my blog pieces post-retirement.
So, here is the proposed Preface titled: "Kind Words & Coronets" followed by "Contents".
Your suggestions are most welcome!
Most of the Doctorates recognized (or awarded) by me in what follows are in the field of "Literature Appreciation": "Ph. D. (LA)"
gps
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Kind Words & Coronets
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A story-teller may be blind and dumb, but not deaf…….to praise.
By and large a few kind words cost little but spread a lot of goodwill.
Plucking a few apt words from here and there and stitching them into a daisy chain is as harmless a pastime as any for me.
For their kind words and much else besides, I am indebted, in a rough inflexible birth-right-order to:
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Sri and Srimathi Bhattaram Radhakrishniah
Srimathi Y Lalithamba
Sri G Ranga Rao, IAS
Srimathi Y Alagamma
Dr Vimala Ranga Rao, MD
Dr G Bhanumurthy
Dr N P Rao
Dr G M K Sharma
Dr Uma Koteswara Rao
Dr & Mrs L V K Moorthy
Dr Dharam Vir IAS
Dr N Annapurna
Dr G Prasad Rao MD
Dr G Gopal Rao MD, OBE
Dr Shyamal Chakrabarti
Sri & Srimathi M Pattabhirama Rao
Dr V Srinivas
Dr S K Ray
Dr Krishna Kumar
Dr P K Raina
Dr J S Pandey
Dr Somnath Bharadawaj
Dr Sayan Kar
Dr S Pratik Khastgir
Dr Anushree Roy
Sri G Vidyapathi
Dr Kapeeleshwar Krishana
Dr Rupak Mahapatra
Dr Vinit Kumar
Dr Sougato Bose
Dr Anupam Mazumdar
Dr Tania Chakraborty
Dr K V Shajesh
Dr Subrata Bal
Dr Supratim Sengupta
Dr Indrajit Mitra
Dr Arundhuti Ganguly
Dr Anirban Bhattacharya
Drs Kingshuk & Dora Bose
Dr Soumendu Chakrabarti
Dr D Srikripa
Dr & Mrs Dr Mainak Sengupta
Dr Kedar Khare
Dr Aparup Banerjee
Dr Saswat Sarangi
Dr Anand Jha
Dr Parag Ghosh
Dr Jogia Bandyopadhyay
Dr Shamik Gupta
Dr Varun N Achar
Dr Wrick Sengupta
Dr Dharmesh Jain
Dr Sidharth Santra
Dr Mainak Jas
Dr Wanderlust
And Anonymous others
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These tales were told mostly for the reading pleasure of that virtuoso Aniket Basu.
No words can thank the sunshine brought to my life by Rukmini, Sonoo, Sailaja, and now Ishani.
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Contents
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1. http://gpsastry.bluffmaster.com/
2. Money Matters
3. Currency Goddess
4. Tooth & Brush
5. Chacha Nehru’s Young India
6. Socialistic Pattern of Society
7. Black Market
8. Renunciation Woes
9. Torn Fences…
10. And Broken Walls
11. Live Habit
12. Nellore-Kovur Marathon
13. Books & Stagnant Brooks
14. Gifter-Giftee Perplex
15. Spin
16. Moonshine
17. POP Culture
18. Bernard Levin's Theorem
19. Testy Driving
20. Get-Up Please!
21. Bharavi's Atonement
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3 comments:
PoLtS has left a new comment on your post "My Swan Song / Duck Quack":
Dear Prof Sastry:
How about throwing in a couple more?
Thermodynamics & Marital Bliss
The one defending laziness
:-)
Posted by PoLtS to gpsastry at July 22, 2010 1:49 AM
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gps:
Some goof-up there! This Post has NOT been deleted by the author.
Thanx for the comment.
'In Praise of Laziness' has already been included in the earlier Compilation titled: 'Woolgathering'.
'Thermodynamics and Marital Bliss' has been framed and kept in his bedroom by a String Theorist turned Banker (not that Indra!), if I remember correctly. Inclusion of such bedroom material (like my earlier blogpost:'Physics of Sex')has already been dubbed 'indecent' by an earlier reader dedicated to Tagore, soul and body. I wouldn't have been here but for 'Thermodynamics' (Reciprocating Engines, referred to by Thurber in one of his pieces titled: 'Sex Ex Machina') or for that matter, 'Marital Bliss'; I don't know about others...gps
Dear Sir,
If you could just convert yourself into a degree granting Institution (officially) using but a little of your immense clout- I could claim the fulfillment of a life long ambition of becoming a Ph.D .....
then I could retire from everything else and become a woolgatherer.
Congratulations to each other among a few of those you decorated with the 'Dr.' have been exchanged all right but still without a diploma in Hand....it's cumbersome to refer everybody to a website to prove my claim.
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