Tuesday, July 20, 2010

My Swan Song / Duck Quack

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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:

  1. 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

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  2. 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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