Writing

In the quiet embrace of my leisure moments, I delight in weaving words about myriad wonders, from the enchanting realms of mathematics and beyond. Here, my musings find sanctuary.

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This article is a result of a series of conversations in February, 2020 with Satvik Saha and Soham Gupta, two of my dear friends and classmates in college. This is essentially a discussion about generalising the idea of Fibonacci numbers. Though almost all of them turned out at the end of the day to be rediscoveries, I hope, it would be interesting for the reader to look at the differing styles and approaches that we took. The article can also be found in Satvik's Website.

I wrote this piece about three years ago, and it has garnered some criticism since then. However, a few of my juniors have expressed benefiting from its content. So, I have chosen to keep it posted here. Link to the original page.

Cinema Against War“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the war room.” What is a war? Is it an extremely lengthy melodrama like the never ending long shots of “1917”? Or is it a Kafkaesque confusion that keeps on changing aspects like the regularly changing aspect ratios of “Dunkirk”? Or can it be just heartless monotonous…

Akaler Sandhane (1980) : A Famine within A FamineAs second wave of the virus hits us to continue this pandemic which now feels no short of a famine, and as Mrinal Sen’s 98th birthday just passed us by, what can be a better time to re-watch his Akaler Sandhane (1980) In Search Of Famine and get lost in his world of minute observations……

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Image description : Wassily Kandinsky, Composition 8, 1923, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA.