Journey of the Journeyman

 Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;Where knowledge is free;Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;Where words come out from the depth of truth;Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert […]

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Today I complete 8 years at GE.
I had joined GE Healthcare straight out of school after my post-graduation.  Started to work on an image management platform writing CORBA code, with Henning/Vinoski as my pillow for the all-nighters. Moved over to Milwaukee on the Edison program, wrote a bunch of code starting from management dashboards implementing 3D […]

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9:33 am Saturday. Listening to my past.
Actually I have never seen this movie but I grew up on the songs. Bappi da at his lethal best
The forgotten voices of Bappi Lahiri, Usha Uthup, Vijay Benedict and so much nostalgia of dancing in front of the mirror. The recording is at 18kbps, adds a […]

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Today was a sad day.
Some of the things I knew true for long came undone.
This is a book my Chotomama (maternal uncle) wrote. Its titled “Amaar Desh, Amaar Bidesh”. Simple-sounding, but craftily worded. (Very)Roughly it translates to “My Country, Foreign unto me” [one possible translation].
It is a personal recollection of his roots, as a kid, […]

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I was cleaning out my room when an old, slender, leather-bound diary made its appearance.  Way back from 1997. Flickering through the pages, I found a lot of names and phone numbers from the past, people I once knew, who once knew me. A bunch of todo lists, mostly related to winning votes in the […]

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