Thursday, April 15, 2010
On the road in Kolkata
So here I am in hot, sunny and humid Kolkata, visiting the Saha Institute where I give a talk tomorrow. Got here early in the morning yesterday and met some friends. We learnt that there was to be a talk on Operation Green Hunt and UAPA and some other issues by Goutam Navlakha and Arundhati Roy in the University and we went off there. There were about a thousand people there. Impressive to see how much interest there is in the general population on these subjects. Off to Shillong and Guwahati later this week. I am reading `Roadrunner' by Dilip D'Souza while on the road. Strongly recommend. He talks about Kartik Kalyanram whose blog is here. His mami Sundari Mahadevan was my father's late brother's wife. Small world indeed.
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"Arundhati Roy in the University and we went off there. ...Impressive to see ho much interest there is in the general population on these subjects..."
Why not? Since Ms. Roy is a self-proclaimed expert on ALL subjects (past, present and future), the surprise is that MORE people (like a billion or so) didn't turn up. For instance, people seeking advice on their individual legal and medical problems,
farmers seeking loans, military strategists looking for strategies, students looking for solutions to their exam problems, senior citizens worrying about their pensions, scientists looking for answers to their questions, string theorists looking for questions to their answers, and so on and on. Ms. Roy has definitive answers to all possible questions, so how come only a thousand people turned up? Maybe IPL was on at the same time?
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