(This is the story behind the reference to tea in this earlier chapter of the memoirs.) The phone rang as I started shutting the front door behind me. In one of those momentous…Continue reading→
Stories from my life
The 1960s
The Chemistry of Love
Science fairs for high schoolers were an annual affair. A large area with a perimeter of school stalls showing off hand-made experiments with charts on the walls, manned by eager young scientists,…Continue reading→
The Date of the Jackal
Ashok found Meena fascinating. She, Meena, liked Jethro Tull. Ashok’s tastes were more Donna Summer’s gasping, moaning, sex-drenched disco. But Meena was friendly, liked Ashok’s company and a movie or two together…Continue reading→
Bengali COBOL
In the early summer of the following year (following the on-time, on-budget arrival of Baby #1, (chronicled in this post) financial conditions hadn’t really improved. A meager income was being gleaned by…Continue reading→
The First School Reunion
Schools, good ones, were hard to come by in Calcutta. Boys had a choice of St. Xavier’s, La Martiniere for Boys, the recently rejuvenated and rising fast in the ranking St. James…Continue reading→
Baby steps in
Things went back to normal after An Inauspicious Start. Of course, normal was the new normal which wasn’t quite the same normal as the previous normal. Progressing pregnancy dulled the pain of…Continue reading→
An Inauspicious Start
Shortly after the “Hello World” episode, the startup shutdown. Cast into the wilderness, not yet 27 years of age, boasting a pregnant wife and mounting debt caused by 3 months of no…Continue reading→
Hello World! Chopped!
Read Part 1 Read Part 2 “Well, I’ll be damned!”, I said. “This looks just like a GW-Basic Interpreter. Where the hell did you find this?” “Well…”, he started. “Never mind, everyone…Continue reading→
Hello World! The Edge of Darkness!
Read Part 1 No, you’re wrong. It wasn’t my COBOL code, or my system design skills. The floppies were not corrupted, I could see the data outside my code with tools I…Continue reading→
Hello World!
In the spring of 1987, I was lured away from my employer, a fast-growing, much respected Indian IT company by a startup. They offered double the salary, nice. A department to run,…Continue reading→
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