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anisha shekhar mukherji: Poetry, Prose and Paintings by Treya
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History, Humour, Design, Conservation, Astronomy. Poetry, Prose and Paintings by Treya. The Annals of Arindam Ganguli. Poetry, Prose and Paintings by Treya. The Three Little Pigs. The Perils of Philosophy in Science. Treya (sprawled on the carpet, studying for a Science Test): Mama, ask me some questions from the second chapter - I've read the chapter and the classwork in the notebook. Anisha: OK. What is the difference between matter and non-matter? Give examples of both. On Way to the Park. T: "What do...
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anisha shekhar mukherji: National and Regional Identity in Design: Part I
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History, Humour, Design, Conservation, Astronomy. Poetry, Prose and Paintings by Treya. The Annals of Arindam Ganguli. Monday, June 10, 2013. National and Regional Identity in Design: Part I. Part I- The Question of a Culture of Design. I had heard stories from Snehanshu of his spirited paternal grandmother. She came to Birnagar near Kolkata, from Kanpur in the early decades of the 20. My Grandmother-in-law's Wedding Benarasi Sari. Purple silk worked in zari. Probable date of manufacture: 1910 CE). Centu...
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anisha shekhar mukherji: November 2012
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History, Humour, Design, Conservation, Astronomy. Poetry, Prose and Paintings by Treya. The Annals of Arindam Ganguli. Friday, November 23, 2012. Even when you leave SPA (finally! After five years (hopefully), and bound forward, relieved or regretful at successfully negotiating the endless ‘crits’ that had occupied your mental and physical horizon, you can’t really shake it out of your system. Neither can you escape bumping into an SPAite every now and then. Considering the fairly small numbers that made...
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anisha shekhar mukherji: Doon Tales
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History, Humour, Design, Conservation, Astronomy. Poetry, Prose and Paintings by Treya. The Annals of Arindam Ganguli. Plain Tales from Doon. In which there are some Exchanges. Between Garhwalis and Kumaonis. No one can deny that Onial Mausaji tells a tale well. And that he can do so on almost any subject on earth and at the slightest provocation. As one of the few resident males in a family full of females, he feels particularly strongly about the Ghildiyal women. Mausi smiles at most of Mausaji’s...
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anisha shekhar mukherji: Three Little Pigs
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History, Humour, Design, Conservation, Astronomy. Poetry, Prose and Paintings by Treya. The Annals of Arindam Ganguli. Monday, April 30, 2012. The Three Little Pigs and the Idea of a ‘Pucca’ House. A local school run by a charitable trust, told me that the child was overage for Class 1, and could not follow the level of teaching in Class 2. So she suggested that I teach Dulali at home, and if she was able to clear the First Term exams, they would give her admission. As ‘ katcha’. And ‘ pucca’. So much so...
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anisha shekhar mukherji: The SPA Effect
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History, Humour, Design, Conservation, Astronomy. Poetry, Prose and Paintings by Treya. The Annals of Arindam Ganguli. Friday, November 23, 2012. Even when you leave SPA (finally! After five years (hopefully), and bound forward, relieved or regretful at successfully negotiating the endless ‘crits’ that had occupied your mental and physical horizon, you can’t really shake it out of your system. Neither can you escape bumping into an SPAite every now and then. Considering the fairly small numbers that made...
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anisha shekhar mukherji: Poems
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History, Humour, Design, Conservation, Astronomy. Poetry, Prose and Paintings by Treya. The Annals of Arindam Ganguli. The Song of the Moderns. Oh, to be modern,. Now that everyone’s been there. And shove away the odd-and. Old ways, a-la Le Corbusier. To bow at the altar. Of Hoffman, Josef and Gropius, Walter. And tread in the glimmering footprints,. Of the Kandiniskys and the Klimts. To build our own Falling-waters. Regurgitate the modern masters. And be honest, frank and forthright,. One summer day,.
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anisha shekhar mukherji: A Tenida tale
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History, Humour, Design, Conservation, Astronomy. Poetry, Prose and Paintings by Treya. The Annals of Arindam Ganguli. Monday, March 16, 2015. Dadhichi, Insects and Vishvakarma. Translation of a Bengali story by. Till now, I have been sitting rapt—meditating with all my mind in a deep forest. Just that, a whole lot of insects have been streaming across my nose and mouth, and I can’t describe how awful that is! 8212;I have to stay absolutely still. Would become as dour as Durvasa [3]. Sure enough, I was i...
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anisha shekhar mukherji: June 2013
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History, Humour, Design, Conservation, Astronomy. Poetry, Prose and Paintings by Treya. The Annals of Arindam Ganguli. Friday, June 21, 2013. National and Regional Identity in Design:- Part IV. Part IV – At Home in The World. Translated as At Home and Outside/ The Home and The World). I found it interesting how a colonial form of building had enmeshed itself so deeply in the landed families of Bengal, that it forms the definitive. Image to portray a certain time and ethos of this region. My husband still...
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anisha shekhar mukherji: Humour
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History, Humour, Design, Conservation, Astronomy. Poetry, Prose and Paintings by Treya. The Annals of Arindam Ganguli. Treya Doctor Series (starring Treya as ‘Doctor’ and Anisha as ‘Patient’). Doctor: Good morning. What’s the matter? Patient: I am feeling very tired, Doctor. Let me see, since when have you had fever? Patient: No, Doctor, I don’t have fever, I am feeling very tired. Doctor: Oh, that doesn’t mean anything. Patient: But it does. Doctor: Oh, what did you eat in the morning? What a funny name!
