Sayamindu’s Ramblings

Towards the begin­ning of Novem­ber last year, I got an email from J. Nathan Matias, ask­ing if I would be inter­ested in help­ing orga­nize an event at the Media Lab dur­ing Jan­u­ary. In his email, he described the event as an oppor­tu­nity for peo­ple to teach each other things that they feel pas­sion­ate about, cov­er­ing top­ics both […]

Today, I vis­ited the neigh­bor­hood of Kolkata in which I grew up — a lot has changed, but the some of the fun­da­men­tal char­ac­ter­is­tics remain the same. I ran across fam­ily mem­bers of a few old friends, many of whom have moved out of India (a sub­ject for a sep­a­rate blog post). It also turned out that my visit coin­cided with the “Baul-Fakir […]