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Charaiveti: An Academic's Journey-1

My young days in Santiniketan were immersed in Tagore's music, poetry and drama

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In periods when our house was particularly over-crowded with relatives, my father often sent me and my sister and mother off to Santiniketan | Photo: Ritwik Sharma

Pranab Bardhan
On long plane journeys I do not sleep well. But some years back in one such journey I was tired and fell fast asleep. When I woke up, I saw a little note on my lap. It was from the captain in charge of the plane. It said, “I did not want to disturb you, but from our computer log I could see that your total travel so far with our airlines group just crossed 3 million miles. So congratulations! It seems you travel almost as much as I do.” I made a quick calculation, 3 million miles is like
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