tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726700.post4699591614513576112..comments2024-01-07T15:52:27.755+06:00Comments on Razib's World: 2010 was not a Bad YearRazib Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15756969937778322465noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726700.post-6509437302582250302011-01-01T16:31:00.078+06:002011-01-01T16:31:00.078+06:00Dear Razib,
I'm a brand new subscriber to your...Dear Razib,<br />I'm a brand new subscriber to your blog. My attention was drawn when I was trying to Google materials for one of my hobbies - Persian influence on Bengali language and literature. <br />At this juncture, considering the date, I should wish you and all your blog-followers the customary greetings of new year. There is, perhaps, a Chinese saying that reminds us that the same gentle breeze does not shake the same branch of a cherry tree twice. There is a Bengali poem (by Subhash Mukhopadhyay) that aptly translates it as "cherir ek-i dal ek-i haway dubar dolena." 2011, in its entirety or in each infinitesimal time segments of it, will certainly carry different breezes, gentle or not, no matter how hard we wish.<br />I'm truly sorry to hear that you were not well for the better part of 2010 (and wish you, despite the previous sentence, the best of health), which the blog had helped you to tide over. We are, perhaps, in similar boats, though insomnia is not my symptom. I've lead a full life -- as ajijnasu student with catholic tastes, as an R&D scientist attached to a corporate house, as a corporate person much against my wishes, in pursuit of my political tenets and value systems which never stood me in good stead, in retirement from active service, and in my new role as a part time consultant to more-than-one-master in the after-life -- but had been nursing a defective heart damaged unbeknownst by excessive smoking in my salad days. <br />I too find solace in net surfing, blog jumping and chasing impossible research projects (not for publication nor for glory) that are often unfinished. It helps me a great deal in my efforts to forget what a failure my life has been, how I had missed my true calling at least twice in my life, and how death might softly catch up with me without letting me whimper (I hope). I say all these without rancor, without an iota of sadness and for no reason at all except to strike empathy. <br />This is not turning out to be a cheerful post for a new year blog. <br />On the brighter side, I have suddenly discovered that my life long pursuit of reading anything and everything in at least two languages, and my painstaking personal research into the growth and development of the Bengali language, have put me in a position to help young people in quest of knowledge.<br />I joined your blog to share what is mine with whatever is there on offer.<br />Aniruddha Sen.অনিরুদ্ধ ফাল্গুনি সেনhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13745441926912543142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726700.post-45056026577129605422011-01-01T02:42:48.042+06:002011-01-01T02:42:48.042+06:00Hoping you and your wife gain excellent health in ...Hoping you and your wife gain excellent health in 2011. Happy New Year!Diane Dooleyhttp://dianedooley.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22726700.post-63764469547566408102010-12-31T22:49:47.908+06:002010-12-31T22:49:47.908+06:00happy new year razib!happy new year razib!kittyhttp://www.mycfs.menoreply@blogger.com