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Letters

Letter from a Mathematician, Concerning Fractal Forms in Indian Art

Chrestomather Apr 29, 2014 0 Comments

  April 23 Hello Amitav: It was a pleasure meeting you and listening to your talk.  I particularly enjoyed our brief conversation about Fractals at the end of the talk,…

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Letter from University of Houston Students

Chrestomather Apr 25, 2014 1 Comments

  On April 10 I met with a 'World Cultures and Literature 2351' class at the University of Houston. Last week Prof Anne Reitz, who teaches the course, forwarded me…

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Correspondence with an Indian-American Student

Chrestomather Apr 16, 2014 0 Comments

      4th April, 2014   Dear Mr. Amitav Ghosh, My name is Saloni Gupta and I was at a discussion held at the Asian American Cultural Center .…

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Correspondence with Padma Viswanathan, author of THE EVER AFTER OF ASHWIN RAO

Chrestomather Apr 13, 2014 0 Comments

  Padma Viswanathan's novel The Ever After of Ashwin Rao has just been published by Random House Canada.     The jacket copy describes the book as: '... a stunning…

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Laurel Braitman’s ANIMAL MADNESS – a review

Chrestomather Apr 8, 2014 0 Comments

      Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves Laurel Braitman Simon & Schuster             Rare…

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More on the Siege of Kut al-Amara

Chrestomather Apr 5, 2014 0 Comments

    I recently posted an exchange of letters between myself and Chris Howell, who wrote to me after reading my posts on the Mesopotamia campaign of 1915-16 in the…

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Correspondence on the siege of Kut al-Amara, 1916

Chrestomather Apr 1, 2014 0 Comments

    March 17, 2014 Dear Mr Ghosh, Earlier today I came across your ‘On to Baghdad’ page on the net.   Ten years ago I wrote and published a…

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