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Losing friends

My childhood friend Prakash from Nagpur, India, called and told me that in the last month two of my school and college friends, Ashok Yadav and Indrakumar Khakhar suddently died.  Ashok got rectal cancer and Indu had a heart attack. …

Back home

I have never been out so long from US — left on July 27th and came back on Sept 14th.  I entered US first time on Janyary 13th 1978 and have never been away for more than a month or…

Perth is a nice place

I have been in Perth, Western Australia, for the last 3 + days.  Visiting here my long time friend Sveth Venkatesh and meeting her research grop to discuss interesting research ideas.  Equally important and in some respect more fun has…