Here are some blog posts that are of a personal nature. Browse and find topics that interest you. Despite the title, its not necessary that the matters considered here are all serious.
Dr. Sneh Raj – Sneh Mausi – Bua – Daadi – is no more.
My Mausi, Dr. Sneh Raj is no more. She died at age 91. She went on her own terms. She said she did not wish any tubes or artificial means of respiration (and such) and her family respected her wishes. All her life she has battled the circumstances she found…
Bhai Aditya Bir Singh — A Remembrance
June 2, 2021 Recently my wife and I were talking about what lunch we took to school. For the life of me, I can’t remember what I took, or whether I took anything at all. But I can describe in great detail the marmalade sandwiches Isaac brought for his lunch,…
Lest we forget them (Edited) – By P. K. Ghosh
An email Asoke and I sent with a link to P K Ghosh’s article “Lest we forget them”. I have previously written a book review of PKG’s novel: On returning to desh. IITs of India are known worldwide as excellent academic institutions. For several decades, IIT Kanpur was the leader…
Mummy's 90th birthday
My mother, Dr. Hem Bhatnagar, completed 90 years on October 28, 2019. We asked her family and friends if they wished to say something in tribute or regarding their association with her. Madhulika and I have collated them as a book, which was presented to mummy on her birthday. It…
Thank you, Dick
From R to L (facing camera): Ae Ja Yee, Bruce Berndt, Dick Askey, Shaun Cooper, Michael Schlosser, and me At Alladi 60 conference at a conference reception at the Alladi residence Howard Cohl and Mourad Ismail created a Liber Amicorum (Friendship Book) to present to Richard Askey. Askey is not well,…
Mathematics and Life: A Speech
On August 27, 2018, I was invited by the Millennium School, Noida to their investiture ceremony. I have previously taught mathematics to Class 11 students in another campus of the school. At that time, I instituted a “Mathguru Prize” for one or two students who did well in mathematics in…
Interview in Annulus – Hindu College math department magazine
This is an email interview with Annulus, a magazine taken out by Acuity, the mathematics society run by mathematics students of Hindu College, Delhi University. Most of it was published in the magazine. I thought it was meant as a tribute to Saroj Bala Malik, who taught me 4 classes…
Identities and Mathematical Intuition: Talk in DPS – Dwarka to DPS Math Teachers
On April 18th, I gave a talk on Identities to Delhi Public School (DPS) Math teachers attending a training conference/workshop. The teachers were from DPSs all over the country and teach in senior school (XIth-XIIth). The overall idea of the talk was to organize information about identities according to the…
My Mathematical Forefathers
From time to time, I look at the Mathematics Genealogy Project, and search for my own mathematical tree. I was happy to note that I am a direct descendant of Gauss and of Leibnitz. What I noticed today, was that I am a mathematical cousin of Saroj Malik, my teacher in…
Douglas R Hofstadter
Sides-reversed-is Ambigram by punyamishra Douglas R Hofstadter sides reversed is Retdatsfoh R Salgoud sides reversed is Douglas R Hofstadter … is one Strange Loop. Hofstadter wrote Godel, Escher and Bach: An eternal golden braid. A personal review follows. Four young boys growing up the Modern way: Gaurav and Hartosh, Punya…
Book Review by Tejasi Bhatnagar
BOOK REVIEW: GET SMART! MATHS CONCEPTSDAILY BARD RATING: 4.5 STARS Maths Concepts is a book written by Dr. Gaurav Bhatnagar for classes 6th to 8th. The interesting part of this book is that it has jokes and conversations related to maths. A child who gets 60% in maths may get…
On Returning To Desh
Book Review: A Long Day’s Night, by Pradip Ghosh, Srishti Publishers and Distributors (2002) Rs. 295/- Reissued by Rupa (2009). Available on Amazon. As a grad student, whenever I was with a few of my friends, three pegs down, discussing this and that—work, courses, the Buddha (I mean, of course, the…
From the Diary of a Netizen
My day began at my daddy’s tea stall at 6 am and the big guard gave me fifty paisa as a tip. I bought a chocolate toffee from the corner shop on the other side of the orange office building. *** The children from the school near my house laughed…
How To Have Smarter Parents
by Tejasi Bhatnagar In your neighborhood bookstore, or at a nearby web-site, you will find many books concerning parenting: A New Life, Bringing Baby Home, Baby’s First Year, and so on. However, there are no documents at all about How to Train New Parents, Calming Mommy and Daddy when they…
Gaurav Bhatnagar 