General writings by Amit Mukerjee

General writings

Articles in EYES Magazine

The magazine EYES appeared in IIT in the mid-1990's. Typically four issues are brought out each year, two each semester. Murakh-ji is this well-meaning but some what dimwitted person who somehow has very deep observations on Campus Life.

Wisdom strewn about on Kanpur Roads
Murakh-ji discovers the sonometer
Murakh-ji meets a bicycle businessman
Murakh-ji's survey on how to remove bees from campus
Murakh-ji talks to the Security-Wallah

Also see the Writing from IIT Kanpur for some other articles.

Older Articles

These articles were written occasionally over the last ten years or so, with different audiences in mind...

Late night diary of an expatriate student
Spinach and shAk: a tale of cultural disorientation
Zakir Hussain: reflections on a concert
A Budhaditya Concert
The (wet) dreams of Rana - a Narendrapur story
A ride in the engine
S.H.I.T.: Special Higher Initiative in Technology
The Zachry Bomb threat (Texas A&M)

Reviews

Arun Shourie: Translation bias?
Satanic Verses: a tale of discontent
On "Memed, My Hawk" by Yeshar Kemal

Poems

Conversations with Nebuchadnezar
Drinking mud
Tomorrow's Song
Beauty Plagiarized
Lament on leaving Soc.Culture.India
My song: Take me back now *
Banalata Sen *
Tagore without translation: A look at prem and puja *
Agaman: The arrival of the King *
El Sol del Primer Dia: in Spanish *

* = translations from, or inspired by. poems in the Bengali language.

Amitabha Mukerjee (amit@iitk.ernet.in)