Book review of “Code Name Madeline – A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris”. It is the story of a Sufi mystic’s daughter who grew up in France but joined a top-secret British unit and played a pivotal role in the D-Day victory.
Author Archives: Shekhar Dasgupta
Circles, Covid, Crypto, Cyber.…. The Greek Connection!
A short primer on Cryptocurrencies – how and why Bitcoin emerged with blockchain, abuse of Crypto exchanges for ransom payments and why Greece became an early adopter of Cryptocurrency
Did You Just Get a Sticker Shock?
Origin and Short History of the Word ‘Inflation’
Ajeeb Dastan Hai Yeh
Book Review of The Deoliwallahs: The True Story of the 1962 Chinese-Indian Internment
Wireless Power Transmission: Solving the Last Mile Conundrum
Wireless Power Transmission from renewable energy farms has potential for transformative impact in India’s rural electrification, economic development and military security.
A Polymath
“I know about him. He was a polymath.” That is how a lady in the US described the Poet, Asia’s first Nobel Laureate, on a Zoom call when I mentioned about a recent work I had completed on Rabindranath Tagore. I was talking to a lady lawyer who also did master’s in library science fromContinue reading “A Polymath”
Events During My Presidency Years
A perfect storm had just been brewed (in 1977) to mark the beginning of an indigenous computer industry in India.