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We live in Santiniketan, where Tagore's unique experiment with
education was carried out and is still being carried out .... with varying degrees
of success!
We stay in a house atop an artificial mound (hillock?!!) in the
village of Kalapukurdanga. You can see a picture below :
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, our house
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My name is Arani Chakravarti. I am a lecturer in the department
of Physics, Visva Bharati.
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Rukminikumar
-left us on 4/12/2011,
aged 10+
Chandrabati
-left us on 5/03/2012,
aged 11+
Ducks in our pond
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My family consists of my wife Samita Seal
who was a lecturer
in Physics at Suri Vidyasagar College,
one goose, two cobras which
have their holes by the side of our
pond, one cockatiel (Mitul flew/stumbled in from
somewhere and we got a wife for him, Tuli. Later Mitul, who was very old apparently,
died. We found that Tuli was actually Tulailama and so got a wife, Kurchi, for him! After Tulailama died, Kurchi is now alone ...) and myself.
We are off grid, so no TV / refrigerator / bright lights / high-power music system / electric water pump (aha! built a solar pump! - noisy!)/ fan / etc.
It is great fun - I can assure you!
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