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• October 30, 2021

  Dr. Sudhir Kumar Das Gupta – An Obsequy

  The river of life, like any other river, flows forwards. And by the time it reaches its estuary, it is often difficult to figure out where it originated. This is not true of mighty rivers, such as the Mississippi or the Nile or our own Ganges. But there were endlessly many smaller rivers that had borne their cargo filled boats since ancient times and dried up, leaving little trace of the waters that had lapped their shores in youth. To discover the course these rivers might have followed, or even their names sometimes, one needs to trace them backwards. The same observation applies to human beings too. Unlike David Copperfield, who told the story of his life “from the beginning of his life”, some, such as the person whose life story of sorts I will attempt to reconstruct, left behind him hardly any documentary trace of himself. …