Hi ! My name is Surajit Basu  . This is my virtual home, and it's about my friends and family, my interests and my guests.
You can read up the stories and verse in My
Notebook, check out the authors in my virtual book-case, or find a recommended read in the short book reviews. 
Or checkout the travel.logs, or ...
Why don't you start with the most difficult  Asterix quiz on the web? 
You may be able to reach the Asterix Hall of Fame!  
 
  Travel.log  :
 
 
 Rakhigarhi:  In search of an unknown 
civilization  Gwalior : Journey to the centre of India
  Kankwari:  In search of an unknown fort
    Delhi and Doon : Hot or cold ?
  Beauties in Bangkok 
  A ruined city : Rediscovered!  
  India's greatest university, ever   
  A place of peace : Unusual univ, with a universal message 
............. and more 
travelogs  
  
 
 
 
  
 
My Notebook : fiction, facts and fictional facts   
 Where the Streets have no name  : A special report on Internet InSecurity , virus, hackers...
  Crime and De(TECH)tion : Fraud in health-care insurance
  A little piece of fiction  : How real was the fiction ? Find out.  
  The view from the Couch : An unusual point of view 
  Flight  : A take-off from the usual
  In His own image  :Dr. Kruel, and his new twin
  Suraj and the Fever Fiend  : a story for a 8-year-old, almost ! 
  Good God! Another dotcom?  Breaking news of a new launch! 
  The Tale of Glabanore :a parable for Iimbis. (No, I am not one!). 
  How the World was Saved  from Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad 
  Slaka : Not yet? : A review of a unique book 
  Fraud news : Yahoo! Oscar flash:  How did the news break ? 
............. and more stories   
  
Virtual book-case: a collection of stuff on authors and 
artists  
 John Steinbeck   M.C. Escher   Graham Greene   Jawaharlal Nehru   Mahatma Gandhi   Calvin & Hobbes   Rabindranath Tagore   Stephen Covey   Satyajit Ray   Hofstadter   Vikram Seth   Ernest Hemingway   T.S. Eliot   William Shakespeare  
............. and more authors   
  
 Short 
reviews and ratings of books I have been reading   
 A section on 
self-reference  : stories, puzzles, and art. 
A special download for puzzlers and treasure-hunters: The classic adventure game now 
  available as a port to Windows. Click here to download 
  the game.  Size : 128K. Download time < 2 min.
 
Places 
 St Joseph's  IIT-K   IIM-C   HLL   Apex  Ibexi  
People 
 A-Top IIT-K   The C-mid gang   Nights in Hong Kong 
  At Apex Singapore   the ibexians  
  
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