New hope for a son of Libya

This is Bashir Al Megaryaf. He's holding a poster demanding the release of his father, imprisoned in a Libyan jail for two decades. Bashir was only 1 when his father…

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Baba's legacy

A new book of my father's writings was released last week. "The Selected Works of Debabrata Basu" was compiled by Anirban Dasgupta, one of my father's former Ph.D students who…

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Is it a revolution?

I have not posted anything in a while -- I've been drowning at work with the Egypt story.But today, it happened. The unthinkable, really. I never thought that sheer people…

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