This implementation is not-very naive but it is not very efficient either. It can generate solutions up to n = 12, then it gets very slow. This is an extremely horrible solution to generate langford pairs by dilawar@ee.iitb.ac.in succesfully finished on Nov 27, 2011 after two days of labour. Is is advised not to …
It’s a dreadful pity when a beautifully spacious generalisation is upset by one or two simple facts. — Neville Cardus The doyen of Indian anthropology M. N. Srivinas said that an anthropologist is born thrice. He is ‘once-born’ when he initially goes to the field, away from his familiar surroundings to put himself in a …
From : Back page of ‘Bombay Pentangular’, S. K. Roy (1945) featuring C. K. Rayudu – India’s first great cricketer. Major C.K. Nayudu, once again, as on the first day of the match, was the idol of the huge crowd. Whether ‘C.K.’ played a ball, sent down a delivery or did some fielding, everything was …
(Almost) The first advertisement featuring a cricketer in India Read More »
The ingredients of the average Hindi films are well known; color (Eastman preferred); songs (six or seven) in voices one knows and trusts; dance – solo and ensemble – the more frenzied the better; bad girl, good girl, bad guys, goody guys, romance (but no kisses); tears, guffaws, fights, chases, melodrama; characters who exist in …
Following table is an outcome of notes taken for sole purpose of generalising Left and Right politics. Left politics is usually confused with ideology of some political parties. Such views of politics in popular media are confusing if not contradictory. The distinction made between Left and Right was of French origin where the Left is …
Some humans found insects worthy of their curiosity. Some have filmed and photographed them, wrote about them, imagined and personified them, few lived among them to study their life. David Attenborough narrates their life : showing us faces of their life : beautiful, cruel and benign. Europeans, in particular, were very interested in insects. No …
It has been advised not to judge a book by its cover (here are some clues if you do) but they did not say anything about its opening lines, which surely is a fair game. For if the author can’t take the trouble to carve out a good starting point from where rest of the …
Daughter The theory goes like that English ‘daughter’, German ‘Tochter’, Greek ‘thygater’, Irish ‘dear’, Lithuanian ‘dukte’, Russian ‘doch’, are common derivation with the Sankrit root ‘duh’ (to milk), so the word was, according to this theory, originally ‘dogdhri’ = she who milks, to indicate that it was the daughter of a primitive aryan family who …
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Over years, quality of fiction may have gone down a bit. There are few equivalents of Rabindranath Tagore, George Orwell and Tolstoy. But the quality of awards surely have nosedived. The Observer, writing in its editorial two days ago wonders if ‘James Joyce have ever made the Man Booker shortlist?’ We all know that its …