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  The road not taken   When the road is lost in the woods we just wake up to our capacity to make a choice that makes a difference. That is what the poet Robert Frost urges to   us to do in the poem 'The Road Not Taken'   Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ---- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.   And that has made all the difference.... It was winter of 2002. Our personal computer had crashed once again. The recovery effort had destroyed all the data . I prepared myself for restoration of the most popular operating system .   I was hurling through the CD box for the right CD. My   eight year old bubbly daughter was helping me finding it. Then suddenly the cylinder shaped box dropped resulting in scurrying of all the CDs on the   floor.   She ran after them . Within little time she came back with couple of CDs in her little hands. Holding a colorful CD in her hand , She extended it to me an...

  Gurukaku - the man of courage & dignity   Gurukaku was my friend Rana’s uncle. Gurukaku was an average nondescript bengali personality. His type of men can be found countless all along the roads of Bengal. Dressed in dhuti and kutra, a long tail bag hanging from the shoulder and a cigarette in the mouth while cycling at leisure from the shop -   That was Gurukaku . His watch repairing business was quite flourishing in those days.   He died at 63 years of age. Despite repeated warning from docs he never quit smoking. He never took his life seriously. His wife complains that except his son   he never took anything seriously in life. When two of the three main artery of his heart were fully clogged and the doctor was warning death every now and then Gurukaku was nonchalantly reading a thick book or playing his keyboard .   He said ,’Let me complete this book first , before I lay down on the cold bed of your hospital, I may not get time agai...