Anirban Datta-Roy

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Surviving Surveys (11 votes)
Posted 13 years ago under LifeStyle > Cars & Bikes
The travelling salesmen who weren't (2 votes)
Posted 13 years ago under Offbeat > Humour
Meeting Mr. T (7 votes)
Posted 13 years ago under Offbeat > Humour
Death in the hills - the traagedy of the mithun deaths (2 votes)
Posted 13 years ago under Social > Environment
The curious case of the nosy healer (12 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under Offbeat > Humour
Capricious hair and disappearing yetis (4 votes)
Posted 17 years ago under Science > Life Sciences
The ebu gogo of Flores - an unfinished story (4 votes)
Posted 17 years ago under Science > Life Sciences
"You will snap" (4 votes)
Posted 17 years ago under Social > Wildlife

Latest posts by Anirban Datta-Roy

How I lost my wifi and learnt to live without it (before it came back to me)
Image from www.techradar.com Part 1: Shock and terror The one year warranty on my shiny, sleek and awesome Toshiba Ultrabook had just expired. Two days after that, I unplugged my laptop from the LAN cable in office and put it in 'hibernate' as usual. I came home and switched it on, hoping to connect...
Posted on 9 October 2013 | 9:20 am
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The travelling salesmen who weren't
This picture is from the most ill-planned and foolhardy trip to Tuting. But more about that some other time When K and me walk around with our backpacks in Yingkiong, people often wonder what products we are selling. We know this because frequently people come up to us and ask us "What product are y...
Posted on 9 August 2013 | 12:05 am
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Death in the hills-the tragedy of the mithun deaths
This article, co-written by Karthik and myself appeared in the June issue of Eye magazine brought out by the Indian Express. Among the many things that both of us have written about, this was one of the closest to our hearts. When one stays in a remote village for a large part of the year, one canno...
Posted on 31 July 2013 | 3:35 pm
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Meeting Mr. T
A post! A Post! Yup, when nudges become pushes and pushes turn to shoves, and one is forced to write, that is when the words finally tumble out. This is a small piece that got accepted in the Eastern Himalayas Newsletter (published from ATREE) in spite of its highly unconventional style. Since I hav...
Posted on 18 May 2013 | 10:07 am
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Acer Perspire One!
Modern technologyOwes ecologyAn apology.-- Alan M. Eddison---In light of recent developments with my Acer Aspire One, I think modern technology owes a bit more than an apology to ecology and ecologists like me. To state that I've been having problems with my mini laptop (apparently they are called '...
Posted on 1 May 2009 | 1:13 am
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The ebu gogo of Flores - an unfinished story
The locals knew of them as the ebu gogo, the 'grandmother who eats everything'. At first glance, it appeared to be one of those countless cryptozoological stories of mythical animals. "Probably a large macaque that was mistaken as a human" said the scientists.In 1998 a team led by Michael Morwood of...
Posted on 1 February 2009 | 10:39 pm
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