Have been away to Kolkata last week. On work. Therefore no time for play. Yes. Honestly, I mean it. But on the whole it was pretty enjoyable! Of course, the absence of Internet was pretty frustrating and the experience of getting absolutely drenched in the local storm "kalbaisakhi" was superb. However was anxious all the time because the tickets had not been bought, neither the registration not the hotel booking was done. By the way all this is for the LATTICE conference, to which I will be most probably going this time. South Calcutta seemed pretty much changed:beautification projects all around! The South City mall was big and nice, but not as great as some of the malls you can see in Bombay.
And yes, got to see a lot of wonderful sights from the plane. The sight of Bombay, as the plane was taking off----that of the Worli sea link was particularly wonderful. The roads were tubelights of light! So was Calcutta while getting down. It seemed so "cute"! While coming back, the most remarkable were that of the Western Ghats: you can make out where the ranges start, grow taller, some parts of the plateau sandwiched in between the mountains, and finally the mountains giving way to the narrow valley and finally the sea----mesmerising. You could see deep gorges when the river is in the mountain and ox-bow lakes as it is moving on a flat land: geography should be taught on the air like this!
Working hard on the Diffusion coefficient. Need to see how much the multilevel improves over the standard result.