The cops helped me straighten the bent fender enough to make me mobile and I turned back with a dangling headlight to go to my company-provided apartment in Alipore. The ferment was heady. I will be going to Calcutta in a few weeks to speak about China in the time of coronavirus. Naturally my first reaction was to get out and assess the damage. They found out that taurine seemed to increase the fear-reducing properties of alcohol, but it also affected social communication. The car worked beautifully and I did not even have to fix a flat tyre on the journey. The Communists may have renamed it Kolkata, but it will always be Calcutta to me. I got myself my own private copy of Mao’s Little Red Book. I was in the first car on the opposite side and all this unfolded in front of me as if in slow motion. I gathered it was Presidency College internecine warfare between a Naxal faction and the official CPI(M) group. And one day I hope to find a place in Calcutta that serves simple and steaming hot khana with fish curry.

One Sunday I was at the Taj Bengal and went down with a friend to the trendy Sonar Bangla restaurant.Zebrafish have similar biological and behavioral responses to alcohol, and are a highly social species, making them ideal for studying the effects of alcohol on behavior," he added.It was during this car-less interregnum that I found a small Bengali eatery near my apartment, which I began to frequent.But Calcutta was a seething cauldron. And my father had more or less hinted that I shouldn’t look to him for assistance since he had just whole sale aquariums retired as the first member of the AP Board of Revenue and the second topmost IAS officer in the state, by telling me more than once that his pension was going to be Rs 600 per month. One was firing a pistol in the air and the other was waving a short stabbing sword. Wondering what was going on, the lone policeman on duty walked up to the car to find out for himself what was going on. They were also tested for their fear-like responses to a predator by dividing the tank into four areas, with the furthest area used to mimic a predator fish.. We know who did it and we know what to do. It was a leisurely drive with stops wherever I felt like and wherever I had friends.The fish that were exposed to both alcohol and taurine had fewer interactions with other fish in the shoal compared to those exposed to water alone or just alcohol. I ordered the fixed course meal. It brings to fore an mélange of memories. Bhushan Rao. I still miss my Anushilan Samithy