Dear AM, You freaked me out by talking about prime numbers, St Anthony, the politics of sainthood, and our Goa villages... all in one breath!
The other guy who did the same (even more intentionally) in the past week was Dilip D'Souza, the son of former Mumbai municipal commissioner J.B. D'Souza. Dilip is an East Indian, incidentally, and a very nice guy. This is what he wrote about his recently-launched column in *Mint* which he calls a new fortnightly numbers/math/science column called "A Matter of Numbers". Says Dilip: "My third effort went on air last Friday, June 10th. It's about cicadas, it's about primes, and I'd love it if you took a look and let me know your thoughts. Cicadas: Ready for prime time http://is.gd/7eTCRr Dilip is an engineer-turned-writer, and here are some links to his impressive work. Earlier he focussed a lot on that bizarre Raj-created institution called "criminal tribes" (which incidentally continued in "democratic India"... shame on us!) Dilip's book from HarperCollins India is: "Roadrunner: An Indian Quest in America" His email contact: [email protected] Death Ends Fun: http://dcubed.blogspot.com Our Judgement Free: http://ourjudgementfree.blogspot.com A brief description of him, put out by the business daily *Mint*: "Once a computer scientist, Dilip D’Souza now lives in Mumbai and writes for his dinners. A Matter of Numbers will explore the joy of mathematics, with occasional forays into other sciences. Comments are welcome at [email protected]" FN FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 (after 2pm) #784 Nr Lourdes Convent, Saligao 403511 Goa India http://fn.goa-india.org http://goa1556.goa-india.org On 21 June 2011 22:45, Antonio Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > > According to JoeGoaUK , the dates the feast of St Anthony was celebrated > last year, this year and the one > in the next year are 13th June, 19th June and 17th June respectively. Very > interesting indeed, since all > these digits are prime numbers i.e. not divisible by any other numbers.
