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List of Impact Factors of Journals in which Abhijit Guha has published (click here)

Research Topics : Thermo-fluid-dynamics of Multiphase Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer, Gas Turbine and Power, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Environment (click for details)

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A Table of Research Topics and Representative Publications

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Dr R S Pandey Distinguished Lecture 2017, IIT Kanpur

The name of Professor Abhijit Guha appears within top 1% of world researchers compiled by leading scientists of Stanford University and published in 2020.

Journey through University of Cambridge	Publication Statistics 2012-2017 IIT Kharagpur
The celebrated journal Physics of Fluids Showcases research of the group 2016	MTech/MEng students publish in top journals	Physics of Fluids honours again 2017 Physics of Fluids honours again 2019

For 26 months continuously our 2013 paper in European J. Mechanics / B Fluids appears as one of the top 10 most downloaded papers; for more than 12 months it was within top 3.
41 months after publication it is still continuously present in the list of most downloaded papers (the only paper having this distinction!).

Slide-show of representative publications of Abhijit Guha

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Interphase Transport Processes J. Fluid Mechanics 1991	Non-equilibrium Condensation Phil Trans Royal Society 1994	Total Pressure in Multiphase Flow Proc. Royal Society 1998	Shock Wave in Multiphase Flow J. Fluid Mechanics 1992	Unsteady Condensation Shock IMechE ISBN 0852987617 1991
Turbulent Transport and Deposition J Aerosol Science 1997	Rankine-Hugoniot for Multiphase Physics of Fluids 1994	Thermal Choking ASME J Fluids Engg 1994	Analytical Theory of Total Pressure ASME J Fluids Engg 1998	Turbulent Multiphase Flow Annual Review Fluid Mech 2008
Mixed Convection on Rotating Disc Int J Heat Mass Transfer 2017	Natural Convection on Inclined Plate Int J Thermal Sciences 2017	Natural Convection on Finite Plate Physics of Fluids 2016	Natural Convection on Vertical Plate Physics of Fluids 2017	Natural Convection non-Newtonian Fluid Int J Heat Mass Transfer 2014
Thermophoresis in Natural Convection J Aerosol Science 2014	MHD Natural Convection J Molecular Liquids 2017	Thermophoresis Natural Convection Int J Heat Mass Transfer 2014	Similarity Theory Natural Convection Int J Heat Mass Transfer 2012	Integral Theory Natural Convection ASME J Heat Transfer 2013
Fluid Dynamics Branched Network Physics of Fluids 2016	Secondary Flow 3D Branched Network Physics of Fluids 2017	Fluid Dynamics of Symmetry Physics of Fluids 2017	Fluid Dynamics of Rotating Flow Eur J Mechanics B Fluids 2013	von Karman Flow in Bingham Fluid Physics of Fluids 2016
Pressure Variation in Microchannel Physics of Fluids 2016	Work Transfer in Microchannel Physics of Fluids 2014	Nanofluid in Microchannel Applied Math Modelling 2015	A Theory of Tesla Turbine IMechE J Power Energy 2012	Pathline in Tesla Turbine Computers & Fluids 2013
Experiments on Tesla Turbine IMechE J Power Energy 2009	Nozzle Design for Tesla Turbine IMechE J Power Energy 2010	Scaling Laws for Tesla Turbine IMechE J Power Energy 2014	Optimization of Tesla Turbine IMechE J Power Energy 2017	Inflow-Rotor Interaction Tesla Turbine IMechE J Power Energy 2018
Optimization of Aero Engine Aeronautical J. 2001	Real Gas Effects in Gas Turbine IMechE J Power Energy 2001	Optimization of Turbofan Engine IMechE J Aerospace Eng 2013	NOx Prediction in Turbofan Engine AIAA J Propulsion Power 2012	Sustainable Turbofan Engine (H2) IMechE J Aerospace Eng 2013
Optimum Fan Pressure Turbofan AIAA J Propulsion Power 2001	Combustion Effects in Gas Turbine IMechE Mech Engg Sc 2003	Unsteady Analysis of Solar Pond Solar Energy 1987a	Concentration Profile in Solar Pond Solar Energy 1987b	Bio-inspired Heat Exchanger Acta Astronautica 1997
Transonic CFD of Turbine IMechE J Power Energy 2005	CFD Moving Shock Multiphase IUTAM ISBN 3540502033 1990	Theory, Computation Multiphase Aeronautical J. 1998	Generalized Mass Transfer Law Heat Mass Transfer 2008	Environment in Large Kitchens Building & Environment 2012

Gonville and Caius College Trinity College Other Colleges Whittle Laboratory Cambridge Engineering Dept
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Links to Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge

Abhijit Guha in Cambridge Fellows' Register

Abhijit Guha living in Lord Rutherford's House

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Lord Rutherford's House

Abhijit Guha living in Stephen Hawking's House (PhD Degree Day)

After receiving his PhD from Trinity College Cambridge and before joining University of Bristol, Dr Abhijit Guha spent several years as a Fellow at Gonville & Caius College. He first stayed in Prof Stephen Hawking's house in Little St. Mary's Lane (behind the 'GradPad'), and then moved to the Newnham Cottage (which was the residence of the famous Lord Rutherford**) situated in the Harvey Court with a magnificent lawn in the front and a garden on the side. It was a real privilege to have regular interactions, including lunches and High-Table dinners, with the likes of Nevill Mott (Nobel Laureate), Stephen Hawking (Lucasian Prof), Sam Edwards (Cavendish Prof), David Shoenberg (FRS), Peter Gray (Master, FRS), David Tabor (FRS) and similarly distinguished Fellows of many disciplines. In 1348 Edmund Gonville bought a piece of land and left money in his will, but it was not until 1490 that Gonville Court was built. Later, in 1557, John Caius, a student of Gonville College, refounded his old college as Gonville & Caius (pronounced as "Keys"). The College has three gates symbolising the progress of the students through the university. The student enters through the simple and plain Gate of Humility. (The word "humilitatis" is carved on the gate.) In the middle is the large and austere Gate of Virtue, built in the renaissance classical style. Last but not the least is the ornate Gate of Honour, with its sun-dials and dome. The student passes through it straight into the Senate House to receive the degree. By 2008 the College have had 12 Nobel Laureates, which is the second highest total (Trinity College Cambridge occupies the first position) out of all colleges in Cambridge or Oxford, including James Chadwick (discovery of neutron), Nevill Mott (electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, Mott transition), Francis Crick (double helix as the structure for DNA), Max Born (quantum mechanics, statistical interpretation of wavefunction), Howard Florey (discovery of penicillin and its curative effect, sharing with Alexander Fleming and EB Chain) and Antony Hewish (discovery of pulsars). The alumni of the College include Homi Bhabha, John Conway, Ronald Fisher, John Venn, George Green and William Harvey. In 1628 William Harvey published a book "On the motion of the heart and blood" that contained a detailed and comprehensive description of the systemic circulation. Since then the College has retained its excellence in research. Stephen Hawking is a Fellow of this college, who has become a legend during his lifetime. The link below gives a presentation on the college life including music from the Caius Choir, with some magnificent new pictures of the College by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer in Residence, Dan White.
Caius_College_Life Slide Show
Gonville & Caius College website
** Historical note: Prof David Shoenberg, the famous Professor of low temperature physics, on his visit to A Guha's residence in Newnham Cottage in 1995 made interesting recollections of his earlier visits to the Newnham Cottage in the 1930's to attend Rutherford's afternoon tea parties. British Society for History of Mathematics web-site notes: "Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), who succeeded J J Thomson as Cavendish professor in 1919, lived at Newnham Cottage, Queen's Road from 1919 to his death in 1937, caused by falling from a tree he was pruning in the garden."

Links to Trinity College, University of Cambridge

Photo: Abhijit Guha receiving the PhD Degree from the Vice-Chancellor on the Degree Ceremony Day

Matriculation Photo of Abhijit Guha at Trinity College

Photo: Abhijit Guha living in Butler House, Trinity College

Abhijit Guha received his PhD degree in Engineering from Trinity College. He was the Prince of Wales Scholar (this Scholarship for 3 years is given by Trinity College to the best candidate of all commonwealth countries, including the United Kingdom, out of all subject disciplines). During this period he was also an Honorary Nehru Scholar (this scholarship is awarded by Nehru Trust to about 10 PhD students from all over India in all disciplines). He later became a Senior Rouse Ball Scholar at Trinity college, which is bestowed upon a work which "has greatly impressed the Electors by its quality and promise in an area of research which is worthy of continued support". Trinity College is the most famous of Cambridge colleges with 32 Nobel Laureates (up to 2009). As an example, Sir Andrew Huxley, who was the Master of the college during the first phase of Abhijit Guha's time at the college is a Nobel Laureate. The college also has had similarly top-ranking mathematicians. (There is no Nobel Prize in the field of mathematics, Fields Medal is considered of the same stature - for example, Sir Michael Atiyah, who was the Master of the college during the second phase of Abhijit Guha's time at the college, is a Fields Medalist. He also won the Abel Prize in 2004.) Of the current Fellows of the College in 2011, there are 4 Nobel Prize winners, 3 Fields Medalists, 37 FRS and 22 FBA's, additionally 3 Honorary Fellows are Nobel Laureates. King Henry VIII founded the college in 1546. Issac Newton is its most famous member on whose statue the following words are inscribed "Qui genus humanum ingenio superavit". James Clark Maxwell (one of the greatest theoretical physicists ever and the first Cavendish Professor), Ernest Rutherford (one of the greatest pioneers of subatomic physics), GI Taylor (the great fluid dynamicist famous for his statistical theory of turbulence; he also proposed in 1934 the idea of dislocation in crystals), Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley (giving the physico-chemical explanation of the transmission of nerve impulses), Charles Babbage (who built the forerunner of modern computers), WH Fox Talbot (an inventor of photography), Ludwig Wittgenstein (one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century writing Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 1921 and Philosophical Investigations 1953) are all "Trinity Men", as are Francis Bacon, Alfred Tennyson, Lord Byron, Amartya Sen, Lord Rayleigh, JJ Thomson, William Bragg, Niels Bohr, Arthur Eddington, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Alfred Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, John Littlewood, Godfrey H Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan. GH Hardy, in his book A Mathematician's Apology (and CP Snow in its Foreword), has immortalised the Trinity tradition in mathematics and the Hardy-Ramanujan legend. The picture on the right is of the iconic fountain which is in the middle of the Great Court which is the largest court in Cambridge or Oxford. The challenge is to complete a rectangular path surrounding the fountain as the college clock strikes twelve (Film: Chariots of Fire). The Nevile's Court is smaller in dimension and is lined by the Wren Library which was completed in 1695 to the design of Sir Christopher Wren. The library has many special collections including the Capell collection of early Shakespeare editions, AA Milne's manuscripts of Winnie-the-Pooh, and many books from Sir Issac Newton's own library including preliminary manuscripts for Issac Newton's 1687 Principia, several early editions of the book and the correspondence between Issac Newton and Richard Bentley on Principia. On the roof of the Wren Library are four statues representing Divinity, Law, Physics and Mathematics. The legend is that Newton determined the speed of sound by measuring the time that a hand-clap took to reflect in a corridor of the Nevile's Court. At the back of Trinity is the magnificent The Avenue - the road through a continuous living arch formed by two colonnades of lime and cherry trees on both sides - that connects the New Court to the Fellows Garden on the other side of Queen's Road, going over the river Cam and through The Backs. On the other side of the Fellows Garden there are student hostels including the Butler House on Grange Road, in which A Guha resided during his first year at Cambridge. The impressive main entrance to Trinity College, the Great Gate, has a statue of Henry VIII holding a ------ in his hand (find out what when you next visit Trinity!).

Trinity College website

BBC's panoramic view of the Great Court

Trinity Plan

Newton

Great Gate

Great Court

Fountain

Nevile's Court/
Wren Library

The Avenue

Punting on River Cam

Other than Trinity and Caius, Abhijit Guha is also implicitly associated to two other very distinguished Cambridge colleges - St. John's and Churchill - both of them had offered him to become a Fellow. Although AG finally joined Caius as a Fellow, he gratefully acknowledges the honoured opportunity simultaneously provided by St. John's and Churchill. Churchill is one of the newer colleges distinguishing in science and engineering, and St. John's is the college of Paul Dirac. (Dirac was educated at Bristol, was one of the leaders in quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of positron for which he received the Nobel Prize. He shared the Nobel Prize 1933 with Erwin Schrödinger with the citation: "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory".)

Links to Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge

This is Cambridge's world-famous turbomachinery laboratory, named after Frank Whittle - one of the inventors of the jet engine for aircraft propulsion. Whittle Laboratory is a part of the Engineering Department but situated outside the city centre, by the side of Madingley Road. Abhijit Guha was fortunate to be at this laboratory during its "golden period"**, its academic members included a catalogue-full of famous people and pioneers in the field - Sir William Hawthorne (FRS), Sir John Horlock (FRS), John Denton (FRS), Denis Whitehead, Nick Cumpsty, John Young, Bill Dawes, Tom Hynes, Howard Hodson and Ivor Day, and the laboratory was frequently visited by luminaries across the world, e.g. Edward Greitzer of the MIT Gas Turbine Laboratory or Claus Sieverding of the von Karman Institute. There was constant and vigorous interaction with engine manufacturers like Rolls-Royce and GE, and other industries. There was a community culture inside the laboratory with professors, students and technicians taking tea/coffee together at 11am and 4pm, and many walking together to the nearby cafeteria at Cavendish Laboratory for lunch. John Denton was one of the pioneers in the field of time-marching CFD techniques and would readily give all members of the laboratory access to his computer codes (very expensive top-selling products); similarly Bill Dawes's viscous CFD codes were available to laboratory members when needed. This atmosphere of co-operation helped to sustain and amplify excellence and world-leadership. A nostalgic reunion took place in 2003 to mark the laboratory's 30th anniversary.
** As described by John Denton in his speech on the 30th anniversary.
Picture of Silver Mug presented to Abhijit Guha by Whittle Laboratory, Cambridge University

Whittle Laboratory website

Add to the list of the luminaries at Whittle Laboratory mentioned above, the likes of Profs Ffowcs-Williams (RAE Whittle Medal), Ann Dowling (FRS), Ken Bray (FRS) or Rex Britter - and one gets a contemporary picture of the thermofluids group (Division A) of the Cambridge Engineering Department during the time of Abhijit Guha at Cambridge. On top of this, was the legendary faculty at DAMTP, including GK Batchelor, David Crighton, JCR Hunt and H Huppert. It is at Cambridge that AG met many other Masters such as Sir James Lighthill (FRS), Adrian Bejan or Ascher Shapiro. Thursday 2:30 was the time for research seminars for Division A, and a long procession of bicycles used to transport the people of Whittle Laboratory to the main site at Trumpington Street (the forward and return journey being of about 4 miles). The Engineering Library had 24/7 access and borrowing facility - even a PhD student could borrow any book at any time (say, 4am should one so wished) on any day (including holidays), all that was needed was the filling - on trust - of the details of the borrowed items on a piece of paper which would be formalised by the library staff on the next working day. Abhijit Guha taught Two Phase Heat Transfer to final year engineering students, this gained such reputation among students that the deputy Head of Department (i.e. deputy Dean engineering faculty) wrote unprecedented Letters of Commendation each year.

Cambridge has a long tradition of being a world-leading research centre in fluid dynamics. Starting from Issac Newton, fluid dynamicists of the absolutely highest calibre like George Stokes, G.I. Taylor, James Lighthill and George Batchelor have made the contribution to this field distinctive. Fluid dynamicists like Osborne Reynolds have been educated at Cambridge. Cambridge has similarly nurtured pioneers and world-leaders in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) – D.B. Spalding and Antony Jameson were educated at Cambridge, J.D. Denton worked there. The leading journal in the field – the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM) – was founded by George Batchelor in 1956 and is published by the Cambridge University Press (CUP). Batchelor was the editor of the journal for some forty years.

The Cambridge Dimension
Cambridge has given Issac Newton and Charles Darwin. Cambridge's attainment of the summit is demonstrable from a simple but startling statistics - by 2010, 65 students of the University of Cambridge, 57 academic staff, 88 affiliates altogether have won the Nobel Prize (which is awarded since 1901). The breadth offered by Cambridge is equally awe-inspiring. The following is the summary of this feeling captured during the course of journey of one man through this university.

Cambridge provided an extraordinary atmosphere for research excellence. One not only had the access to the wisdom of the topmost experts in one’s own field, but also could have first-hand awareness about the developments and discoveries in other fields. Outside the thermofluids area mentioned above, one could also attend lectures of the likes of Michael Ashby (FRS, FEng, h-index > 60), KL Johnson (FRS, FEng), CR Calladine (FRS, FREng) or Jim Woodhouse in other fields of engineering. Cambridge was the regular venue for lectures by international Masters in all fields - be it arts and humanities, physical-biological-social sciences, mathematics and computing, or engineering. It is here that A Guha has attended lectures by Stephen Hawking (cosmology, imaginary time,...), Roger Penrose (cosmology, consciousness and intelligence), Edward Witten (mathematical physics, highest h-index (185 in 2016) of any living physicist), Fred Hoyle (nucleosynthesis, steady state theory, origin of life), Murray Gell-Mann (complexity), Abdus Salam (unification of forces), Benoît Mandelbrot (fractal), Michael Atiyah (knot theory, topology), Christopher Zeeman (catastrophe theory), GI Barenblatt (scaling laws, chaos), Michael Ashby (engineering design, materials selection), James Lighthill (fluid dynamics of hearing), CR Calladine (analysis of biological structures), JE Ffowcs-Williams (fluid dynamics of snoring), Jim Woodhouse (physics of musical instruments), Roddam Narasimha (turbulence, Indian space and rocket technology), JCR Hunt (turbulence), H Huppert (magma flow), William Hawthorne (turbomachinery, jet engines), Freeman Dyson, Anita Desai (reading from own novels), and Amartya Sen (development economics), among countless others (apology for the incompleteness of the list). Many in the list of speakers won the Nobel Prize/Fields Medal. All stalwarts of Whittle Laboratory presented at least one seminar each year. It was during the period 1993-1995 when Andrew Wiles and Richard Taylor, both former students of University of Cambridge, created international intellectual excitement by proving the Fermat's Last Theorem.

Cambridge had an intellectual and philosophical ambience – one would discuss about Alan Turing, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Noam Chomsky or Jacques Derrida, for example. A Guha, as a Fellow of Caius (a so-called 'Cambridge Don'), personally witnessed in 1992 one of the rare twentieth century spectacle of Senate Voting at University of Cambridge on whether an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree would be offered to the French philosopher Jacques Derrida known for his work on deconstruction. Cambridge also offered an international ambience – interactions with various cultures and viewpoints made one wise and tolerant.

The specialist and public lectures organized in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Babbage Lecture Theatre, Newton Institute or departmental lecture theatres are such rich sources of knowledge, analysis and critical thinking that they truly widen the horizon, enrich human life and do not let one become myopic. Other than one-off lectures by international luminaries, there are also organized series of public lectures. For example, A Guha still cherishes the superb Darwin Lecture Series as well as a set of uplifting lectures on Italian paintings and sculptures by Prof. Patrick Boyde. Since 1986, the Darwin Lecture Series is organized each year on a particular theme on which international experts in diverse fields present 8 lectures (each year) on different aspects of the common theme. This outstanding lecture series has covered topics such as "Origins", "Fragile Environment", "Discoveries", "Catastrophe", "Intelligence", "Evolution", "Colour", "Sound", "Memory", "Body", "Time", "Space", "Power", "DNA", "Evidence", "Conflict", "Survival", "Identity", "Serendipity", "Darwin", "Risk". For a willing mind, Cambridge thus provides an unparalleled opportunity for all-round learning. No wonder, the university has maintained its world-leading excellence for 800 years, the 800th anniversary having been celebrated in 2009.
Picture of Silver Mug presented to Abhijit Guha by Whittle Laboratory, Cambridge University

See some of the photographs of the beauty of twilight and darkness that I have taken recently (without a tripod).
150 sublime impressions of magnificence, intrigue and romanticism (don't miss the last half!).
Please do not copy, reproduce, transmit, or use these photos in any form without my permission.
I have not included Portrait photography here for reasons of privacy of the subjects.

Queen's Building, Bristol Engineering Faculty	Victoria Rooms, Department of Music, Bristol
Sunset on Clifton Downs, Bristol	View of Bristol from the stairs of Queen's Building (through glass)
King's College Chapel interior, Cambridge	Dining Hall of ChristChurch College, Oxford
Clifton Suspension Bridge (Engineer I.K. Brunel) 1352 ft long, 31 ft wide, 245 ft above high water level, operating since 1864	Clifton Suspension Bridge (Engineer I.K. Brunel) Designed in 1831, current traffic about 4 million vehicles per year
Twilight View of the sky and Clifton houses, Bristol	Junction at Cotham (Hampton Park) at twilight, Bristol
Park Street at dusk, Bristol	The Mystery of Clifton Suspension Bridge
Bristol Chemistry	Bristol Wills Memorial standing tall
Wills Memorial Building from a distance	Clifton Downs (Bristol) Shopping Complex at Full Moon
Darjeeling Mall at night	Gangtok MG Marg at night
IIT Kharagpur academic area at night	IIT Kharagpur academic area at night
Deepavali Illumination RP Hall IIT KGP 2014 Kaliya daman by Lord Krishna	Deepavali Illumination RK Hall IIT KGP 2014 Lord Krishna delivering the Geeta to Arjuna Masterpieces created by students of IIT KGP with thousands of earthen oil-lamps (diya)
Deepavali Rangoli RK Hall IIT KGP 2014 Masterpieces created by students of IIT KGP with coloured powder	Deepavali Rangoli RK Hall IIT KGP 2014 Masterpieces created by students of IIT KGP with coloured powder
Kalipuja 2014 IIT Kharagpur	A Photographic Analogue of Impressionist Painting (IIT KGP)
IIT Kharagpur - the green serenity	IIT Kharagpur - the green serenity
Avon Gorge, Bristol	Cabot Tower on Brandon Hill, Bristol
Avon Gorge and Suspension Bridge, Bristol	Avon Gorge and Suspension Bridge, Bristol
University of Bristol, with magnificent lawns	Department of Physics, University of Bristol
Bristol Cathedral and Raja Rammohan Roy	A Park with modern mirror art, University of Bristol
Beach at Bournemouth	Beach at Bournemouth
Water Cascade near Pulteney Bridge, Bath (UK)	Water Cascade near GradPad, Cambridge
Back to Creative Art top The Royal Crescent, Bath	The Avon, Bath
The Bath Cathedral	Cycle Show near Bath Cathedral
A House in Bournemouth	Westminster and Big Ben, London
The London Eye (Millennium Wheel)	The Thames in London
Trafalgar Square, London	Trafalgar Square, London
Central London	Floral Decoration in London
No 10 Downing Street, London	Tower of London
Buckingham Palace, London	Tower Bridge, London
Gate near Buckingham Palace	Lake and fountain near Buckingham Palace
Park near Buckingham Palace, London	Park near Buckingham Palace, London
Weeping Willow and River Cam, Cambridge	Lavender near Buckingham Palace, London
Mathematical Bridge, Queens College, Cambridge	Punting at Cambridge
Cambridge bustling with international visitors	King's College, Cambridge
King's College Chapel, Cambridge	King's College Chapel, Cambridge
King's College Chapel Interior, Cambridge	King's College Chapel Interior with the Organ
Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge	Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
Back to Creative Art top Gate of Humility, Caius College, Cambridge	Gate of Honour, Caius College, Cambridge
Nevile's Court and Wren Library, Trinity College	Place where Newton is said to have measured speed of sound Nevile's Court, Trinity College
Cambridge School of Management	Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Cambridge City Centre	Cambridge Graduate Centre
Garrett Hostel Lane, Cambridge	Burrell's Walk, Cambridge
Master's Lodge, Trinity College, Cambridge	Fellow's Garden, Trinity College, Cambridge
Fellow's Garden, Trinity College, Cambridge	Garden at Clare College, Cambridge
Garden in Bath, UK	Cherry Blossom, Bristol
Roadside Flower, Bristol	Roadside Flower, Bristol
Roadside Wild Flower, Bristol	Roadside Wild Flower, Bristol
Wild Flower 1, Darjeeling	Wild Flower 2, Darjeeling
Wild Flower 3, Darjeeling	Wild Flower 4, Darjeeling
Flower Show 1, Gangtok	Flower Show 2, Gangtok
Flower Show 3, Gangtok	Flower Show 4, Gangtok
Back to Creative Art top Flower Show 5, Gangtok	Flower Show 6, Gangtok
Flower Show 7, Gangtok	Flower Show 8, Gangtok
Tajmahal - a view from an unorthodox angle	Tajmahal - an artistic view
Tajmahal - "a teardrop on the face of eternity"	Tajmahal with reflection in water
Tajmahal in morning glow	Tajmahal - a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Tajmahal: the gateway in the east	Tajmahal: the eastern gate reflected in water
Tajmahal - an intricate design	Tajmahal - an intricate design
Agra Fort - Mughal royal residence and military strategy centre Built by Emperor Akbar during 1565-1573, enhanced by Jahangir and Shah Jahan	Agra Fort: musamman burj built by Shah Jahan
Agra Fort: diwan-i-am or hall of audience This housed the Peacock Throne until Shah Jahan moved it to Red Fort Delhi	Agra Fort: long corridors and open space
Bara Imambara (Lucknow, India) Built by Nawab of Lucknow in 1784	Bara Imambara (Lucknow, India) It contains a bhulbhulaya - a 3-dimensional labyrinth of interconnected passages and 489 identical doorways
The Mysterious India (Lucknow)	Rumtek Monastery, Gangtok
RasMancha, Bishnupur (West Bengal, India) Built by Malla King Veer Hambir in 1600	RasMancha, Bishnupur (A National Heritage, India) Used up to 1932 for annual public display of all Krishna idols of Bishnupur
Terracotta Temple at Bishnupur (ShyamRai or Pachchura) Built by Malla King Raghunath Singha in 1643	Terracotta Details, Pachchura Temple A National Heritage, India
Terracotta Temple at Bishnupur (Jorbangla) Built by Malla King Raghunath Singha in 1655	Terracotta Details, Jorbangla Temple A National Heritage, India
Interpretation of Terracotta details of Jorbangla Temple, Bishnupur
House of Sri Ramakrishna at Kamarpukur Kamarpukur (and Jairambati ): a place for pilgrimage	The Holy Pond at Kamarpukur Halder pukur in which Sri Ramakrishna and Sarada Devi used to bathe
Banyan Tree and other vegetation on the ruins of Bishnupur Palace	A village pond in Bengal covered with water-lillies, India
Back to Creative Art top Rock Garden, Darjeeling	Banjhakri Fall, Gangtok
Darjeeling Ropeway	Confluence of Rivers Teesta and Rangeet, Darjeeling
The Teesta River	The Brahmaputra River (Guwahati)
Mukutmanipur Dam	Digha Sea Beach
Fishing as the livelihood at river confluence (Digha-Shankarpur)	Sea-shell Shop at Digha
Weaving of the famous Baluchari Saree, Bishnupur	A Baul singing near Jorbangla Temple, Bishnupur
Commerce in Tea Leaves, Darjeeling	Corn on the roadside, Gangtok
Mysterious Cloud on Tea Gardens, Darjeeling	The Mystery of Cloud on Gangtok Hill, India
Sunrise at Digha	Dusk at Digha beach
Dusk at Lucknow, India	IIT KGP Guest House in the evening after a shower
Sunset on the Ganges, Calcutta (Panihati)	Sunset on the Ganges, Calcutta (Panihati)
River Confluence at Mukutmanipur	Sunset at Mukutmanipur
Sunset on Clifton Downs, Bristol	Sunset at Bournemouth
Full Moon at IIT Kharagpur, Buddha Purnima 2010	Full Moon at IIT Kharagpur, Buddha Purnima 2010

Newton

Great Gate

Great Court

Fountain

Nevile's Court/
Wren Library

The Avenue

Punting on River Cam

Sight and Sound of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Slide Show on IIT Kharagpur by Abhijit Guha

IIT Kharagpur during a June Shower by Abhijit Guha

Tunes of songs played by me on an electric guitar. All songs home-recorded by me with a basic cassette recorder (i.e. external recording through the built-in microphone of the cassette recorder) while also playing at the same time the tunes on the guitar. I have given the mp3 sound files (24 kbps only) below if you are interested, but please do not retain a copy. I have provided my (inept) translation of the first lines of the songs so that the tunes make some contextual sense even to those who do not know the original songs.

Songs of Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Laureate)

. chhinno patay sajai tauroni eka eka kori khela
("I decorate the boat with torn leaves and play all alone".)
. amar mone baule chai chai chai go
("My mind says, I want, I want".)
. dariye aachho tumi amar ganer opare
("You remain standed on the other side of my songs, my tunes can touch your feet but I can't".)
. amar hiyar majhe lukiye chhile dakhte tomay pi ni
("You remained hidden right inside my heart, I did not see you. I always cast my look outside, never looked inward".)
. bausonte phool ganthlo amar jauyer mala
. ei monihar amay nahi saje
. keno chokher jaule bhijiye dilum na
. ektuku chhoa lagey ektuku kautha shuni
. more beena othe kone sure baji
. prano bhoriye trisha horiye more aro aro dao pran
. purano shei diner kautha (based on a Scottish tune)
. sedin dujoney dulechhino boney
. tomar pujar chhaule tomay bhule thaki
. tumi raube niraube
. tumi more pao ni porichoy

Modern/Film/Nazrul Songs

. aami jar nupurero chhaundo (Nazrul)
("Of whose anklet chimes I am the rhythm".)
. bharot amar bharotbarsha (Manna Dey)
("India, my motherland".)
. sundori go dohai tomar (Manna Dey)
("Oh beautiful girl, I beg you".)
. shayono raate jodi smarone ashe more (Nazrul, Manna Dey)
("If you remember me on a rainy shravana night".)
. aami kone pauthe je choli (Manna Dey)
. bauro loker beti lo lamba lamba chool
. chaurono dhorite diyogo amare (Hemanta Mukherjee, Tagore)
. modhumalati dake aay (Sandhya Mukherjee)
. nayone bhaura jaul go (Nazrul)
. o akash sona sona o mati sobuj sobuj (Hemanta Mukherjee)
. oliro kautha shune bokul hashe (Hemanta Mukherjee)
. aami je jaulshaghaure (Manna Dey)

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ARTICLES AND PRESENTATION

Common People in Rabindranath Tagore's Poems

A critique (article in English) by Abhijit Guha, published in the magazine that accompanied the organization of UTSAV - the great celebration of Indian Culture at Cambridge in 1990, which was attended by, among others, the Indian High Commissioner.

Light Moments in Engineering

A humorous article (in English) by Abhijit Guha, published in the magazine that accompanied the organization of UTSAV - the great celebration of Indian Culture at Cambridge in 1990, which was attended by, among others, the Indian High Commissioner.

Will Not the Heaven be Bought?

A critique (article in Bengali) by Abhijit Guha of the current status of mass education in West Bengal, published in the 1998 annual magazine Sambodhi of the Forum for Science and Culture.

At the Moment of Birth of the Year 2000

A reflective article in Bengali by Abhijit Guha on the initiation of the new millenium around the world and its implications on the human existence, published in the 2000 annual magazine Sambodhi of the Forum for Science and Culture.

I Have Walked on This Path Many a Time

An article of reminiscence (in Bengali) by Abhijit Guha, published in the 2001 magazine to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of his secondary school.

alor khabor (News of Light)

A reflective article (in Bengali) by Abhijit Guha asking for the establishment of a culture in which the news of light is given the focal attention instead of the present domination of the media space by the news of darkness, published in the 2012 annual magazine of the Bengali Association of IIT Kharagpur.

Role of Parents in the Development of Children

annual-gathering-2003-bengali-literature-abhijit-guha

A speech given by Abhijit Guha as the Chief Guest at the anuual conference (2003) of a local charity in Calcutta, also attended by the Director of National Institute of Behavioural Sciences.
(The speech has been videotaped but the file size is too large. Click on the link to see the display board for outlines.)

Famous Indian Scientists

An article on history of science (in English) by Abhijit Guha.

A short biography of Frank Whittle and the timeline of the development of Jet Propulsion

abhijit-guha-article-Frank-Whittle-iit-kharagpur.pdf

An article on history of science (in English) by Abhijit Guha.

stephen hawking-er sanniddhye ekti upolobdhi (A Realization in the Company of Stephen Hawking)

A reflective article (in Bengali) by Abhijit Guha describing one selected personal experience with Stephen Hawking that shows exemplary precision in Hawking's use of language, published in the 2013 annual magazine of the Bengali Association of IIT Kharagpur.

On the Passing Away of a Living Legend Stephen Hawking 14 March 2018

A letter (in English) sent to the Master of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.

Article on Stephen Hawking in Bengali Literary Magazine DESH (Cover Story)

A commemorative article (in Bengali) by Abhijit Guha describing a few selected personal experiences with Stephen Hawking over a long period during which Abhijit Guha was a Fellow at Gonville and Caius College at which Stephen Hawking was a professorial Fellow.

Article on Stephen Hawking in Children's Magazine HULLOR (WBCPCR)

The story of a university student and the discovery of the Josephson Effect

abhijit-guha-article-Brian-Josephson-iit-kharagpur.pdf

An article on history of science (in English) by Abhijit Guha.

POEMS

The King Who Begged (raj bhikhari)

A poem (both in English and Bengali) by Abhijit Guha, published in the magazine that accompanied the organization of UTSAV - the great celebration of Indian Culture at Cambridge in 1990, which was attended by, among others, the Indian High Commissioner. The poem cries for love, not fame.

swa-birodh (Self-Contradiction)

A poem (in Bengali ) by Abhijit Guha published in the 2010 annual magazine of the Bengali Association of IIT Kanpur.
The poem is about how the essence of a life takes shape in the context of several conflicting forces.

janmo jantrona (Birth-Pain)

A poem (in Bengali) by Abhijit Guha on the philosophy of life published in the 2010 annual magazine of the Bengali Association of IIT Kharagpur.
Click here to listen to Abhijit Guha's recitation of this poem in Bengali

Birth-Pain (in English)

English Version of the poem janmo jantrona on the philosophy of life written by Abhijit Guha.
Click here to listen to Abhijit Guha's recitation of this poem in English

tarar janmo (Birth of Stars)

A poem (in Bengali) by Abhijit Guha published in the 2011 annual magazine of the Bengali Association of IIT Kharagpur.
The poem mixes the philosophy of life with an aspiration that each student will become a centre of excellence.

facebook yuge onnyo torun (A Different Youth in the Facebook Age)

A poem (in Bengali) by Abhijit Guha published in the 2011 annual magazine of the Bengali Association of IIT Kharagpur.
The poem expresses in unornamental language the plight of love of the simple but most profound nature in the facebook age.
The poem begins like this: "Stretch your palm / Hold this raindrop I present you / On the tip of a paddy branch./"

"saub choritro kalponik" (All Characters are Imaginary)

A poem (in Bengali) by Abhijit Guha published in the 2012 annual magazine of the Bengali Association of IIT Kharagpur.
The poem is about love, life and deeper truths that sustain or destroy one's existence.

"phaguner phool jai jhoria" (The End of the Spring)

A poem (in Bengali) by Abhijit Guha published in the 2013 annual magazine of the Bengali Association of IIT Kharagpur.
The poem is about love, and its continuance after its death.

The poem published in the 2013 annual magazine will appear here shortly.

["amr" files can be played by AMRplayer (download), Apple Quicktime Player (download), Realplayer (download), or Windows Media Player.]

My recitation of poems written by Rabindranath Tagore, Nazrul and other modern poets.
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Kamal Pasha (mp3, click)
This is a Bengali poem written by Nazrul. The subject-matter is the description of a freedom struggle with its achievements and prices. I performed this version of the recitation at Utsav - the great celebration of Indian Culture at Cambridge in 1990, which was attended by, among others, the Indian High Commissioner. I have given the mp3 sound file above. Please do not retain a copy of the mp3 file with you. Apology for the sound quality and the recorded sound-level of the accompanying music.

Fariad (amr, click)
This is a Bengali poem written by Nazrul. Abridged. Recorded on 26.9.2010.

Shesher Kabita (amr, click)
This is a Bengali poem (part of a novel) written by Rabindranath Tagore. Abridged. Recorded on 2.10.2010.

Shesh Sauptak 43 (Jaunmodin) (amr, click)
This is a Bengali poem written by Rabindranath Tagore. Abridged. Recorded on 2.10.2010.

Suchetana (amr, click)
This is a Bengali poem written by Jibanananda Das. Recorded on 24.10.2010.

Kono nirbikar chheleke (To a callous boy) (amr, click)
This is a Bengali poem written by Papri Guha. Recorded on 2.10.2010.

Aami e progotishil yuge (Myself in this progressive age) (amr, click)
This is a Bengali poem written by Papri Guha. Recorded on 3.10.2010.

Sobhyota (Civilisation) (amr, click)
This is a Bengali poem written by Papri Guha. Recorded on 24.10.2010.

Birth-Pain (in Bengali, own composition) (amr, click)

Birth-Pain (in English, own composition ) (amr, click)

["amr" files can be played by AMRplayer (download), Apple Quicktime Player (download), Realplayer (download), or Windows Media Player.]
This Page is under construction. Other recitations will appear here in the future.

Other Interests

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Places Visited

Here I'll describe the many places in various countries that I have visited, their civilisation and natural beauty, interesting anecdotes and experience, local history, art and culture. I'll include my photographs and videos; my interactions with local people and international luminaries, my understanding of human survival and aspiration. When completed, I hope to provide a unique and authentic interpretation of the philosophy of life in a collage of cultures.

Subjects of Interest (outside normal research and teaching)

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Creation of a Library

I have systematically bought many thousands of famous (including rare) books (a large portion from Cambridge's celebrated bookshops) on a very wide range of subjects such as physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, popular science, english literature, bengali literature, world literature, literary criticism, history of literature, art and painting, philosophy, history, social sciences, psychology, world mythology, cultures, world cuisine, travel, etc. etc., including own writings of international masters in various fields (e.g. A. Einstein, R. Feynman, Max Born, E Schrödinger, S. Hawking, R. Penrose, GH Hardy, JD Watson, Ludwig Prandtl, Frank Whittle, Bertrand Russell, S Freud, J Lacan, Edward de Bono, JP Sartre, K Marx, K Popper, P Samuelson, J Nehru, AJ Toynbee, etc.). The literature section includes most major writers and poets in english and other european languages and in bengali; the literary criticism section covers english and european languages with a particularly extensive collection on Shakespeare, GB Shaw, Graham Greene.

Favourite Music

Indian Songs	Modern Songs: Manna Dey, Hemanta Mukherjee, Suman Chatterjee, S.D. Burman, Shyamal Mitra, Sandhya Mukherjee, Arati Mukherjee, .... Rabindra Sangeet: Subinoy Roy, Bikram Singh, Debabrata Biswas, Kanika Banerjee, Purba Dam, Srikanta Acharya, Suman Chatterjee, Sagar Sen, Hemanta Mukherjee, Sumitra Sen, ... Nazrul Geeti: Anup Ghoshal, ...
Indian Classical	Ravi Shankar (sitar), Nikhil Banerjee (sitar), Hariprasad Chaurasia (flute), N Rajam (violin), sarod (Amzad Ali, Ali Akbar), Manna Dey (hindi semi-classical), .....
Western Songs	The massive "Transcendence" Compilation Project. Including ABBA, Carpenters, Don McLean, Perry Como, John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Tracy Chapman, Madonna, Celine Dion, John Denver, Bob Dylan, Olivia Newton John, Engelbert Humperdinck, Harry Belafonte, Julie Andrews, Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Boyzone, Ronan Keating, Chris de Burgh, Whitney Houston, Rod Stewart, Gloria Estefan, George Michael, Norah Jones, Jim Reeves, Dusty Springfield, Christina Aguilera, Spice Girls, Phil Collins, Dean Martin, Drifters, Kylie Minogue, Neil Diamond, Roger Whittaker, Amy Winehouse, Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder, James Brown.
Western Classical	Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Richard Clayderman, ......

Favourite Literature

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Favourite Paintings and Sculptures

The impressionist paintings of Claude Monet are among my top favourite paintings. I have explored in detail many famous art galleries, museums and palaces over many parts of Europe, including those in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Florence, Rome, Vatican (Sistine Chapel), Venice, Vienna, Brussels and Berlin. I was thus lucky to see many original masterpieces of Botticelli (1445-1510, Italian), Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian), Michelangelo (1475-1566, Italian), Raphael (1483-1520, Italian), Titian (1488-1576, Italian), Tintoretto (1518-1594, Italian), Caravaggio (1571-1610, Italian), Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640, Belgian), Rembrandt (1606-1669, Dutch), Vermeer (1632-1675, Dutch), Francisco Goya (1746-1828, Spanish), JMW Turner (1775-1851, British), John Constable (1776-1837, British), Édouard Manet (1832-1883, French), Edgar Degas (1834-1917, French), Paul Cézanne (1839-1906, French), Auguste Rodin (1840-1917, French sculptor), Claude Monet (1840-1926, French), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919, French), Paul Gauguin (1848-1903, French), Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch), Henri Matisse (1869-1954, French), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish), Salvador Dali (1904-1989, Spanish) ...
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A few examples of the vast body of outstanding artworks created by European artists are mentioned below. If one follows the course of paintings in the order I have presented, then one will be able to enjoy the enormity of the beauty and novelty created by these masters while appreciating the evolution of the form and concept that took place.

The 100 BC Greek sculpture	Aphrodite (Venus de Milo, Louvre, Paris)
Botticelli (Early Renaissance)	Birth of Venus
Leonardo da Vinci (High Renaissance)	Mona Lisa (Louvre, Paris), The Last Supper
Michelangelo's sculpture	David (Accademia Gallery, Florence)
Michelangelo (High Renaissance)	The paintings on the ceiling of Sistine Chapel
Raphael (High Renaissance)	The School of Athens, La Fornarina (Portrait of a Young Woman), Three Graces, Aldobrandini Madonna
Titian (High Renaissance)	Venus of Urbino Assumption of the Virgin Venus Anadyomene Diana and Actaeon Rape of Europa
Rubens (Baroque)	Massacre of the Innocents
Rembrandt (Baroque)	The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Night Watch, Bathsheba at Her Bath, Self Portrait 1669 (National Gallery London)
Vermeer	Girl with a Pearl Earring
Turner (Romanticism)	Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway The Fighting Temeraire
Manet (Realism, Impressionism)	Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Degas (Impressionism)	Dance Class, Dancers in Blue, La Toilette (Woman combing her hair)
Cézanne (Post-Impressionism)	The Card Players
Auguste Rodin's sculptures	The Thinker, The Kiss
Monet (Impressionism)	Water Lilies, Le Bassin aux Nymphéas harmonie verte (Basin to Waterlilies with green harmony) Le Pont Japonais a Giverny Impression, Sunrise Le Pont d'Argenteuil Artist's Garden at Giverny Woman with a Parasol Femmes au Jardin (Women in the Garden) Agapanthus Bain à la Grenouillère San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk
Renoir (Impressionism)	Bal du moulin de la Galette, The Swing, The Skiff (La Yole), The Ingenue, Grandes Baigneuses,
Gauguin (Symbolism, Post-Impressionism)	Tahitian Women on the Beach, Two Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms
van Gogh (Post-Impressionism)	Starry Night, Self Portraits, The Potato Eaters, Vase with Sunflowers, Wheatfield with Crows
Matisse (Impressionism, Post-Impressionism)	Blue Nude
Picasso (Cubism)	Blue Nude The Old Guitarist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Nude, Green Leaves and Bust Asleep Guernica The Weeping Woman
Dali (Surrealism)	The Persistence of Memory Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee The Three Sphinxes of Bikini

The architectural wonder and sculptural finesse demonstrated by Indian artists and artisans are also of the highest order. The paintings and sculptures in Ajanta and Illora caves, the intricate designs and beauty of various temples (e.g. Konarak, Meenakhshi, Khajuraho,...), palaces, forts and monuments are most impressive. There is of course the Taj Mahal. The delicate excellence shown by local artisans (who are often poor and who do not often get their rightful place in the history) moves me immensely. Just visit the "Puja Pandals", the temporary temples created all over Bengal to celebrate the Durgapuja (to be dismantled altogether after the four days of the puja!), to understand the magnitude and quality of the art created by the artisans.

Favourite Films

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Humour and Jokes

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Food and Cuisine

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Favourite TV

Favourite Games

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