When I cancelled the U S trip scheduled for a fornight and got ready for my second visit to Adelaide in November 2019,I was mentally prepared for a long stay and return ticket was booked for May.The intervention of the semi virus which paralysed the economic activity world wide did upset all the plans and the rescue efforts made in March or April were too late and my grandson was glad that the black old man would be a part of his Birthday celebration in mid June..
Change of weather and pleasant autumn and winter did have an unsetling effect and it was a new experience for me.For the first time I felt that I was no longer young and that old age was just catching up and hence I should be ready to accept the reality without being trapped into any anxiety or fear..A lot of poems were written, many movies mostly Malayalam ones were seen and forgotten and Tamil books merited more attention and Norwood Library gave some solace...
But in the unconscious mind the longing to see the house and carass the books in my home town was always there..Most importantly my critical inability to convert my handwritten notes into the machine and later into the net had haunted my mind and this acdemic uneasiness seven years after my retirement was perplexing.was it because of 6 August, 2020?
World is not waiting for me to write. but I know that God has given additional bonus time for a purpose and he will question me when my time or turn comes...This self imposed or self inflicted objective instilled a fresh wind and with the new found enthusiasm took break from face book and contemplated on the task to be completed .The best way to celebrate the 50 years of Academic madness and goalless life led thus far ,was to restart the engine and resume the romance with the dollar and in just 2 hours I wrote without much supportive notes..Later oneday unable to sleep after 3 43 started writing down a small list of the works which need to be completed if God wills..
Having lived with books and also cultivated the habit of writing in note books and now getting used to typing with two fingers, I felt that the residual time must be invested in a manner which will ensure good health and a sense of well being no matter what's going to be its academic spillover.To get out of the depression I recalled the face of one scholar in Loyola College who showed all the paper cuttings of my articles in Business Line..
I am a solitary reaper.Despite my best attempts to rope in partners I could not get positive response as I was an illiterate in quantitative techniques and other tricks...I must hasten to add that there are still a few of my students not direct ones who are in top positions and also in limelight who do bother me and discuss sometimes on exchange rate economics...
My professor Sasankan from Manacud Trivandrum used to say that Economics is nothing but common sense made difficult by professors in the classroom..
I am not updated now.I can't read more .But a few of my students regularly goad me by sending the links and also putting questions.
I am giving auto suggestions to myself that dsambandhan is only @ 50 and that 70 is just a number which denotes age for record.post retirement was academically fruitful.
Thanks to my student friends who are now professors and my guardian Dr B Kamaiah I had the privilege of being a part of Economics conclaves in Pune Gokhale Institute,2014 and Hyderabad central university,2015 and also be a part of demonetization debate along with C P Chandrasekhar in Kerala University ,2016/17.
With my soulmate saying goodbye in 2017 and spending my time in South Australia in 2017end and 2018 beginning and 2019 end and almost major partof 2020special year I am trying to read and type every day from August ...
The woods are dark and deep and the weather is benign and before the commercial flight starts I want to settle down and be ready for mytake off in the Academic sky.. Economics is only one side and there are many things to see and do and enjoy every moment of life...My celebration of life has begun at 50 and I am grateful to the supreme for having given me the excellent teachers and affectionate but demanding students...kural says that it's easy to say but accomplishment , translating the goals into reality is very difficult....Let us move along with the current and navigate without much expectation and anxiety.we can only do what's destined and also what we are capable of...Yes. .. remaining in the battlefield matters most than winning the war...for we will not die while we are alive... That's is what I am aiming at.Thank you my friends.
The list reads like this
Books
From Marx to Market and Other Essays on Manmohanamics
What's Happening to world Money?
A few episodes in the U S dollar's journey as a world money.
Making Sense of the Currency crisis of 1990s
Essays in International Finance from Business Line
A Silent Soliloquy on campus politics:
The wild Tigers can't be caged
Understanding Globalisation and Towards An Alternative Globalisation:
Slim monographs:
A random reading of Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844:
My MPhil Essay
Insulation of a stable economy from exogenous economic disturbances:
An examination of Laursen - Metzler - Sohmen effect.
My phD seminar paper at Gokhale Institute of politics and economics.
On Social Cost of flattery and psychopancy in Assembly corridors and academic institutions:
With a sympathetic commentary on it by Professor Lenin Thangappa.
Prof John F Kyle's PhD thesis: Balance Of Payments in a monetary economy: A Review
The entry and purpose of Devaluation in a Developing Economy, as a Keynesian Medicine
When will Devaluation Work?
A Rudimentary analysis of Purchasing Power Parity Theory: An Incomplete Review
Professor Paul Samuelson' s correction of David Humes ' Price Speice Flow Mechanism:
A Note Of Dissent.
On Pitfalls in the Art Of Macroeconomic Model Building for Open Economy:
Revisiting Sidney Alexander and Fritz Maclup Debate.
The Much Forgotten Monetary Approch To Balance of payments Theory: How did I waste a Few Months in my Fellowship days as Harry G Johnson did in his final days of life?
What Makes the Exchange Rate To Move?:
A Few Rough Explanations
How does Exchange Rate enter Into An Open Economy Framework:An exercise in Extending professor Yeager's Example.
What did I learn from the New Revelations of Paul Krugman on Exchange Rate Economics?
Does Exchange Rate work?
Living with Disequilibrium Exchange Rates:
A Fact Of Reality!
The Nexus Between Exchange Rate and Interest Rate:
The Famous International Fischer Effect.
The Theoretical Significance and Empirical Relevance of Dornbuch's Overshooting Model
China Plays Mischief with Exchange Rate:
A Lesson For Emerging Markets.
A Letter to My Thesis Supervisor:
Reflecting in Tranquility on Pune days and also my acdemic life.
Adelaide Diary 2017/2018
Adelaide Diary 2019/2020
Kamam Tender than Flower
And Stronger than Liquor:
Translating kural
Time Flies and The Rest is Lies
A collection of poems
As The Numbers Loved her
I loved my only girl friend:
I Missed You!
A collection of poems.
Translating Poet Bharathi and others :
I listened to my Instincts
prabanchan's short Story in Kalki
Translation
Short Story in Ananda Vikatan by
Chokkan: Translation
Letters written to my Daughters and not posted
My Dateless Diary in Tamil and English:
Emotive Feelings ventilated for Relief
Modi as Brand Marketed well by Vested Interests
A Structural Retrogression in Indian politics?
Revisiting Keynes, Marx and C N Annadurai
On Empty Economic Spaces
Corana Deepens Inequality.
The list is not complete.... it's in the hands of supreme to goad me gently and also swiftly towards purposeful life of Academic work which will ensure good health and emotional equilibrium
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