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Ashok Dalwai's Book 'Pickling In A Residential School': A Reminder of Everyone's Schooldays

Bengaluru: Ashok Mahadev Dalwai's nostalgic book, 'Pickling In A Residential School', with the shoulder heading 'Joys of Being At Home Away From Home', makes an interesting read by multiple parameters, apart from taking the reader to one's good old world of unforgettable childhood memories worth cherishing, enjoying and recollecting. The mind is more powerful than a computer's memory: In the early 1980s, when computers entered the Indian biosphere, enough noise was generated, and more so by vocal trade unions, who termed the new entrants detrimental to the human workforce, stripping all the jobs possible. Interestingly, the versions of computers have changed swiftly over time, paving the way for them to become an inevitable part of everyone's life, by and large. However, the much-haunted blame game of the computer taking over the human brain also proved to be a futile exercise. You may wonder what the connection is with this book. The only idea to recol...