Anirban’s Angle
Anirban DasGupta shares his memories of Shanti Gupta, a “quiet scholar, architect, and shepherd”:
Shanti Gupta devoted 40 years of his life to the foundation and nurturing of the statistics department at Purdue University, USA. He was a selfless soldier of the profession, an effective and yet gentle fighter. He…
Armchair expert Anirban DasGupta has been thinking about political predictions in the US midterm elections. He writes:
With the midterm elections in the US just around the corner and the next general election not too far away, political analysts and also common people are thinking about which factors influence the…
It is more than four years since two of Anirban DasGupta’s close colleagues, Jayanta Ghosh and Herman Rubin, passed away. He knew both well, beyond the level of being “just” colleagues, and he shares a few cherished personal memories that we hope will be of interest to readers:
Jayanta Ghosh…
Anirban DasGupta has So. Many. Questions. He invites your answers: send your thoughts and comments (and maybe more questions!) to bulletin@imstat.org or leave a comment below.
Like a slightly impetuous, though scrupulous, young man of the teenage revolutionary kind, I am listing today an abundance of questions that more or…
Anirban DasGupta writes:
Sreekumar Nambiar and I graduated the same year from the ISI in Calcutta. A few months ago, as we were shooting the breeze, Sreekumar asked if tea is more of a common man’s drink than coffee. I didn’t know. But it reignited in me that folklore that…