TRAVEL TALES of ranaruby

A Journey to one of the grandest ravines on earth --- The Grand Canyon Las Vegas As our flight started its descent over Las Vegas, I was dazzled by the lights below. Lights glittered all over like a huge, sprawling net. Appeared to be laid out for the aircraft to land on it like a trapeze artist. I frankly admit that I have never seen such a myriad of lights before. Not even when our plane hovered over glittering Manhattan while on its descent at New York JFK. Our son Arjun had already fixed up a car with a rent-a-car centre. We were transported there in shuttle service available from Terminal 1 of McCarran International Airport. Arjun completed the formalities with the car company, and then we drove towards the city centre with Arjun at the wheel. After a short drive, we were at the famous Las Vegas Strip. I must admit that the Strip looks vibrant and fascinating at night, more than any other place I have seen on our planet. Like a fairy tale world. Mandalay Bay, L...

  Broadway & Vocal Jazz in America Two live events in America enthralled us: 1) Broadway show and 2) A Capella Vocal Jazz. Our son Dr Arjun Sengupta of Ohio State University gave us the first surprise by getting tickets to a Broadway show. We consider ourselves lucky that our first outing to a Broadway musical was on a Hollywood blockbuster ‘Dirty Dancing’. It was held at the Ohio State Theater, Downtown, Off High Street, Columbus. The grandeur of the theatre hall and a packed gathering were the first things that impressed us. And after that, it was just like getting carried away by the performance. In the end, it crescendoed with the lilting song of Dirty Dancing ‘I have had the time of my life…’.A thousand splendid lights synced with the song pulsated and danced, grazing the audience and sweeping up and down the enormous cavernous space in the hall showed a novel way of involving audience participation with the artistes on stage. My wife’s friend Anita Chowdhury, our host at ...

Eye, Vision , Light Eye is precious. And Vision is more precious . We must all take utmost care of both eye and vision.The main features of the eye and images of what might be seen in case of three most common eye problems we get afflicted with  are illustrated here. In a recently concluded international conference Lux Pacifica 2015 on Lighting held in Calcutta, a very interesting and revealing paper on the role of Lighting to Eye and Vision was presented by Prof. Warren Julian of Sydney University .It has evoked so much of interest in me that I thought of sharing it with you all to create awareness amongst all my readers. You will find below the excerpts from Prof. Julian's paper. Main Features of Human Eye An Idea of What might be seen VISION THROUGH CATARACT VISION THROUGH GLAUCOMA VISION FOR DIABETICS  Excerpts from Paper presented by Prof Warren Julian of the University of Sydney at Lux Pacifica 2015 held in Calcutta, November 27 to 29,2015...