May 16, 2023
42 Rites of Passage
42. What’s in a number? Well, 42 happens to be the answer to life, the universe, and everything, as Douglas Adams proclaimed in his novel “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”. Coincidentally, the eponymous TV series debuted in 1981, the year I graduated from IIT Madras (BTech, Mech). I concur with Adams, because...