Corona Crisis Chronicles: Three Cs in a Row

By Rejwan Ali

No one likes C in one’s academic transcripts even for a single instance. So consecutive Cs can really be stumbling
and shattering for one’s academic trajectory. However, contrast to campus test performances, in practical
world settings and in fact in most cases persons with Cs excel over than persons with As in terms of real tasks
and deliverances. So people with wisdom often raise caution against such segregation of letter grade to project future
of immensely hidden potentials or overhyped expectations. Themed in that this thin book is intended to revive
English readership in Bangladesh through some personal memoirs/satire. Bangladesh, a poor country plagued with
natural disaster and a big population without much historical perception for British colonial heritages. Inefficient
national politics and policies, over usage of local languages/dialects in cultural growth have resulted in blind alleys
for degenerated academia, art, culture, and literature. Based on thirteen FaceBook postings during the Corona
world pandemic, the memoirs/satire can serve as a person’s flashback of that society after living in a cosmopolitan
cultural melting point and multi-cultural environment of New York City. It is expected that the book will appeal
to local readers in subcontinents and also to second-generation English-speaking population of Bangladesh origins,
in places like New York, London, Sydney, Toronto, Boston, Los Angels, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and
other places aside from interested mainstream readers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 20, 2020
• ISBN: 9781665503716

Rejwan Ali

Rejwan Ali lives in New York City with his wife Sayma and daughter Rinik in Oakland Gardens at the border of Queens borough and Nassau county of Long Island. Born in Rajshahi, a city in the northwestern part of Bangladesh where Padma (Ganges) flows, Rejwan grew up in a highly politically polarized society in post-liberation Bangladesh. Witnessing periods of military rules with intermittent chaotic democracy and autocracy, Rejwan spent all his years in Rajshahi before moving to the USA in the spring of 2001. After living in Kansas, Texas, and North Carolina, Rejwan moved to New York City in the fall of 2008. An educator and scientist by profession, Rejwan takes creative writing as a hobby. Although previously he contributed to Op- Ed column of campus newspaper or in blogs of scientific organization, Corona Crisis Chronicles—Three Cs in a Row is his first book that he would like to dedicate to current and future young generations of Bangladeshis living across the globe and developing literature, arts and also to those in culturally diversified groups who have taken English as their medium of communication to reach common people. Rejwan feels that promotion of the English language readership in Southeast Asia can promote better understanding among countries and nations and will open up more opportunities for common people. In the future, Rejwan hopes to continue devoting his time to write for people besides writing scientific articles for his profession in research and teaching based career.

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CORONA

CRISIS

CHRONICLES

Three Cs in a Row

REJWAN ALI

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ISBN: 978-1-6655-0372-3 (sc)

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Published by AuthorHouse 10/19/2020

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Languages and Homeopathy

Curfews and New York City

Zulfi Is My Friend and the US Constitution

Corona Social Culture: Science Classes, Gun Control

Reopening of New York City and the Sweet Mid-West

Rearview Mirror and Lane Changing

My Way Is the Highway and Refugee Routes, Roundabouts . . .

Science Fair and PowerPoint Science

EXIT # 10 GIGO Science and UNC Nobel Laureates

Nepotism, Academic Career, Human Fallacy

Bill Gates and Scientists

August 14 and 15

Author’s note:

*I was planning to pull curtain after ten writings for this title. However, additional three just came in that stream that I could not help but to add on!

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EPISODE # 1

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

M y dad, who is now in his eighties, had three master’s degrees during the Pakistan Era, Dacca University (Supervisor: Bose Professor Abdul Matin Chowdhury), American University of Beirut (Lebanon), and University of New South Wales (Australia) but never could win a PhD. For obvious reasons he used to despise PhDs. His persistent logic has been PhD makes people arrogant and often takes away the bare minimum capacity to think/talk scientifically/rationally. The PhDs have lost the capacity to listen to other people’s views. When in a room, you have too many of them it’s total chaos! Interestingly in Rajshahi University (RU) campus lot of PhD-less people used to have similar views as they used to call PhDs PiazDee that means discussion over onions . . . shading off tears over nonsense . . . leading nowhere.

Sometimes you can call it hunting deer (Dr) so that you can have fiesta—not a vegetarian peaceful option as most good things can be done in more peaceful and harmonious ways. So what could be the definition of PhDs? Some says Permanent Head Damages. Well, there is some truth there as we all agree . . . But then, why does that happen? What are the possible causes/reasons behind? I guess the answer could be Painful Hopeless Days. People spending six years plus time in that process can develop lot of bad symptoms. In contrast, smart/lucky people with shortened period in that process can call it Perfect Happy Days . . . Interestingly, both processes turn out to give people common shape Talk More, Listen Less . . . Maybe in Feynman’s great words: What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Journals of New York City, May 31, 2020

Oakland Gardens, New York

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EPISODE # 2

Artificial Intelligence,

Machine Languages and Homeopathy

S o here goes the story. A friend of mine from post-doc days, after a few years of no-communication, shoot me an e-mail that he would be coming to New York City for a conference. He was then in the US West Coast area doing research in an academic/industry institution in a senior capacity. After couple of emails, we talked over the phone and he mentioned the paper he would present was on the topics of big data analysis, machine languages, and artificial