Dibyendu Maji

Real Madrid has the perfect 4-1-2-3 formation that has guided them to five Champions League titles in the last 9 years. As much as it feels like it, this is not just happenstance.  Everything changed for the club after the 12-13 season of the UCL, the year that Bayern Munich won their fifth Champions League title by defeating their arch rivals BVB Dortmund. The years before that, it were the PL clubs and Real's ultimate league rival FC Barcelona who dominated the UCL more prominently. The Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich were there as well, intimidating the league by qualifying for three finals in four years. Real was led by the great Jose Mourinho that year, the same stupendous mind who had won the UCL with Porto. Real Madrid lost the semi finals to the Yellow Giants of Bundesliga, thrashed heavily by their rising star Lewandowski. However, the next season, Carlo Ancelotti stepped in as the coach of the Los Blancos and helped them go on to win the Copa Del Ray and the p...

If India were today to play a match against world's mighty Brazil, India would be more than happy to not concede more than three goals. Or perhaps five! A 2-0 loss might feel okay to do. A 1-0 might feel uplifting. A 1-0 'loss', might I! Not a 1-0 win, no: that's impossible! India is ranked 104 in a list of more than 200 football playing nations. Surely, the second most populated and one of the fastest developing countries in the world is capable of way more than that!  It is true to say Indian Football is in a mess. The team is, the management is; so is marketing, investment and political orientation. If any remedial structure isnt considered immediately, the whole system will crumble down to the ground.  Why do I say this?  The Political Instability Well, it's not unheard of that few weeks ago the Indian National Football team was nullified by FIFA, even temporarily so. This was done because (esteemed) FIFA found political disability within the governi...

Introduction Dr. Harunori N. Yoshikawa, Institute de Physique de Nice, France, came to our university (Jadavpur University) on the 21st of September, 2022 to enlighten on Particle laden flows. The workshop was hosted jointly by Dr. Yoshikawa and Prof. Dr. Ranjan Ganguly, Dept. of Power Engineering, Jadavpur University and the eminent aim was to establish the roots that provided towards building up the WEAPS technology. Almost every member: students, scholars and  respected members otherwise closely associated with AMRA Lab (Advanced Materials, Research and Applications Lab), JU SL were invited and present throughout the 11am-5pm workshop. The workshop was jointly sponsored by SERB (CRG/2019/005887) and IEA-CNRS, France.  The First Session  At around 11 am, Dr. Yoshikawa took the stage and illuminated on the theories and conceptual analysis of particle laden flows which was done wisely. After the hour long lecture and a short break, Prof. Dr. RG enlightened on ...