Website of Anirban Basu Zola 2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 https://anirbanbasu.netlify.app/categories/et-cetera/atom.xml 2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 Anirban Basu https://anirbanbasu.netlify.app/et-cetera/ <p><em>Et cetera (abbreviated as etc.) is a Latin phrase meaning “and the rest” or “and other things”. It is used at the end of a list to indicate that further, similar items are implied without being specifically named. Common synonyms include "and so on," "and so forth," and "and the like".</em></p> <h2 id="my-name">My name</h2> <div style='text-align: justify'> <p> My name Anirban is a Bengali name ("অনির্বাণ", if you have Bengali fonts to see that), which means a light that shines forever. In Bengali, it sounds a bit like: aw-nee-r-baan. However, as Bengali is not a language with strict intonations, many variations of the pronunciation by non-Bengali speakers still make sense (somewhat!). In Japanese (Katakana), it is written as バス　オニバン (note that the family name is written first) and pronounced (in Romanization) ba-su o-ni-ba-n. <p>If you would like to see how my name is written but do not have the Bengali or Japanese fonts to read the names in the paragraph above, click on the links below to see them as images.</p> <ul> <li>Full name in Bengali, left-to-right reading order: <a href="/images/bengali-name.png" target="_blank">click here</a>.</li> <li>Full name in Japanese, with the family name first in the left-to-right reading order: <a href="/images/katakana-name.png" target="_blank">click here</a>.</li> </ul> </p> </div> <h2 id="profile-photos">Profile photos</h2> <ul> <li>1inch x 1.25inch @600dpi profile photo: <a href="/images/abasu-journal-600dpi.jpg">JPEG</a>.</li> <li>1inch x 1inch (aspect ratio: square) @600dpi profile photo: <a href="/images/profile-square-no-reflection.jpg">JPEG</a>.</li> </ul>