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A few days ago I came across a website enlisting a number of professions which have disappeared from the face of the earth primarily due to technological advancement. Then I came across the news of the screening of a documentary Water Wala at our university which is again about an almost extinct profession. A brief job-description: The waterwalas are human water carriers who carry water in sacks…

What Is The Origin Of (189)?…

Dot and carry one

Here’s a rather obscure expression which I first came across as a boy when I was engrossed in Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale of derring-do that is Treasure Island, published in 1883. In Part Four the Doctor regales us with his narrative of events at the stockade, jolly exciting they were too, and he reports “I was not new to violent death…but I know my pulse went dot and carry…