i do make it a point to come across your posts when i infrequently drift in to this forum, along with a few of the other oldtimers' posts, but all in all, i've grown dangerously lackadaisical to the whole issue - forgive me for that!
i think you just struck a chord when you mentioned our old exchanges: periods of intellectual stimulations that were still fruitless from an immigration standpoint, and we did incur the wrath and ire of the more practical populace on these boards. are you hinting sankrityayan as the guy who disappeared? if so, i haven't heard from him either.
hope you'll stick around on these forums even through your life-on-a-plastic days, although i don't know how, or even why. when the journey is done and the destination reached, the fun of travel is both realized and stale. i'm a bit scared thinking of that complacency knowing fully well that that spot for myself gets uncomfortably closer each passing day.