The time is upon us when many people cannot imagine life without the Internet. I’m not talking about the gen-next who are anyway hooked onto their online lives come sun or rain. But a majority of the older populace have embraced the net because of one big motivation, which is the ability to earn money. […]
Goodbye to double deckers
Since when the double-decker buses plied in the city? The Statesman informs us that the British brought them to Kolkata way back in 1926. 83 years have passed since. Many Kolkattans will have nostalgic memories about riding in these buses. And now the double-deckers can be seen on city roads for 2 more days in […]
Metro to encircle Kolkata
A decade or 2 from today, Kolkata may become a city where commuters may depend less on errant road transport system like one now finds. Metro may have started in Kolkata in 1984, but its route never extended beyond Dum Dum in the north, and Tollygunge to the south. This is about to change when […]
Bracing up for another non-compliance
Compliance with orderly living is a rarity in today’s Bengal, and the city of Kolkata is no exception. This coming Friday, 31st July, is the last day for commercial vehicles in the city to go green. This is an order from the Calcutta High Court that seeks to save millions in the city from poisonous […]
Howrah Station awaiting world-class care
Bridging Kolkata & Howrah – the 3 prides! [Image source] There are many expletives that can be hurled at Kolkata for its abysmal failure to protect human lives on the road, and for permitting the most lawless road transport that one could think of. But notwithstanding the pervading gloom that descends after every road accident […]
Bounty for Bengal
Not since the underground Metro did Bengal stand to receive so much from the Indian Railway. It’s stupendous by any standard, and what is a surprise is that not many from outside Bengal are wagging a finger at this shower of ‘gifts’ on Bengal. Nitpickers may argue where from so much money will come, the […]
Kolkata’s another first
If you keep aside the apparently suicidal trend to skirt industry to the state, Kolkata has many things ‘first’ to boast of. I’m not saying the many developments during the Raj era that started in the city. In relatively modern times Kolkata has had the first underground metro in India. To that somewhat worn-out feather […]
Singur’s blessings
Yesterday was a ‘small’ high point in the ongoing agitation at Singur. Personalities from the world of art and culture like Aparna Sen, Saoli Mitra, and others paid a visit to the site and spoke to various people. Late in the night there was a talk on the TV channel, Star Ananda, where Aparna and […]
Our lives in their hands
Sometime back a co-passenger in the Metro coming from Hyderabad was narrating his surprise when he found there were no 3-wheeler autos at the filling stations. [Picture courtesy, TT] His surprise was justified because after all many city roads are clogged with them, which meant that there must be many thousands that plied on the […]
The rains
The monsoon just arrived but already it wreaked havoc. The rains took a heavy toll last week as it lashed with tremendous ferocity across the state, and battered the normalcy of life out of shape. Unsuspecting people who thought the deluge was temporary and would soon stop paid price loosing their dear belongings, and even […]
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