Construction is about to begin in full swing at the Emaar-MGF 6.24-acre property beside Silver Springs complex on EM Bypass. Talks have it that there will be 2 hotels in that land – a 300-room JW Marriott and a 250-room Holiday Inn. [Picture on the left that of Marriott Hotel on Orchard Road, Singapore; Image […]
Book fair checkmated
In an impromptu talkathon organized by Star Ananda last evening and telecast in that channel, sparks flew over the righteousness of High Court’s decision to cancel this year’s Book Fair at the Park Circus Maidan. It was amusing to see that the same court that only last week was hailed for rejecting petitions challenging the […]
Indians’ bulgy pockets
In Kolkata there are coin suppliers in every market. Early morning when the markets open, these people make rounds of fish, vegetable and fruit stalls and sell coins at a margin. Often they will supply coins worth Rs.50 and charge 4% as commission, that increases at times when the supply ‘dries up’ for reasons such […]
Kolkata’s largest mall
The full back-page ad in mainline papers today says it is the largest shopping mall of India. A small asterisk next to the announcement leads you to the bottom corner to the collection of 3 words, ‘In Eastern India’. You may dislike my piquing over small things, but such is the imperatives of the day […]
Burrabazar overshadows Brigade
Schematic of how fire started at Burrabazar on Saturday early morning [Image source] Not in the living memory had such a thing happened. The said-to-be biggest CPM rally in the Brigade Parade Ground suffered negligible media coverage in yesterday’s TV channels and in today’s papers. It was completely overshadowed by the eye-catching event at Burrabazar […]
Beware of the city of sorrow
Sometime back I traveled to Howrah Station through BBD Bag on a Sunday. The winter was kind that day. The day was brightly sunlit and colder than the usual gentle stuff you find in Kolkata. Since it was a Sunday, the roads had little traffic, and even less people. As I raced in the car […]
City Centre, Kolkata
Among the places receiving record footfalls on the year-end days just gone by was the Salt Lake’s premier shopping-cum-pleasure destination, City Centre. A place for pleasure and enjoyment, the City Centre presents itself in a way that permeates an adda-like time-passing, if shopping is not the option. City Centre has in fact turned out as […]
Moral policing? No need.
The Kolkata of 50s and much of 60s had cabaret dancers holding the center-stage in renowned restaurants and hotels in the evenings till wee hours. Industrialists, patrons of various hues, and those who had money to spare would throng the venues to enjoy and let enjoy their dues. Liquor flowed like water in the Hooghly. […]
Bypass to extend till Baruipur
Next month on a Sunday the residents’ association to which I belong is planning a picnic to a Baruipur baganbari (cottage with large garden). Not everyone is enthusiastic since many feel the road to the place is extremely bad. Someone did a recce early this month, and the opinion that emerged was not promising. The […]
The hospital zone
First it was Peerless Hospital that came up at the southern extreme of the EM Bypass when there was no road bridge over the railway tracks near the Baghajatin station. Then came the Ruby Hospital at a more agreeable location, at the point where the Rashbehari connector meets the Bypass. Few years down the line, […]
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