Close to our rented flat in South Kolkata’s Dhakuria, when Purna Das Baul came to build his house, there wasn’t much excitement in the air that would be suggestive of his fame. It was sometime in early 70s if memory serves me right. I used to pass by his house on way to school, and […]
Kolkata’s vanishing green
According to a survey by the Delhi-based NIES (National Institute of Environment Studies), Kolkata is the least green among major cities. Here is a sample statistic: Bangalore: 8.60 per cent, National Capital Region (New Delhi): 8.49 per cent, Greater Mumbai: 6.20 per cent, Chennai: 7.50 per cent…And the corresponding figure for Calcutta is a paltry […]
India’s cord blood banking
According to a report in today’s ABP (Anandabazar Patrika), cord blood banking is slowly emerging as an attractive bait to beat the attrition rate in talent-starved corporate world. Now, what is cord blood banking, you might ask. Cord blood banking is the technique of isolating and preserving stem cells at cryogenic temperature after collection from […]
Have you socialized today?
Youngsters who are hooked onto one or more ‘social’ sites will tell you chatting is passé, socializing is in. In India, going by reports, Orkut rules the roost, and since it is by ‘invitation’ only, there’s all the more scramble for it. Suppose you ask them if they know who Orkut Buyukkokten is. Chance is […]
Updating Singur
There appears a certain plan that goes in West Bengal government’s efforts in making Singur THE destination as an auto-hub. It’s like a thriller, unfolding as it does with the trail getting hotter and hotter until it reaches the climax. It’s difficult not to praise the way the government is handling it, what with opposition’s […]
Out of sync
I’ve been looking at Dr Kandathil K Jacob’s article, Why India can be global knowledge economy leader. Dr.Jacob’s resume is impressive, he is a IIT-Bombay Mechanical Engineering graduate and a UCB (University of California, Berkeley) MBA and currently works in San Francisco based company. His article is built well around facts and figures, resulting as […]
Pleasure of not working
One who works is not extolled, complains the gatekeeper of our complex. The disease he refers to obliquely is pretty widespread, so his allegation fails to raise our collective eyebrows. It will rather be surprising if instead we find everything in order. There is an old saying that Bengalis love addas neglecting work, and there […]
As I write
As I write this piece, the din around me is palpable. My teenage son, sitting beside, is glued to the other computer, busy playing an aim-and-shoot game. Typical to his age, he likes cacophony, so the strange western sound from the game notwithstanding, he is also running a series of Hindi film songs aided by […]
Vir versus Karan
Vir and Karan – readers’ delight![Picture source: left, right]Even journalists from same paper may differ. But that speaks volumes about the quality of the newspaper, which is the HT in this case. I keep Sunday HT because I like to read the columns by Vir Sanghvi and Karan Thapar. And today they lock horns over […]
Loan that devours
There are many dangerous pitfalls behind the luster of attractive home loans. If you’re a loan-taker and haven’t known the traps, now is the time to wake up. Sample the following story from The Telegraph (excerpt): Two years ago, Arun D’Souza took a Rs 18.45 lakh home loan at a floating rate of 7.25 per […]
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