Soon a new address is going to add itself to the list of city’s banquet destinations. But it isn’t just another. For one, it floats on water, and if that seems exciting, the icing on the cake is the panoramic view it commands any which way you gaze. It’s the Floatel, or the floating hotel […]
A soaring Sensex
If Sensex’s touching 13000 today – the day of dhanteras – will be like fuel in fire, so it was yesterday in US when the bellwether Dow Jones crossed 12000 after dithering thereabout for a long while. According to experts, there are good many reasons why Sensex must soar, of which the main pointer being […]
Indian hi-tech matchmaking
Not many years back, matchmaking for marriage used to be the domain of newspapers. Who would forget the ‘patro-patri‘ columns in Anandabazar Patrika (ABP) every Sunday running into several pages? The columns are there still, but much shorter, like skeletons of former self. Marriage matchmaking in the meantime has become high-tech. An example is the […]
Goat meat ahoy
Is there a connection between what our CM says and JU’s meat-related invention? May be I’m reading too much into it, but if it is true by any stretch of imagination, it is indeed most welcome. And why not? We’re meat-loving people, but alas our appetite is constrained by consideration for good health. But first, […]
Star stuck
Last Sunday’s The Telegraph has a letter from Siliguri’s Soma Datta, which is as under: One wonders why one has to be assaulted by pictures of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt every day that the star couple is in India. Why must we have photographs of the duo with their son inside an auto-rickshaw on […]
Dreading silent diwali
This is that time of the year when the sound-control watchdogs come out in the open. Police prise open ‘suspicious-looking’ cargo, follow trails and generally keep a wary watch on all the roadside stalls that sell fireworks. The wholesale markets teem with sleuths, and some say there are incentives to earn if targeted numbers are […]
Rahul, please don’t mind
Guess who called me last evening. It was Rahul Dravid, the Team India captain. Oh, what a thrill it was to be called by him! You envy? Okay okay, it was Hutch’s trick. But Rahul Dravid it was indeed and I raptly listened to his endearing voice. Alas, I couldn’t keep his request to stay […]
Infosys, Google and Indian talent
Infosys’ robust second-quarter result yesterday has gladdened many hearts. It has even exceeded the best hopes of punters, and rightly therefore the stock is scaling new highs. I’ve been looking at the figures and what leaps out at me is Infosys’ hiring of 10,795 hands in last quarter alone, pushing its total strength to 66,150 […]
Google’s YouTube
On Sep 30, the Mahashtami day, Google arranged Wordmasters challenge in Kolkata and several other Indian cities. It was a writing contest and when I joined the flock of contestants in the morning, the excitement was palpable. One could feel it wasn’t so much for the contest per se as it was for the fact […]
Vir Sanghvi’s take on Indians
The reason I keep the Sunday edition of HT is because I do not want to miss Vir Sanghvi’s and Karan Thapar’s columns, and of course the Brunch, that great necessity for a leisurely afternoon siesta. Both Vir and Karan are succinct and mince no words, though I sometimes wonder if Vir has it in […]
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