Excuse me if I feel jealous, but it does pay to be better halves of wealthy industrialists. I’m not sure if the term ‘better half’ applies to the female human specie only. I hope it doesn’t, for frankly I won’t mind playing the second fiddle to my wealthy woman if it were so. Unfortunately for […]
Cricketainment
A genre of sport, few months old, captures the headlines for several days in a row. Enter cricketainment, the newest avatar of T-20 cricket, packaged so sleek that it has managed to make the Eden full-house on a day when the mercury nearly touched 40 degrees. Thanks must go to the Bollywood badshah Shah Rukh […]
IMAX in Kolkata
My first IMAX experience was nearly a decade back I saw a short film on wild life at Serengeti National Park in Tanzania at the Science City facility. I literally clutched onto my seat as the animals ‘almost’ rushed into us from the screen. The sound was exceptional as the roars of the lions seemed […]
PE funds queuing up for realty pie
Image source The realty expo now underway at the Science City Grounds is billed as the largest in east India. It was inaugurated by the Chief Minister 2 days back, and according to the organizers, the expo may see footfalls exceeding 40,000 over the 5 days. The newspapers have brought out sponsored pullouts coinciding with […]
Why RelPower Is Issuing Bonus?
Biting dust is not a sweet experience. Especially so when it concerns none other than the ADAG Group of Anil Ambani. He is one of the richest persons in the world, and only he can be the right claimant to the audacious quote he made in ET: “Jab haathi ki sawaari nikalti hai to kutte […]
Why Jindals need deep sea port?
The JSW Group of Sajjan Jindal is building an integrated steel plant at Salboni in West Midnapore district. It will have capacity to make 10 million tons of steel when completed. The total investment will come to about Rs.15000 crore. PM Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone of the plant early next month. [Image […]
The power of R-Power
My friend Srini, an avowed stock market enthusiast, is downcast for the past couple of days. He rang up today morning sounding somber, and wondering how long the downslide will continue. It didn’t need much prodding to make him forecast ominous days ahead for the Indian stock market. “17000 is where the Sensex is headed,” […]
Singur is cleared by HC
On Jan 10 when the Nano was being unveiled at Pragati Maidan, the opposition MLA of Singur ridiculed the name of the people’s car, and said it’d be so tiny that it’d remain invisible even through a telescope. He further said that the name itself suggests that there’ll be no car manufactured from Singur plant. […]
Microfinance your way to online profit
Looking for decent profits for your money online? Try microfinance. Before elaborating further let me take you to my post, Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank that dealt on how the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Prof Yunus and Grameen Bank for their path-breaking service to help the poor and needy of Bangladesh through […]
The why and how of Nandigram
The situation at Nandigram is complex and quite difficult for an outsider to make any sense of. The use of force by the cadres of ruling party to evict the opposition was a big operation in scale and brutal. But the fact is that the tone and tenor of this action is not anything new […]
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