It’s time for Booksellers’ & Publishers’ Guild (‘Guild’ for short) to say goodbye to Maidan for all time to come. They cannot hold book fair in Maidan any more. The Kolkata HC yesterday handed out a landmark judgment to save Maidan from the damage caused on account of book fair. That the Guild is on […]
Saving Maidan
Today is going to be an important day in Kolkata’s history. In a few hours from now, the HC will decide whether the book fair can be allowed to take place at Maidan. Horns are locked over the issue between nature-lovers and the government. In an earlier post (see Some people’s concern = Others’ misery), […]
Rush to New Town
Kolkata’s east is the new destination all are scrambling to get into. Not without reason. City’s east has been expanding at a fast pace, and it’s not just New Town at Rajarhat. The entire belt to the east of EM Bypass too is seeing a spree in expansion. However, if you’ve seen how Gurgaon, Navi […]
Some people’s concern = Others’ misery
What is the meeting point between government’s (and indeed some intellectuals’) forcing the book fair in Maidan and animal rights activists’ insisting that no harm must come to stray dogs on the street? The answer is that some people want to ride roughshod over the wishes and convenience of a silent majority. Take book fair […]
Is it Boeing?
This is one investment story that refuses to die down. Thankfully so for Bengal, for it’s about a project which just there cannot be many. It’s not a steel plant of which there is no dearth in India, especially in the east. Nor is it a IT project of which too there is no shortage […]
Bengal Chemicals on comeback trail
What is common to Pheneol, Cantharidine Hair Oil, Kalmegh and Aqua Ptychotis? They are all products once made by Bengal Chemicals. Or would you say they’re brands owned by Bengal Chemicals? Brands, did you say? Yeah, they’re brands, but unbranded brands. The what? Well, the point is Bengal Chemicals never branded them the way branding […]
Wal-Mart and the rest
Even a couple of years back, terms like SKU (aka Stock Keeping Unit) and hypermart were largely unknown to common people. Today – if not SKU as yet – hypermart and supermarket are no longer some Latin or Greek lexicon to us. They are flowering here, there, everywhere. Admittedly, the concept of supermarket is not […]
Flying cheapest
Rome and back is just Rs.15,000 (plus tax) and to London and back via Dubai is Rs.18,500 before tax. Traveling to Europe is perhaps never so cheaper. What takes? The reason is that several airlines have now started operating from Kolkata, and so the capacity increase has caused the fares to nosedive. The Rome trip […]
New ports in the wings
When industry rushes in, facilities improve in tandem. This is a truth that is now proving true in industry-starved Bengal. Even a few years back, upgrading and/or setting up infrastructure in the state would have found few takers. Bengal was then not considered a destination for putting money. Now there is clearly an upswing in […]
Tatas plan more
The Tata group is coming with bagful of projects for Bengal. Among those already here are TCS’ (Tata Consultancy Services Ltd) sizeable presence in Sector V in Salt Lake and Tata Metaliks’ plant near Kharagpur. Tata Motors’ small-car factory, proposed in Singur, will be Tata’s largest project thus far in the state in terms of […]
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