I welcome my readers and well-wishers to my first post of 2007. I hope you’ll all continue to find Kolkta Musing the perfect place to breathe fresh air as it blows from this great metropolis. I’m happy to come back in the thick of things… News’ never tire here. There are so many plots and […]
Milestone 2006
In early 1990s, when Narasimha Rao led government embarked upon liberating Indian economy from the shackles of outdated regulations, the wave did not touch the ‘shores’ of West Bengal. While other states leapfrogged in taking advantage of newfound liberal industrial climate, West Bengal stagnated and refused to come out of the age-old dogma that believed […]
CAS to rule in 2 days
Despite large ads in newspapers, not many people have so far rushed to opt for pay channels (me included). The reason is perhaps we want to actually see what it means without a set-top box. Not that it affects everybody. Those who are happy with just the daily quota of freshly baked news (like me) […]
Mamata’s fast ends
To everyone’s obvious relief Didi has ultimately called off her fast today a little after midnight. This was her 25th day of fasting, and now as she is admitted in a nursing home, all are hoping that she soon recovers. [Picture source] Predictably, political analyses have started in right earnest as to whether her fast […]
Ratan Tata on Singur
Today’s headlines scream Ratan Tata’s comments to Barkha Dutt in an NDTV interview that was partially telecast yesterday afternoon on NDTV Profit. I’ve seen that and I’ve also read what the main newspapers have to say this morning. [Picture source at right]. Opposition leaders in Bengal threaten to sue Tata for defamation for saying that […]
Kolkata of 30s
I happened to come across these pictures of this great city as it was in 1930s in this website. The images are a treasure too good to miss and I’m happy to have them here. The pictures seem to belong to MeriFiles as the respective links will show, though it’s possible they actually belong to […]
Race of wings
This X-mas, while people came out in hordes to make most of their day out, including peeping in at the scene of didi’s indefinite fast at Esplanade East if that fell on the way, a congregation for a different sort of enjoyment happened in a field off EM Bypass. It was the annual South Kolkata […]
Kolkata’s first boutique-heritage hotel
In a fitting tribute to Lady Ranu Mookherjee’s monumental contribution to Bengal art, her mansion on Ho Chi Minh Sarani is now being planned for conversion into a heritage hotel keeping its ‘original glory intact’. Lady Ranu, who is remembered for her undying passion of art, music and culture, was instrumental for founding of Academy […]
75 years of Indian Statistical Institute
In the 20s of the last century, the premier institute of higher studies in the country, Kolkata’s Presidency College saw the founding of India’s first statistical laboratory at the hands of the famous mathematician Proshanto Chandra Mahalanobis. Poet Rabindranath Tagore was a great inspiration for the unique endeavor at Presidency College, which he used to […]
20,000 homes
The largest public housing project in Kolkata, Shukhobrishti, of mind-boggling 20,000 flats is going to have foundation stone laid today (Dec 24) in New Town at the hands of Jyoti Basu. On a day when PM Manmohan Singh inaugurates rejuvenation of SAIL’s IISCO steel plant at Burnpur at a cost of Rs. 9600 crore, the […]
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