With TV channels beaming it live round the clock and newspaper columns capped by screaming headlines, the jury is still out as to whether Mamata’s struggle at Singur is after all a regressive step. There is reason to feel skeptical. If you, the reader of this post, are in Bengal, you’ll no doubt experience the […]
Rosedale and Riverside
Who would guess the alphabet ‘R’ would be the one to have 2 of the most beautiful housing projects named in Kolkata! You might say, isn’t ‘U’ too popular, what with Bengal Ambuja’s Survey Park project on EM Bypass – the first large-format complex to start in the city – all starting with that alphabet? […]
Vandalism on display
If Thursday’s rampage in the Assembly House has no precedent, the Speaker’s decision to throw the house open for public to view it is also unparalleled. According to reports, over 35,000 people turned up on Friday – a bandh day – not to miss that rare entry inside the hallowed precincts of the Assembly House […]
B Com in Kolkata, job in Australia
Kolkata is soon going to add another feather to its cap of career options. The India Australia Institute of Management or IAIM has plans to set up a center of excellence, which will begin classes as early as from Feb next. The institute will initially offer bachelors degree in commerce and business management, to be […]
SHAME
Even without taking shelter under any political tutelage, it can be safely said that what happened yesterday at West Bengal Assembly is nothing less than SHAME. If not the rampage, it’s the audacity that such things can indeed happen that takes one’s breadth away. It’s easy to coin words like ‘attack on democracy’, but if […]
Bhojohari Manna in London
Nov 16 last, Bhojohari Manna descended on the terrace of Star Theater – courtesy Arijit Dutta of Priya Entertainment – in what was the first Bengali full-course lunch during the Kolkata Film Festival. Those lucky ones like me who have partaken Bhojohari Manna’s fares in one of their restaurants would vouch for its all-too-Bengali tasty […]
Onrush of retailing
Close to where I stay, on the eastern side of EM Bypass near Mukundapur, a big construction is going on occupying several acres. The signpost – or signboard if you prefer – at the site declares that it is for the German retail giant, Metro Cash & Carry. The frenetic activity matches with almost ceaseless […]
Pleasure of defacing wall
If you want to have pleasure at others’ cost, yet enjoy full protection of law then Kolkata must be your destination. For, perhaps in no large city will you find hawkers being legally allotted space on pavements of busy roads to sell their wares. Neither perhaps you’ll see political parties enjoying full freedom to deface […]
Net-savvy Kolkattans
Guess which city has one of the fastest growing broadband markets in India? Or, which India metropolis ranks among top 3 in terms of number of Internet users in the country? The answer to both is Kolkata. And Kolkata it is, which has among the highest Internet connectivity in home segment in India. These and […]
Kolkata’s illegalities
Friday last, a PIL (public interest litigation) has been file in the city’s High Court to seek directive to demolish illegal buildings in Kolkata. The PIL is presumably as a result of ghastly fire in an unauthorized building in the congested Topsia area, that apparently housed a leather factory. Going by newspaper reports, several rules […]