Yesterday, as the ruling party cadres enforced bandh on the street, I stayed put at home, destined to watch occasional passers-by hurrying along, braving the heavy downpour. Later in the day when the rains stopped for a while, a small cacophony coming from outside caught my ears. I came to my 3rd floor balcony and […]
Airport to be jumbo-ready by next year
It’s good that A380 has happened long before the closing of bid documents for the modernization of Kolkata airport. The time was sufficient for the mandarins to accordingly redo the plan. [Image courtesy TT] As things now stand, the airport is likely to see noticeable uplift in facilities, much of which has got to do […]
Worth of a Kolkattan’s life
For the benefit of my readers who do not know Bengali and who do not know how nightmarish the Kolkata roads are, the above script on the back of a nondescript city private bus reads: This year let’s not race against one another. The thought is noble, but is the picture real? I copied it […]
No one is safe on Kolkata roads
You may argue you travel in a luxury sedan, air-conditioned, chauffeur driven, tinted glass, with less to bother what goes on outside. How can you feel unsafe on the city roads? True, you’re safe by say 75%, putting the figure arbitrarily. But suppose your car is hit by a bus whose brakes fail, or hit […]
Big Bazaar is closer than you think
Look at the picture on the left taken from today’s TT. If the dress the man wears seems familiar, so it is, never mind he is standing waist-deep in water. Well, it happened yesterday in Bangur, the perennial water-logging destination that never escapes the fury of a downpour. As you can rightly guess, living in […]
Ultadanga, the rivulet
Water, water everywhere, no place to stand without getting wet. This in short what Ultadanga has looked like at least till this afternoon. The watery deluge took the city by surprise last weekend, and the onslaught continued up to Monday last. It was respite yesterday, and today the Sun shone. But at Ultadanga, as in […]
Life at Sonagachi
Sonagachi can arguably claim the title of the biggest red-light area in Asia. It is also where the sex workers are the best educated to look after their own wellbeing. As this AFPTV video shows, sex workers in Sonagachi are fighting for better work conditions, access to health care, and a pension. There are many […]
Changing skyline = More chaos on road
Who will change Kolkata’s skyline? For sure it’ll not be the doing of one or 2 entities. But if there’s one company that will corner the lion’s share of the glory, it must be the DLF India. In today’s TT, the sum of money flaunted as DLF’s proposed investment in and around the city for […]
Nasscom for Kolkata
Nasscom, the fatherly body for everything IT and ITES in India, that was once headed by Dewang Mehta for 10 years during the 90s, has opened its footprint in the city on Sep 7. This is the parent body’s first regional office in Kolkata. In the early 90s when the country first started the present […]
Driving in city
This is an excellent video of road traffic in an Indian city. I don’t know which one, but Kolkata’s traffic strongly resembles the chaos shown here.
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