If ever you come to a place you’ve never been to, and you hear the names of localities that end with words like pur, para, gunj, ghata, palli, bazaar, nagar, or danga, you can rest assured that you’re in the city of Kolkata. Each of these words in Bengali means places where people have come […]
Air India Express
Air India’s Boeing 747-400 – erstwhile Maharaja!Photo by Adrian Pingstone, May 2004 [source]. It’s the time of low-cost airlines. After clogging the domestic routes in the country, the tide is gradually turning in international sector too. And no one is complaining. Next month Air India Express (or AIE), the low-cost offering from Air India, will […]
Utilities people shun
No one can blame the authorities for not providing utilities for public use. They have planned them, spent taxpayers’ money to build them, but now they are as under-utilized as if their coming up do not make any difference at all to the people. Yesterday, The Telegraph in its Sunday edition presented 7 least utilized […]
Happy tidings
If Italian PM Romano Prodi’s 4-day visit to Kolkata in February and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s forthcoming visit – both leading high level business delegation – are like music to the ears of the city’s business fraternity, no less is so the commencing of American School since yesterday. Mumbai, Chennai and of course the capital, […]
The naivety of ‘photography prohibited’
Try taking a snap inside Sealdah station, chance is the security people will come at you hotfooted to tell you that photography is prohibited there. If you manage to hold on to the photograph you’ve just taken, may be you’d have to shell out some cash as a price for that. This is surprising on […]
If Mumbai gets it, why not Kolkata?
After 2 subsequent years’ deluge brought Mumbai to the knees, the authorities there have recently asked for and granted Rs.1500 crore by the center to improve its drainage facilities. The mandarins at Kolkata thought if Mumbai is given the largesse, why not the center blesses Kolkata too with similar attention! After all, the city can […]
Shivaji, the steed, dies
Kolkata’s monstrous buses have just added another infamous feather in their cap. A minibus on Baishnabghata-Howrah route knocked over and killed a thoroughbred, 13-year old Shivaji last evening. Shivaji belonged to Kolkata’s mounted police division and it was during a routine evening stroll in the Maidan area that this mishap took place. The sergeant who […]
Time for burgling
Kolkata Police’s records show the number of burglary increases manifold during monsoon. A steady downpour like the one in the last week means that people are forced to spend indoors, and there is slack in vigil. If the rain is heavy, the constant drumming drowns the sound of breaking locks. It also helps the thieves […]
Filthy Kolkata
Close to where we stayed for 7 years in Alipore, a family of 3 brothers who were born and brought up there in a rented accommodation were about to split and move to their own flats. 2 of them had bought flats in Dhakuria though not in same building, while the third decided to shift […]
Wet Kolkata
The picture on the left belongs to showery Kolkata of October 2004 (image source). In it the structure of a Durga Puja pandal can be seen in the background. Yesterday’s Kolkata resembled almost same, and in fact worse at some places in the north like Sukeas Street, Amherst Street and Ultadanga. In the south the […]
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