Alliance Française de Calcutta, the Kolkata address of The French Association, is located at Khaleel Manzil at Beckbagan off AJC Bose Road. The lane on which the building stands serves as a useful conduit for motorists who wish to take a shortcut after the AJC Bose Road flyover has come up. It’s a cramped accommodation […]
Airport revamp by private party
In its Feb 22 edition this year, The Telegraph reported that the Tatas and Singapore’s Changi Airport’s investment arm will jointly bid for Kolkata airport’s modernization. Thereafter doubts arose about it since left parties wanted the job to be done by state-run AAI (Airports Authority of India) instead of private parties. The cloud over the […]
Coin to shaving blade
What is common to coin and shaving blade? The obvious answer is metal that goes to make both. What is not obvious is that the metal of coins comes in unique form of alloy that has definite percentage of different metallic components that make it, which ensures every coin of similar denomination is identical with […]
Deluge opens fissures we thought were gone
We the Kolkattans with short civic memory – though skeptical in many areas, and rightly so – are easily taken in by the suave talks of KMC. Each year the rains create havoc in the city several times during monsoon, throwing life out of gear on each occasion. And each year after the monsoon passes, […]
Dream thefts
Early today in the morning, a smallish nondescript post office in Baranagore in the northern fringes of the city has been relieved of cash amounting to several lakhs of rupees. Police, coming from their station close by, fear there may be an insider hand in the loot happening. But this incident pales in comparison to […]
Deep sea-port off Bengal
Yet another example of proactive stance of bureaucrats and politicians from Bengal in favor of industrialization is the way in which the proposed deep-sea port off the coast is gradually taking shape. If news’ in the papers are to be believed, there has been at initial stages considerable opposition to the project at the center. […]
Polluting autos
It’s that time of the year when concern for environment reaches peak, only to ebb slowly but surely as days and months progress, until the arrival of next year. To the credit of government and other related agencies, the flavor of concern changes each year, which is good, because otherwise the whole thing becomes very […]
East-West Metro
Today’s MPs from West Bengal are a smarter lot. Gone are days when all they used to do was flexing muscle at the floor of the parliament, and petty politicking back home when the parliament was not is session. Representing state’s cause for investment and clinching ‘favors’ for the state from the center were never […]
Crumbling facilities
If there are 2 entities people have little faith in, they are the police and the medical facility in Kolkata. Since our young days we’ve been hearing if police comes to your doorstep, you’re in for trouble. In Bengali, there’s a saying that loosely means between a tiger and police, the former is better. Why […]
Where Are We Heading!
Q: Explain the terms PYT and CLT?A: PYT stands for Pretty Young Things, and CLT for Cute Little Things. Today’s TT informs it’s time for PYTs to vacate the space for CLTs. Why, what’s the great hurry, you may wonder! Provided you know what those terms mean! Okay, here it is. PYTs are those youngish […]
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