Compare Dum Dum airport’s rail link to Dum Dum Junction station with Heathrow Express line’s non-stop service between London’s Heathrow airport and Paddington station. Okay okay, that’s too much to digest, I agree. Compare then Dum Dum’s rail link with that between Chennai’s airport’s suburban rail-station at Tirusulam and Egmore. What do we see? We […]
A drama called Ashwamedha Yagna
Alas, it ultimately fell on the shoulders of Gayatri Janakalyan Sangha, an NGO, to prevent malaria and dengue in Kolkata. Over 1000 pyres lit up yesterday at their behest at an Eastern Railway ground in Howrah, which will continue for 2 more days, in what is termed as Ashwamedha Yagna sans the symbolic marching of […]
Are they missing opportunity?
One almost feels apologetic about US business’ skipping Kolkata because of city’s negative perceptions (more here). Aileen Crowe Nandi, the Kolkata US consulate’s principal commercial officer, seems to feel sorry that no more than 3 companies out of 200 in their largest business delegation are consenting to visit Kolkata. There is an attempt to link […]
Festa Italiana 2006
2007 is declared as the Year of Italy in India. Today, as Festa Italiana, the annual global event that showcases Italy’s best, makes its debut in Kolkata, it is billed as the curtain-raiser to the 2007’s year-long celebration. Kolkata’s share among Festa Italiana’s pan-India events is the 10th anniversary celebration of the Indo-Italian Chamber of […]
More road = More car
When Tata Motors’ low-priced small car – hopefully made in its yet-to-come-up Singur plant – becomes available to own, it will explode the car market. This is the picture that emerges from an NCAER-survey done for Maruti Udyog, as reported in Nov 13 ET. The survey says that about 1.13 lakh 2-wheeler owners are ready […]
Protesting Saddam’s death sentence
Processions – whether of happiness or protest – come naturally to Kolkata. Be it as mundane an occasion as commemoration of a religious leader’s birth anniversary or as ‘serious’ one as the sin of India’s nuclear test, Kolkata is always game to forced stoppage of life on road to allow grand specter of people marching […]
Hawker hawker, have no fear
Supreme Court’s stern directive that no matter what, the ‘sealing’ drive against unauthorized shops and buildings in Delhi must continue, is welcome for many reasons. It will not only unclog the city’s arteries, it will also bring in a semblance of order in the way the municipal authorities conduct their business. This perhaps acted in […]
Maidan’s poor cousin
Cleared of dense jungle by the British so as to have an unhindered view around and no impediment in the lines of fire from Fort William, the maidan, Kolkata’s pride, has seen many transformation – mainly contraction from all sides – to become what it is today. The British have long gone, and while we’ve […]
Sudhir Karmakar
Last Sunday, when Sudhir Karmakar played his benefit match in East Bengal ground, the gallery was half-full. Reminiscing his golden days of 70s, he couldn’t help but exclaim, in our days galleries used to always spill over to see football. That was indeed the case as I used to be one of those thronging the […]
IT union comes into being
Even as CITU launches its arm for IT employees, there is a sense of déjà vu among those who know what this may mean in time to come. Tech-company chiefs are busy gauging its likely impact since it’s for the first time that such a situation has arisen in India. Predictably, no honcho is willing […]
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