Sister Cyril is mother personified for many hapless street children in Kolkata. She is the Principal of Sealdah’s Loreto Day School, and being an educationist, she has a very clear idea about what ails our multi-layered cast-ridden society and what prevents the poorest-of-poor children to avail a modicum of basic education. Unlike most politicians, she […]
Canal ferry runs aground
There is a pretty long history to it. No, I’m not referring to the British era when the canals used to be put to good use. Everybody knows Kolkata’s canals used to look like unshaven, uncouth backyard sewerage drains not long back. I’ve the misfortune of writing on the plight of canals in an earlier […]
Terra Dome at Science City
At a time when the effervescent Gujarat CM, Narendra Modi reportedly consults holy men to make weather-forecast for farmers only to go horrendously wrong (drought was forecast July-end that saw torrential downpour and extensive floods), institutions like Kolkata’s Science City are gearing up to embrace more of science to enlighten people about its wonders. And […]
Bengal rejuvenates
It’s not often that one gets to write on ‘destination Bengal’. For long, Bengalis have rested on their past laurels. That those have been singularly path-breaking has never been in doubt. But the sheen was gradually wearing off until at last the bare bones were showing. ‘Nothing happens here’ became the buzzword. I remember once […]
House of steel
No, this is not an expressive idiom. It is not to describe the ‘rock-solid’ colonial mansions with magnificent archways that have stood the test of time. ‘House of steel’, for once, means house made of steel. Surprised, eh! Better, don’t. Come this December, and Kolkata is going to boast of having country’s first steel house […]
The saucer, that is Kolkata
The city of Kolkata is a congested metropolis, spaced out on a saucer-like expanse. The city follows a gradual slope from the eastern flank of Hooghly river, which continues through the city and beyond until the gradient increases again up to the banks of Vidyadhari river in the Sunderbans. This means that should it rain […]
IIT, Kgp reaching out
We are practiced to see IIT as an elite institution whose privileged students always look for greener pastures once graduated. This has been the story for a long time, but in recent times the picture is changing. It is heartening to see IIT-Kgp’s recent forays into teaching specialized full-fledged law courses, notably Intellectual Property Law, […]
Hand-pulled rickshaws
If you want to travel from South City College in Gol Park to Ekdalia Road in Ballygunge, you may walk the distance, or ride on something. 2-wheeler or car may be a preference, but negotiating traffic in small lanes and by-lanes may not be everybody’s cup of tea. For Panchali to take her daughter to […]
Kolkata’s unconcerned rulers and habitants
For once, the feisty transport minister of Bengal is dot on target. He says the city doesn’t have space to park all its cars. What he omits to say is that the city has not expanded in commensurate with surge in vehicular and human population, and that this happened because of flawed policies of his […]
Seats of Learning
For a long time, because of foolishly obdurate education policy of the rulers, Bengal has seen no development in higher education. After passing out HS exams, students left in hordes to other places for higher studies. This has been the picture for over 2 decades. Of late, there is an awakening on the part of […]
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