With the decks getting cleared of interference and work stoppages, the parking plaza underneath Lindsay Street opposite New Market is now ready for what it is meant for. According to new plans, it is slated for inauguration around Bengali New Year’s day at the hands of CM, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. The project builder, Simplex Projects Limited, […]

JL Nehru Road, better known as Chowringhee Road, is fast emerging as the ‘metal’ address of Kolkata. Starting from Birla Planetarium up to the point where Park Street flyover begins, regional offices of at least 4 major steel manufacturers were hitherto located. To the august list now adds that of Nalco. First off, just opposite […]

So what if there’s no horizontal space to maneuver? What about going vertical! Yet this simple solution took a long time to appear in the collective wisdom of Eastern Railway’s engineers. But at last it has. The place in question is Dum Dum Junction, and the plan in pipeline is to construct an elevated pair […]

Kolkata’s powers-that-be are an ignorant lot when it comes to matters like environment and preservation of heritage. It is not a crime not to know everything. But it certainly is if you pretend you know everything, and worse still if you prevent others to do anything meaningful as if nobody knows better than you. This […]

Kolkata’s east is the new destination all are scrambling to get into. Not without reason. City’s east has been expanding at a fast pace, and it’s not just New Town at Rajarhat. The entire belt to the east of EM Bypass too is seeing a spree in expansion. However, if you’ve seen how Gurgaon, Navi […]

But for faulty policies, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) would be a prosperous landlord. It owns most public markets in the city, nearly all of which are in prime locations. Take for example the New Market, Entally Market, Park Circus Market, Maniktala Bazaar and Ultadanga Municipal Market to name a few. But even though its market […]

Even as tempers are yet to cool down in Singur and Nandigram, a new wave of protest against another showpiece development is brewing in Howrah. But this is different and there is perhaps less reason to loose sleep. The issue concerns the Kolkata West International City (KWIC), that grand township gradually taking shape off NH-6 […]

The above picture is that of ancestral home of legendary political figure, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy during the independence movement of the country. The mansion, located as it is on Shakespeare Sarani (Theater Road), though classified as a heritage building, is now in the hands of a realty developer, who is tearing it down to make […]