In a fitting tribute to Lady Ranu Mookherjee’s monumental contribution to Bengal art, her mansion on Ho Chi Minh Sarani is now being planned for conversion into a heritage hotel keeping its ‘original glory intact’. Lady Ranu, who is remembered for her undying passion of art, music and culture, was instrumental for founding of Academy […]
20,000 homes
The largest public housing project in Kolkata, Shukhobrishti, of mind-boggling 20,000 flats is going to have foundation stone laid today (Dec 24) in New Town at the hands of Jyoti Basu. On a day when PM Manmohan Singh inaugurates rejuvenation of SAIL’s IISCO steel plant at Burnpur at a cost of Rs. 9600 crore, the […]
Kolkata’s new airport
Dum Dum airport, aka NSC Bose International Airport, is shortly becoming passé. Its modernization is in progress, a second runway being readied extending toward Barasat. Besides, expansion of terminal area, more number of parking bays for aircrafts, additional check-in counters with independent conveyor system, and so on are also progressing at quite a pace. But, […]
Calcutta International School and Forum
What’s common to Forum, that famed Elgin Road shopping plaza, and Calcutta International School (CIS)? The answer is The Courtyard. The what, you may ask. Well, The Courtyard is in fact the name of what Forum plans to build in the school’s erstwhile 20 Lee Road campus. It is that patch of land, which is […]
Neotia Elbit Healthciti
Among the property developers who have brought in a breath of fresh air to the city’s staid old concepts, Bengal Ambuja must rank at the top. In the 90s, when EM Bypass was yet to be recognized as part of the city, Bengal Ambuja started large-format housing project where Santoshpur meets the Bypass. This was […]
New airport in offing
First it is that a second airport cannot come in Kolkata since one is already operating at Dum Dum. Then comes the ‘assertion’ that Kolkata’s present traffic does not warrant a second airport, never mind that as and when traffic soars, the present airport cannot keep pace with expansion, handicapped as it is with constraint […]
Is this a joke coming true?
This is what occurred in my mind when I happened to come across the following news item (excerpt) in today’s Kolkata Newsline: Kolkata has yet another reason to celebrate – the city has been judged as the second best in the world by the World Leadership Forum, London in the category of “urban renewal”. Apparently, […]
After Singur, Salim gets going
Even as the dust over Singur is slowly settling down, the focus is set to turn to Salim Group’s proposed 4-lane 100 km Eastern Link Highway stretching from Barasat to Raichak and from there to Kukrahati on the other side of Hooghly river via a 4-lane bridge. Since marine vessels coming from Sandheads at the […]
Howrah Bridge illuminated -2
On popular demand, here are a couple (plus a third, added later) of images of the effervescent Howrah Bridge (aka Rabindra Setu), two during day, the third with lights on. Pity none is taken by me, I’ve only borrowed them (sources given). The highlight of recent lighting of Howrah Bridge is that Kokata Port Trust, […]
Hotels ahoy
My friend, who looks after hospitality section of a big company, has a frequent complain. There is just no space available in any star hotel in the city. Executives, who are entitled for suites, do not agree to put up in 3-star hotels (not that the situation there is any better, but it’s better than […]
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