A stall in Dilli Haat – buyers aplenty! [Image source] Each major city in India has emerged as a center of export of one commodity or other. While Kolkata ranks high for export of tea, and certain leather and jute items, Delhi is the preferred export center of handicrafts compared to other cities. One advantage […]
Mittal’s Kolkata Address
While Lakshmi Nivas Mittal ascends the throne as the richest Briton, the house that his paternal family including him as a kid lived in as a tenant has been razed to the ground. The house as such was a large one (as this TT report with pics shows) that occupied as much as 52 cottahs […]
Bidding adieu
It’s time for yet another nostalgic account of Kolkata – this one from Martin Waelde, the outgoing director of Max Mueller Bhavan. To his credit, Martin doesn’t spin the usual run-of-the-mill ‘city of joy’ story. Instead, he focuses on what Kolkata is actually perceived as in the eyes of a keen observer. Martin has spent […]
Darjeeling
A Darjeeling tea garden – lush green! [Image source] For once it’s not to sing paeans of the Queen of Hills. That it is so is beyond doubt, though the crowd makes a mess of the setting in the Darjeeling of today. But if you brush aside your nosy feeling for a while, and especially […]
Radio Mirchi’s 4 years
How times fly! Not long back, the government, apprehensive that private radio channels may jeopardize security to the nation, wasn’t inclined to the idea. It relented after much hemming and hawing, and when the permission came, the new opportunity was immediately lapped up by Radio Mirchi. Today private radio channels are dime a dozen. But […]
Clutching on to tails
Does this matter? Not really. [Image source] Publicity sans merit is a dream come true for many. People who subscribe to this virtue are usually prone to tagging on to tails of sensational happenings. The recent court case in Jaipur to punish Richard Gere for ‘obscenely’ kissing Shilpa Shetty on her cheek in an AIDS […]
The Namesake
Subtle, yet powerful [Picture source] Haven’t read the book, wasn’t much enthused when Jhumpa Lahiri’s marriage took place in Kolkata, or even at her son’s mukhebhaat (if I’m not wrong) a few months back, but when the film came, I felt an urge to see it, if only because not many worthies come these days. […]
The fallout
As the Nandigram episode of March 14 gradually unravels, it’s clear that the government is firmly on the backfoot. The refusal to hand over land has now assumed an alarming dimension. Forget industrialization, even land for infrastructure projects already undertaken or planned shortly are hard to come by. NH-35, that links Barasat with Bongaon on […]
Star Ananda and us
One of its programs, fast decline.. [Picture source] After yesterday’s stormy debates on road, in markets, on TV and almost everywhere about India’s cricket debacle, it is much cool today. Now and again when I switched on the TV, which I normally do everyday to take in the latest happenings all over the world, all […]
Life in Kolkata
How is life in Kolkata? As the caption of this blog says, it is ‘simply beyond words’. Several images crisscross the kaleidoscope of one’s mind while moving about in this great city, often hailed as the culture capital of India. Here is a vivid account of Katie Block and her friend Annie, currently in Kolkata […]
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