Move over Salim group or Tata Motors, the biggest investment in eastern India is going to be Rs.60,000 crore for a mammoth nuclear power plant in Haripur in East Medinipore. It’s likely to have 6 units of 1650 megawatt each, making it possibly the largest nuclear power plant in the country. To plain eyes it […]
Vir versus Karan
Vir and Karan – readers’ delight![Picture source: left, right]Even journalists from same paper may differ. But that speaks volumes about the quality of the newspaper, which is the HT in this case. I keep Sunday HT because I like to read the columns by Vir Sanghvi and Karan Thapar. And today they lock horns over […]
American as JNUSU VP
Oh my, what a surprise! Okay, Tyler Walker Williams was an elected councilor last year. But a Vice President? That too as a nominee of AISA (All India Students’ Association), the left-allied body? Sure, Karat and Bardhan will be happy as AISA wins 2 top posts including Tyler’s. Or, will they? For, AISA is known […]
Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank
This is a continuation of my earlier blog-post about Prof. Muhammad Yunus winning this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The prize is actually for both Prof. Yunus and the Grameen Bank, the all-encompassing grassroots institution he has created. Predictably, many newspaper columns filled in with the groundbreaking news, each accompanying an analysis of Grameen Bank’s activities. […]
Bangladesh finds an icon
Pending forthcoming general elections, Bangladesh is again in turmoil. Though a caretaker government – supposed to be neutral – is in place to oversee coming elections, rival political parties are at loggerheads in the run-up to it. Yet, the picture was dramatically different until very recently, when Prof. Muhammad Yunus was declared winner of this […]
Rules at works slacken
Some time back the Pope said that excessive working in office can lead to ‘hardness of heart and suffering of the spirit’ (read this interesting story). Pope’s advice comes in the backdrop of what is widely known but barely acknowledged, which is that long and stressful office work and the urge to excel are taking […]
Voices of Bengal
In an earlier post I briefly mentioned about making of Durga protima in London’s British Museum. The idol – now complete – is for London Durga Puja Dusserah Committee, to be worshipped at Camden Center. The high point is extra-ordinary interest among visitors to British Museum to see ‘live’ manufacturing of the protima from mid-August […]
Something eerie about Bangalore
Bangalore can claim several firsts to its credit. It is India’s first infotech city. Companies like Infosys and Wipro are household names today and have spawned an unprecedented success, which has seen India occupying top position in the world in knowledge industry. It is also a cosmopolitan city of an old-world charm and a laidback […]
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