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In Brazil They Paint the Roads & Walls to Say They Love the Beautiful Game

June 18, 2014 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

Road painting in Brazil to herald world cup

Now of course the picture is different. The first round matches are well underway. Germany and Holland have proved that goals can be scored at will. Portugal’s Pepe has confirmed beyond doubt that few would be as fool as him. But before all that started, before the Argentine fans intertwined through gridlocked traffic off Copacabana […]

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How Amazon is Transforming India’s Retail Sector

April 28, 2014 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

Amazon Fresh trucks carrying supplies to retailers

Amazon understands how critical it is to deliver items fast. Thus even as Wal-Mart waits on the wings to enter India’s retail sector, Amazon is aggressively pushing its advantage in India.

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What an opposite – chill in US, sizzling in Aus

January 10, 2014 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

Spectacular photo of Niagara freezing midway in its fall

So what is polar vortex? Until a week back few people would have heard of it. Now, and for days (perhaps years) to come, many people won’t forget the term.

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China’s Grand Parade

October 4, 2009 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

I got to see only brief glimpses of it on the TV, but the moment I came across this video below I decided I must have it here to share with my readers.

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Shashi Tharoor’s faux pas

September 18, 2009 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

That he is close to the Congress party was evident when he got that party’s nomination for the prestigious Trivandrum seat in the last elections. But given his high profile and international repute, it remains a mystery how he could agree to slip into a much smaller shoe of a minister of state.

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India’s first Green Party

August 28, 2009 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

Thinking about it a little differently I believe that the comment-makers feel so near to the environment causes that the last thing they need to bother is sharing their personal details. If you read the comments you’ll see I’m not off the mark.

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Bolt now eyes 9.4 seconds

August 17, 2009 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

You can’t blame him for aiming something improbable. Because Usain Bolt, for all his superhuman effort, was like a man possessed as he ran the fastest 100m ever. He broke his own Beijing record a year back with a scorching 9.58 seconds for the dash.

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Killer Lightning

August 5, 2009 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

A story in today’s Telegraph informs that a single bolt of lightning killed 9 people in a village in Burdwan, 135km from Kolkata. They were part of a gathering that in fact assembled to mourn the death of a person. As a cruel twist of fate, the son and daughter-in-law of the man in whose […]

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74,000 and perhaps still growing!

July 30, 2009 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

This one statistic has a strong potential. It conveys the impression that India is a highly literate country. The truth is however vastly different. What’s the stat anyway…! Well here it is. Mohan Jatua, the MoS for I&B, informs, “More than 74,000 newspapers are registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI).” But wait, […]

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Bollywood is king, Nollywood is queen

July 29, 2009 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

It’s hardly a surprise that Bollywood makes more than what Hollywood makes in a year. But if the ‘more’ is nearly double, then one needs to sit up and take note. I said ‘nearly’, because according to the figures by Times Insight Group, India with prime producing centers at Mumbai, Chennai, and Hyderabad made 1132 […]

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