This is that time of the year when all the places where Indians are heavy in numbers or have a say in the goings-on will glitter in lights on account of the Diwali. Though the festival of lights (I also prefer ‘sound’) is still good 10 days away, there are every signs of early festivities. […]

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Pity I could not take the photograph of the full moon last night as I was engaged elsewhere. Last evening it was when goddess Lakshmi was worshipped in every Bengali household. The goddess is otherwise worshipped every Thursday, and coincidentally the annual ritual this year fell on a Thursday. But there was yet another pleasant […]

A little over 7 months separate its inaugural flight from the first commercial flight. While the first one was a trans-Atlantic voyage from Toulouse to Los Angeles, the second one today is across the Indian Ocean. Well, the story is about the A380. Singapore Airlines becomes the first company to fly the giant A380 on […]

Early morning today the Durga Puja pandal at the Pocket 40 of Chittaranjan Park in Delhi caught fire, and it took the fire tenders nearly 45 minutes to extinguish it. Predictably, a pall of gloom has descended at the place. Fire in Delhi puja pandals is however not new. Several years back the B-Block puja […]

Not long back whenever one wanted to inquire if you’ve taken an insurance cover on your life, he would invariably ask, “Did you do LIC?” In those days the insurance sector was not opened for private participation, so therefore there was no choice for taking out a life insurance except from LIC. Now the picture […]

Western sky yesterday evening. Fingers crossed. Gusty wind flowed the entire day yesterday. It rained at selected places – more in the south of the city than in the north. And suddenly it felt quite cold as if it heralded the onset of winter. People however kept their fingers firmly crossed. It rained so much […]

Durga Puja starts this week, and the preparation for the mega-celebration is on the full swing. Protima (idol) has come to almost all the big-budget pandals even though the pandals are not fully ready yet. I had the occasion of visiting a couple of renowned pujas today while on work. And here are the snaps […]

When the erstwhile Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE), now bedridden, asked for and got the plot opposite Science City allotted by the government for expansion of its activities, it perhaps never imagined that the plot would become a golden egg in just about a decade’s time. For, had it thought so it would have put the […]

The skeletons of Maa Durga’s abode on earth 12 days from now look agape at you. There, inside and on the structure outside, the workmen hang like monkeys dangling from branches of a tree. They are busy piecing together parts that will go on to form magnificent edifices come puja days. Work proceeds round-the-clock with […]