Some years back, on a visit to Dooars, we booked an accommodation near Chalsa that stood on the periphery of a sprawling teagarden inside what was once a plywood factory. Our rooms were basically part of erstwhile staff quarters, refurbished to accommodate occasional tourists. It was monsoon and rains, when it happened, would be nothing […]
Deluge opens fissures we thought were gone
We the Kolkattans with short civic memory – though skeptical in many areas, and rightly so – are easily taken in by the suave talks of KMC. Each year the rains create havoc in the city several times during monsoon, throwing life out of gear on each occasion. And each year after the monsoon passes, […]
Dream thefts
Early today in the morning, a smallish nondescript post office in Baranagore in the northern fringes of the city has been relieved of cash amounting to several lakhs of rupees. Police, coming from their station close by, fear there may be an insider hand in the loot happening. But this incident pales in comparison to […]
Mothering at 40s
Women giving birth to offspring in late 40s is not path breaking news. But the 2 cases I’m going to mention have certain twists to them, even though not rare. Gurinder Chadha of Bend It Like Beckham fame, all of 47, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, in London day before yesterday. […]
Giving up land
Ever since trouble at Singur erupted late last year over the issue of land transfer, there was a feeling that perhaps industry can never happen in Bengal. Incidents at Nandigram made matters worse, and economists and planners who knew the dire necessity of industry in Bengal almost wrote off the state’s chance of reviving its […]
Polluting autos
It’s that time of the year when concern for environment reaches peak, only to ebb slowly but surely as days and months progress, until the arrival of next year. To the credit of government and other related agencies, the flavor of concern changes each year, which is good, because otherwise the whole thing becomes very […]
Fishy tale and Hilsa
Dead fish off Australian coast – not a pretty sight! [Image source]It’s that time of the year when the leases of ponds are renewed, and if there is going to be a change, the old leaseholder tries to drain out all the fishes before transferring the lease. The new leaseholder releases fresh rounds of baby […]
Learning In Australia? A Tough Call.
Protesting exploitation!! [Image source]Sometime back I attended a Canadian education seminar at the city’s Grand Hotel for my son. The institutes that came didn’t seem to be front-ranked in their country. Yet there was considerable rush of wannabe students who wish to pursue further studies there. Like me there was another person at the seminar […]
Blogger permits Hindi
For long I’m yearning to write some posts in Bengali, my mother tongue. It’s so difficult you see. Terms like transliteration, Unicode and what not are clouding my head with no clear sense of what can actually make me realize my dream. Short of that, here is what I find Blogger is now allowing, which […]
And now, E-smoke
I’ve started to dread the alphabet ‘e’. First it was just email. It sounded nice on arrival and soon got me hooked. After awhile ebay came on the way. This too was okay. After all, there is lot in the largest auction site to idle away time. Then came ebook, a term to which I’m […]
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