Frisco, a nickname of San Francisco, the 14th most populous US city with about 7 million people taking the Bay Area into consideration, is a wealthy and picturesque place to live in. Yet, according to Caille Millner, the San Francisco Chronicle editorial writer, Frisco is a less safe place than Kolkata where she has just […]
You are not late making money from Indian stock market
Sensex at 13K last year October [Image courtesy] Let’s face it. It’ll be a cardinal sin if you’re not making money on the Indian stock market. Your portfolio may be small, just about a few lakhs of rupees or may be lesser, or as big as one running into tens of lakhs of rupees. HNIs […]
North-East is where the South-East begins
It goes to the credit of a brilliant central minister from the south that the country’s North-East is slowly gaining prominence. Even though India has consciously adopted a look-east policy since the time when Narasimha Rao was the PM, little worthwhile in terms of improving the infrastructure has happened on the ground. This is despite […]
World blogging expo
Trust the Americans to do it really big especially when it’s a social event. The Blog World Expo is going to hold the first-ever – I’m not sure if it is – blogging conference and tradeshow on November 7-9 at Las Vegas. The organizer is saying it’s the world’s largest. That may as well be […]
Dare you live in Kolkata!
Ask the question to the transport minister Subhas Chakraborty, who is now busy sorting out glitches on the path of the proposed East-West Metro. Chance is all you’ll receive is a blank stare from him. He must be a harried person because he has to convince the owners of 40 small furniture shops along a […]
Google reaches everywhere, even your home
If you happen to have a fairly large landed property, and haven’t been able to check for sometime what has grown in the northeast corner of your garden, head straight to Google Maps. Chance is you’ll get the latest image of the spot and can bark instructions to your startled estate manager if necessary sitting […]
Getting rich the stock market way
Week before last the looming political storm almost took the market for a ride as the stocks nosedived. I find it fascinating to watch the same analysts fluctuating alternately between optimism and pessimism as the goes on a roller coaster. One cannot blame them because they cannot be seen as singing different tunes when obviously […]
Nuclear deal, and the left conundrum, part 2
In his press declaration this afternoon to announce the decision arrived at earlier in the day by CPM’s central committee, Prakash Karat, the party’s general secretary, sounded reasonable. He said the phrase ‘withdrawal of support’ to the present government was never uttered since the controversy started. Karat also said that let there be a mechanism […]
Nuclear deal, and the left conundrum
If there is one trait the Indian left can be easily identified with, it is anti-Americanism. Those like me who have spent greater part of life in Kolkata would recall the left’s popular slogan, markin sambrajyabad, nipat jak (let the American imperialists perish!) that would rent the air till recent past in any meeting or […]
Millionaires, yet no respite from hard work
How do you think a man with $2 million in bank, living in a fully paid-off $1.3 million villa overlooking the Pacific, and having a net worth of $3.5 million with his wife will be leading his everyday life? Well, if you’re Hal Steger, a Silicon Valley resident, you’ll continue to work hard 12 hours […]
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