A decade or 2 from today, Kolkata may become a city where commuters may depend less on errant road transport system like one now finds. Metro may have started in Kolkata in 1984, but its route never extended beyond Dum Dum in the north, and Tollygunge to the south. This is about to change when […]
Bracing up for another non-compliance
Compliance with orderly living is a rarity in today’s Bengal, and the city of Kolkata is no exception. This coming Friday, 31st July, is the last day for commercial vehicles in the city to go green. This is an order from the Calcutta High Court that seeks to save millions in the city from poisonous […]
Twitter loses Nilekani
Does it matter? In an over-reactive web world where opportunities are seldom let go, Nandan Nilekani’s leaving Twitter is certainly a news. Twitter is popular. It has recently broken into top-50 most visited websites in the US. It now has 20 million users. See my article, Twitternama. These facts however may not look impressive unless […]
Bengalis are foodies, but rarely in public
How much does the heading convey a Bengali’s anguish at the rarity of Bengali food joints I don’t know, but several factors do stand out as to why that is so. As Labonita Ghosh in her article in DNA points out, Bengalis are not too entrepreneurial, which probably explains why the number of eateries hasn’t […]
A video of century’s longest total solar eclipse
Millions of enthusiasts across parts of India, China, and Japan yesterday witnessed the grand celestial spectacle. If I may quote from the maker of the following YouTube video, the solar eclipse lasted as long as 6 minutes and 39 seconds in some places. There is also the information that the video is from NHK–the Japanese […]
Google is the most popular destination
For many online watchers, nothing excites more than the latest episode from the Googlenama. They won’t be disappointed to know that the world’s largest search engine – rather largest online marketer – is also the most popular among the US web users. The search market has for long remained under Google’s overwhelming domination. But now […]
A rare eclipse
The blowy wind over Kolkata has somewhat ebbed in the evening bringing cheer to many souls across the city. The grand spectacle is just a little more than a day away, and the enthusiasts are bracing up to watch it. The total solar eclipse is said to be the last that can be seen from […]
13 US Universities in global top 20
The QS Network’s 2008 ranking of the of world’s top 100 universities is now out. The QS is a leading network for top careers and education. 13 universities rank in the world’s top 20, headed by Harvard University, and followed by universities of Yale, Cambridge and Oxford in that order. See the image below. In […]
97-year old comes wishing 95-year old
Jyoti Basu, the CPM patriarch, is now ill, recuperating at a Salt Lake hospital. He is a tall leader, the tallest among the India’s communists thus far some would argue. He has just completed 95 years (born in 1914), and the remarkable thing is that he still has very good memory. When the finance minister […]
Howrah Station awaiting world-class care
Bridging Kolkata & Howrah – the 3 prides! [Image source] There are many expletives that can be hurled at Kolkata for its abysmal failure to protect human lives on the road, and for permitting the most lawless road transport that one could think of. But notwithstanding the pervading gloom that descends after every road accident […]
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