A little over 3 months back NDTV conducted a survey to choose 7 wonders of India. The grand finale took place in a glittering function in New Delhi on April 3 last. All the 7 selected were man-made monuments, and predictably the Taj Mahal won the ‘race’. Taj Mahal was also one of the New […]
Table Mountain
It’s been several months that I visited south of South Africa with family. The pictures we took remained unattended for various reasons until I decided to do something with them some time back. The video below (the first one) puts together 14 still images of Table Mountain, that fantastic ageless wonder in Cape Town. Below […]
Bone of spelling contention
Some things are better ‘now’ than ‘never’. Take change for example. I resisted social networking for months – ages in cyber parlance – hoping better sense would prevail to the gung-ho enthusiasts of modern web generation. But no, no amount of my ill-wishing could do any harm to the Facebooks and Twitters striding ahead. People […]
2 million ebooks for free at 4th World Ebook Fair
The World eBook Fair enters 4th year with this month, and the month-long event will continue from July 4 to August 4. There are some 2 million titles for free download. Among contributing organizations are Project Gutenberg with 100,000+ titles, World Public Library with 500,000+ titles, Internet Archive with 1,385,000+ titles, even 17,000+ titles from […]
27 years later
[Image Source] Old memories must have been passing through his mind when he rose to present this year’s budget in the parliament. The man on his left as he spoke was the Governor of the RBI when he last presented the budget. Now he is the Prime Minister. Pranab Mukherjee was perhaps setting a record […]
Fans from all over the world to bid MJ goodbye
His was the world stage. He belonged to that vast humanity that has no geographical barriers. No surprise then that Michael Jackson’s public memorial service to be held on coming Tuesday is going to have visitors from all over the world. A total of 17500 tickets to the event to be distributed on the Internet […]
Bounty for Bengal
Not since the underground Metro did Bengal stand to receive so much from the Indian Railway. It’s stupendous by any standard, and what is a surprise is that not many from outside Bengal are wagging a finger at this shower of ‘gifts’ on Bengal. Nitpickers may argue where from so much money will come, the […]
Saina’s dilemma
Yesterday, the t2 headline is a quote by Saina Nehwal: I appeal to parents to allow their children to pursue their dreams. If they have the talent for badminton, please allow them to pursue it. Saina is 19, which according to many doesn’t qualify her to be called an adult, though technically she is because […]
Breaking Wrilence
Getting rubbed off by Sukumar Roy’s talent may be a good sign of better days on the way, so I’d ask for your little indulgence as I combine ‘writing silence’ to ‘wrilence’ in the heading. But what is writing silence (I can see the creases on your forehead…)? Well, it is my way of saying […]
Bengal at crossroads
Though feed-readers to this blog are steadily increasing, I feel guilty for not writing posts for a long time. This would perhaps have continued for some more time had it not for the fact that I somehow felt compelled to pen my thoughts on the failure of the left parties in the elections just gone. […]
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