She would try twisting her lips and yearn to hear them in her own voice. But, no miracles ever happened. In dismay, she would remain alone in the silence of her room. She would sit on her large upholstered beige sofa and stare out of the glass paned window.
Politics of convenience
As I said in the beginning, let not the picture deceive you. There is much more colored divergence than convergence in Indian politics than you imagine.
Scientific superstitions – An observation of our mindset and education
For 2 days, I spent around couple of hours in front of him, watching the lack of incredulity of my fellow listeners. I didn’t observe a single person who tried to refute his model with logic! Instead, I watched most of them standing speechless in front of wrong reasoning and erroneous interpretation of certain well known scientific facts.
A Taste of India
None stopped by to answer a harried Bong’s questions. Just then as a messiah an autodriver stopped by, asked,”kaha chalna hai saab?” and Hindi never sounded sweeter!
Foursquare > Google Buzz > Next?
In his article John predicts that Foursquare will be either Facebook’s or Google’s before the year is over. Looks like his prediction will become true much quicker, what with the launch of Google Buzz. Only the predator is unlikely to be Google.
Tagore’s complete works now online
The project is being assisted by BESU and IIT, Kgp among others. Here is a small excerpt of a page in the site.
Sunset at the Indian Navy Camp at Diamond Harbour
The place was used to test artillery shells and was an important strategic location during the Indo-Pak war of 1971.The place still has relics from the past-a decrepit 80 feet tall watchtower, bunkers, army residential places and the kaman-ghor. My uncle, who used to study at a school nearby, told, as a child on occasional days, he used to often hear the booming sounds of shells being tested.
When Is Google Leaving China?
To that my first reaction was that just as nothing eventually shattered the earth during the cold war between the US and the then USSR despite several severe posturing, similarly Google and China too will likely mend the common fence between them in their own ways, away from the media’s glare.
What Jyoti Basu leaves behind
Many of the ills that plague today’s Bengal can be traced back to his days at the helm of affairs in the state. To mention a few are causing the industries to flee Bengal, stopping teaching of English in the primary classes, losing crucial first-mover advantage with regard to the use of computers, and so on.
How Do We Live In Kolkata?
When a fire destroys homes of some 450 people, only in Calcutta do people’s leaders stop fire tenders from reaching the site. When an ambulance is desperate to reach a hospital with a dying man in it, only in Calcutta, political activists stop it and think nothing of letting the sick man suffer or even die.
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