Today is India’s 61st Independence Day, and despite the fomenting trouble in Jammu and Kashmir it feels great to see my country storming into the ‘men’s group’ of Asia’s football 2 days back after 24 years in wilderness. But should feeling great have a nationalistic hue…especially when sitting in my worktable I can hear patriotic […]
Money story
Wonder what this farmer is shown doing! Watch closely, you’ll likely conclude he is stuffing papers inside a bag. Well of course that is so but going by the TT story, the man is actually shoving in hard cash. [Image left courtesy TT] The incident is bizarre because of several reasons. First is of course […]
Khushwant speaks
Khushwant Singh is an opinion maker par excellence. You may disagree, decry or even reject outright what he says, but you cannot take away the charm and lucidity of his writings. It often wonders me that Khushwant Singh at 93 still has his mental faculties intact, and perfectly capable of sound reasoning. In that capacity […]
Moitree Express
After 43 years the train link between Kolkata and Dhaka commenced on the Naba Barsha day, April 14. Flagged off by Pranab Mukherjee, the ceremony also saw the presence of 2 more union ministers, PR Das Munshi and of course Lalu Prasad Yadav. Although the efforts started more than a year back, the reality happened […]
Worth of a Kolkattan’s life
For the benefit of my readers who do not know Bengali and who do not know how nightmarish the Kolkata roads are, the above script on the back of a nondescript city private bus reads: This year let’s not race against one another. The thought is noble, but is the picture real? I copied it […]
He who cycles on water
The baton of showcasing trickeries has already passed on to his daughter Maneka, but Indrajaal hero PC Sorcar has still some aces up his sleeves. This was evident recently when the great magician bi-cycled on a pond at his Baruipur studio. [Picture courtesy, TT] This is clearly awesome…by any yardstick. But then which trick of […]
Which Subhas would you like?
If you feel a person’s name relates to his doing something right or wrong, perish the thought. For, nowhere is the belief more wrong than in case of air pollution in the city. On one side is the powerful transport minister, Subhas Chakraborty, the unquestioned ruler of everything that has to do with vehicles in […]
Do you have an office spouse?
This was no concern a few years back when the demand of work at the workplace was less. Now often people spend more waking hours in the office than at home. [Image on left courtesy] Small wonder then it is more convenient to fall in love in office, no matter if you’re already married. For […]
Is she critically ill?
Secrecy shrouds her every moment. There is no way you can know about her without her consent, which is something that happens rarely if ever. So when the Belle Vue Clinic installed extra security at vantage points, word soon leaked out that it ought to be Suchitra Sen who must have been hospitalized. In the […]
10 more years or eternity?
I cannot help but write again on Kolkata’s vehicular pollution. The trigger this time is the lead article in today’s TT Metro. Refer the image at left. TT Metro has charged the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government with culpable homicide (sometimes amounting to murder)… (underlined with blue and shown with green arrow). The charge is serious but […]
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