One newspaper said this morning that Dravid wanted to resign his captaincy on a winning note and not as a loosing captain. And pray what that winning note is? It’s the Team India’s test series victory in England after 21 years. People may have different takes but I believe the series-win over a depleted England […]
Subrata Mukherjee aboard Kitty Hawk
Sujan Dutta of The Telegraph, the ‘war’ correspondent, currently covering the 5-nation naval drill, Malabar 07-02, in the Bay of Bengal, has this interesting piece on Subrata Mukherjee, the city’s colorful ex-mayor. Trinamul leader and former Calcutta mayor Subrata Mukherjee was on board the USS Kitty Hawk on Friday and as soon as he took […]
Kolkata, where once Mother Teresa lived
When you read Vir Sanghvi’s Counterpoint (every Sunday in HT), it is often difficult to contradict his flow of logic. He carries the readers with him, and though he seems somewhat less sophisticated (according to me) compared to Karan Thapar, the other famous Sunday HT columnist, I find Vir more convincing. Take his article in […]
Kite’s eye view
2 days back I wrote about the mighty Google, which is there everywhere in our lives, even in the heavens taking photographs of our little worlds, courtesy Tele Atlas or Navteq’s satellite imagery. But now it appears Google has company. Nicolas Chorier, the French kite aerial photographer – he likes to call himself so – […]
Early signs of pujo
How do you know Durga Puja (or simply pujo) is just 45 days off? There are some early signs like the pujobarshikis’ that are already out in the stalls, the pictures of leaky Kumortuli workshops making the idols, the full-page newspaper ads by shoe-makers (Sreeleathers, Khadims, et al), the near-empty shops that indicate the lull […]
Knife inside, smile outside
What do you think a knife in the stomach can do for you? For Amarendra Nath Ghosh, it was a good enough ploy to avoid extradition from Germany to India. Ghosh is not an ordinary person. He can live peacefully with a knife nestling in his stomach for almost 4 years. He is a yoga […]
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 […]
Study now, marry later
This is the message Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi conveyed to little girls of the A K Fazlul Haque Girls Higher Secondary School at Kidderpore in a function day before yesterday. His message is loaded with the call to the women of tomorrow from the weaker section to learn to negate social pressure to get married in […]
Fishing necklace inside stomach
Bizarre incidents surprise us now and then. I often wonder life would have had no color had there been no offbeat happenings that evoke awe and amusement. One such took place in the city yesterday. It all started when a petty thief after successfully snatching a gold necklace from an old lady was caught by […]
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