For every person using his own place to bath, there must be several who perforce bath in the open. Nowhere is the picture so disarmingly vivid than in Kolkata where roadside bathing is a common scene to come across. This brings into focus the other reality. There are many slums in the city, and people […]
A mandate brings respite
The stake was staggeringly high. Do we need industry or not? Should industry come up on farmland? Should there be a chemical hub in Haldia? On the face of it these questions have easy answers. We need industry for economic progress and to provide jobs to thousands of unemployed. Industry cannot be avoided on farmlands […]
Another Xavierian for high office
Professor Hamid Ansari, who is presently the chairman of National Commission for Minorities (NCM), has been declared nominee for the post of Vice President by the ruling UPA government. [Image source] Prof Ansari is a distinguished diplomat and educationist, and is one of the recipients of 1984 Padma Shree award. He has been at the […]
Topsy-turvy stock market
My nephew, a 20-something professional in interior decoration, is lately enamored with stock investing. Not that he has studied much as to why stocks move either way because he doesn’t need to, for stock investing is not his game as he’s pretty much immersed in his trade in which he has earned good name. But […]
Place for loving
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.-: Albert Einstein :- Loving couples would like this Einstein quote for his take on relativity. What however is more real than the reality […]
Japan’s PM coming to Kolkata
It will be his 48-hour trip to India, not a big length of time, but he is expected to spend his second day in Kolkata. It’ll be an honor for the city, but more than that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s forthcoming Kolkata visit is yet another firm indication that the state is back in reckoning […]
Bridge without fanfare
The second Vivekananda Bridge opens today without virtually any hullabaloo. Some time back the bridge was to be inaugurated by no less a person than the Prime Minister, which the stature of the bridge rightly demands. But things changed at the last moment. The PM is not coming and no one else is doing the […]
Trouble at Big Bazaar
The place looks like a mini-jungle of two-footed men and women – shout, jostle, furtive looks, nonchalance all combined for good measure. It’s the place where customers are helped, pushed away in a corner that comes on the right just as you get inside the main entrance at Big Bazaar, Hiland Park. This Sunday evening […]
Kolkata’s Chinese
Meiyang Chang’s phenomenal success at the Indian Idol has firmly brought the focus on Chinese community in the city. Though Meiyang is shown to be hailing from Dhanbad, there’s no doubt his family has settled there after moving from Kolkata. Kolkata has the largest population of Chinese in India and they are mostly concentrated in […]
A namesake gift
What is common between Meghnad Saha and Meghnad Desai? I’m afraid there’s no prize for correct answer. For it is so obvious. There is however another common between the two stalwarts. It is the quest for pursuing knowledge. As per news report in Khaleej Times, Lord Meghnad Desai is so enamored by his namesake that […]
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