On the back of ongoing fiasco at Nandigram, which appears to be more about protecting political turf than to address the question of ensuring economic survival of those who loose land for industry, the situation on ground in Bengal regarding land acquisition has undergone a complete change. Not that it was anything different from what […]
Toil of helpless
In November last year, a devastating fire broke out in a 4-storey building in Topsia in the east of the city that housed an illegal factory making leather items for export. The fire claimed about 10 lives, and the main reason for death of so many people was the fact that the owner of the […]
Mothering at 40s
Women giving birth to offspring in late 40s is not path breaking news. But the 2 cases I’m going to mention have certain twists to them, even though not rare. Gurinder Chadha of Bend It Like Beckham fame, all of 47, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, in London day before yesterday. […]
Giving up land
Ever since trouble at Singur erupted late last year over the issue of land transfer, there was a feeling that perhaps industry can never happen in Bengal. Incidents at Nandigram made matters worse, and economists and planners who knew the dire necessity of industry in Bengal almost wrote off the state’s chance of reviving its […]
Steely help
At a time when Didi has declared war against industry on farmland notwithstanding the fact that every mode of civilized living has built upon where else but farmlands, the situation at Salboni in Paschim Medinipur is markedly different. The steel empire owned by Sajjan Jindal proposes to build a mammoth steel plant there on a […]
Flying in India
Opening Floodgates..! [Image source] Who pioneered low-cost airlines in India?Because of whom is there a rush of air passengers in India? The answer to both is Captain GR Gopinath. Until he arrived with his Air Deccan in the Indian aviation sky, the pie of lucrative air traffic was firmly in the hands of a few, […]
Crumbling facilities
If there are 2 entities people have little faith in, they are the police and the medical facility in Kolkata. Since our young days we’ve been hearing if police comes to your doorstep, you’re in for trouble. In Bengali, there’s a saying that loosely means between a tiger and police, the former is better. Why […]
3 years of UPA
If I’m asked what is it that holds the nation together and help it strive ahead, my answer will be that it is the social harmony among disparate sections of populace that is responsible, and one that has stood the test of time since independence. To my understanding, social harmony cannot exist if there is […]
The baton passes on
Maneka Sorcar is a proud legatee of that hard-to-find tradition of scientific magic, termed Indrajaal. PC Sorcar, who himself inherited the tradition from his illustrious father, PC Sorcar senior way back during tumultuous times of 1971, is called the Maharaja of Indian Magic. And why not! [Image source] But I like PC Sorcar’s conviction. The […]
Mr. Asha of Liverpool
The Asha, sans frills! [Image source]When Dipak Choudhary and his wife, Chandana, first set feet in Liverpool, UK in 1963, all he had with him was a princely sum of seven thousand pounds and that elusive treasure called ‘hope’. No wonder then that the restaurant he opened on April 4, 2004 at the ground floor […]
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