Budhia Singh – feasting on a child ‘prodigy’! [Image source] Remember Budhia Singh, the small boy just 4 years old last year, whose long-distance running, egged on by full-bodied airhead CRPF jawans, created furor in the media? Well, he is going to run again, sorry walk, and this time it’s all of 500 km. He’ll […]
RK Laxman – The Creative Best
I’ve with me some 6 fantastic cartoons sent by an acquaintance. Created by the great RK Laxman, all these are copyrighted by Times Of India. Enjoy the visual delight. Technorati Tags: rk laxman, laxman, times of india, cartoon RESIGN From Your Boring Job!
Swapping workability
[Image source: left, right]As long as he was the CM himself or through his wife by proxy, Lalu Prasad Yadav was hamstrung by a strange inability to do things that go by the adjective ‘good’ in his home state. There was lawlessness in Bihar, which more than anything else drew limelight, so much so […]
Return to Indianism
A 2003 Rediff reminder of UP politics: hope it’s now behind us![Image source] Fortunately, pollsters were proved wrong in UP. Else, had there been fractured verdict, one would have started seeing horse-trading in earnest. In a way, Mayavati’s victory is a sign that factional politics is not liked by people there. Why? The reason is […]
The Inspirer Of Humanity
[Image source] || Aloker ei jhorna dharaye dhuiye daoapnake ei lukiye-rakha dhulaye dhaka, dhuiye dao.. || || Je jon amaar majhe joriye achhe ghumer jaaleaaj ei shokale dhire dhire taar kopalee Ei arun aloor sonar-kathi chhuiye dao.. || || Bishwo-hridoy-hotee-dhawaa aloye pagol probhaat hawaa..,shei hawaate hridoy amaar nuiye dao..|| || Aaj nikhiler anandadharaye dhuiye dao,moner […]
Law by your side
Tales are many that when from a long queue of eager aspirants the god has to decide whom to permit entry to the heaven, he becomes extremely choosy and rarely admits those who practiced law in the earth. Looking at 2 recent incidents in the city, one feels perhaps the god really has sufficient reasons […]
On way to regain no.1
Let it be a quiz. Name a personality who is a great-great grandson of legendary poet Michael Madhusudan Datta, a recipient of Padma Sri in 2001, have married ex-wife of Sunjay Dutt, and born in Goa but brought up in Kolkata. [Left image courtesy] Well the answer is Leander Paes. Leander has brought many glories […]
Great Indian Middle Class
The last couple of years have seen stupendous growth in spending by the middle class. Going by the just-released McKinsey report, number of wireless subscribers has gone up by 68% to 166 million between March 2006 and this year March. [Left image source] This is a sure indication that more and more people are becoming […]
An able administrator
Satyabrata Ganguly perhaps hasn’t ever thought that his rise to fame would be through his kidnapping. Before that fateful event, he was more recognized as an able administrator in Kolkata’s corporate circle, which of course he is else he won’t be the only choice to head the trouble-prone Indian Football Association (IFA). On Good Friday, […]
Kunal Saha’s plight
Is there something for West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) to hide? By all accounts, it seems so. This impression gets bolded going by the report in DNA that a single-member judge has dismissed Dr. Kunal Saha’s plea to gain access to WBMC records under the recently enacted Right to Information Act (RTI) on the ground […]
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