His smile may not be as endearing as Derek O’Brien’s, and his hair may already be thinning. But if you omit these 2 minuses, Siddharta Basu must reign as the most prolific quizmasters in India of all time. We’ve had several of them on TV every now and then, but Siddharta has not only held […]
Treat for beggars
A chance like this is a rare occurrence. For those who do not have any roof on their heads and can hardly afford to think beyond the next square meal, Malay Saha’s generosity has been hard to believe. But there he was, looking for beggars and ragamuffins in lanes and by-lanes of Sodpur to invite […]
Get well soon
She is young, beautiful, hardworking, stylish and sporty. She epitomizes what average Indians are not. She excels in sports. For all of 20 years that she is, she has fought all the odds that were stacked against her. She represents that rare girl power that has dared to dream big in international arena. [Image source] […]
Hassan Ali Khan
A few hundred crores to him must be like peanuts because Pune’s stud farm owner Hassan Ali Khan is no less a tycoon than DLF’s KP Singh, or perhaps worth more than him. That may be no big reason why Hassan Ali is making waves for the last couple of days. After all, India does […]
Life in Kolkata
How is life in Kolkata? As the caption of this blog says, it is ‘simply beyond words’. Several images crisscross the kaleidoscope of one’s mind while moving about in this great city, often hailed as the culture capital of India. Here is a vivid account of Katie Block and her friend Annie, currently in Kolkata […]
Subhas Dutta
Remember him? That environment crusader, who almost single-handedly denied the Kolkata Book Fair in Maidan this year! Well, he did not visit the KBF in Salt Lake Stadium because he felt he might be unwelcome there. But Subhas is not against Book Fair, and certainly does not deserve being portrayed a ‘villain’ as if he […]
Sanjay Dutt
Let me admit that the first time I saw Sanjay Dutt on big screen was when he played the role of Girish in Parineeta. I was partly driven by the desire to see how Saratchandra’s novel has been made into a film by the former ad-man Pradeep Sarkar, and also out of curiosity that had […]
Vir versus Karan
Vir and Karan – readers’ delight![Picture source: left, right]Even journalists from same paper may differ. But that speaks volumes about the quality of the newspaper, which is the HT in this case. I keep Sunday HT because I like to read the columns by Vir Sanghvi and Karan Thapar. And today they lock horns over […]
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