If I hadn’t come across tulleeho.com’s website, courtesy ET’s yesterday’s Brand Equity, I wouldn’t have believed that one, such as theirs exists. It may perhaps reflect my ignorance, though I’m an avid web watcher, but more than that it represents my typical Indian psyche as to whether talking about liquor isn’t after all a social […]
Katrina’s tips
Healthcare encompasses everything from hair to toenails, so would suggest health specialists. And if body is in order, mind would certainly be, many would believe. Lest there be any doubt, cast it away, for that is what the smiling faces at Silk-n-Shine Sananda Kesh Katha at Hyatt Regency last evening seem to suggest. There was […]
India’s cord blood banking
According to a report in today’s ABP (Anandabazar Patrika), cord blood banking is slowly emerging as an attractive bait to beat the attrition rate in talent-starved corporate world. Now, what is cord blood banking, you might ask. Cord blood banking is the technique of isolating and preserving stem cells at cryogenic temperature after collection from […]
Odd man out
It’s an amusing scene I come across this morning during my walking around the local park. A group of 4 elderly men – must be in their 60s – sort of accosting a fifth elderly man about his living habits. The fifth man is also in 60s, their morning-walk companion, but stands out as a […]
Curing snakebite
In the aftermath of monsoon, and prior to winter, snakebites are rampant in countryside. Often people resort to superstitious techniques instead of running to a nearby clinic, delaying proper treatment, which in most cases prove fatal. In a research by scientists of Jadavpur’s prestigious Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), it is found that “the […]
Drink and walk to live healthy
You may blame me for choosing the 2 options to live healthy that are close to my heart. While accepting that I’m indeed choosy, let me say that drinking alcohol is still a big no-no in most Indian households. My mother, for example, can never accept that alcohol can ever do anything good. To her, […]
Goat meat ahoy
Is there a connection between what our CM says and JU’s meat-related invention? May be I’m reading too much into it, but if it is true by any stretch of imagination, it is indeed most welcome. And why not? We’re meat-loving people, but alas our appetite is constrained by consideration for good health. But first, […]
Buladi for pujas
Tackling AIDS head-on – with success! (Picture source)If there is one outdoor advertisement that doesn’t go amiss in Kolkata’s busy thoroughfares, it is Buladi. This plump middle-aged matron’s image has sunk deep into one’s mind bit by bit, and that is where its portrayal is successful. It shows that social message, if conveyed deftly, can […]
Early barley
[First appeared on Tuesday, December 27, 2005] At the risk of venturing on non-Kolkata subjects once too often (that’s what a few viewers told me), I want to share a piece of good news that appeared in today’s newspaper (The Economic Times, Kolkata, Dec 27). The FDA of US has in a communiqué informed that […]