Pundits have long argued that boom in traveling is a sure sign of growing economy. So too are opting for advanced medicare, splurging on shopping, sending kids to money-guzzling schools, but these are somewhat not so openly pronounced. Traveling on the other hand is. See my post, Have money, will tour. Go to book your […]
Makar Sankranti
Tomorrow marks the end of 29-day Pous, the Bengali calendar month. Also called Pous Sankranti, it’ll be a day when mothers and grandmothers will prepare homemade sweets to everyone’s delight. Most common delicacies include patisapta, dudh pithe and payesh. And they taste so good that even the most diehard sweet-hater will find it difficult to […]
Visiting Sunderbans and Sukna
Innovative tour is what connects these 2 picturesque places. They are far apart from one another. Sunderbans is the deltaic region where Hooghly river (and several others) meets Bay of Bengal. It’s also the place where the world’s largest estuarine mangrove forest is, spread over 104 islands. Of these nearly 50 are uninhabited, being the […]
Bengali film in America
The first Bengali film shot in America is going to be Raj Basu’s Piyalir Password. Shooting in US locations has been completed early November, and one may perhaps look forward to a Nababarsha release. Director Raj Basu, himself a US resident, an NRB (non-resident Bengali), was an engineer and a computer professional in that order, […]
Visit India, courtesy IRCTC
With Lalu Yadav at the helm, Indian Railway is going places. For sure he has ideas, but so had others who came before him. But perhaps he is a person who ‘means’ it when he wants something done. Persons like him, when they lead, are likely to give more freedom to their subordinates to bring […]
Howrah Bridge illuminated -2
On popular demand, here are a couple (plus a third, added later) of images of the effervescent Howrah Bridge (aka Rabindra Setu), two during day, the third with lights on. Pity none is taken by me, I’ve only borrowed them (sources given). The highlight of recent lighting of Howrah Bridge is that Kokata Port Trust, […]
Outbound
Time was when traveling used to be a pleasure reserved for specific times of year. I suspect the reason why schools, colleges and courts in Kolkata (and indeed elsewhere in Bengal) would have lengthy holidays in summer and puja was that those were the time when the Bengalis would pack their bags and leave for […]
Have money, will tour
I don’t know if the definitions have changed, but in my time, in olden days, we were taught that as a person becomes rich, his needs start to trace an upward graph. Thus, if food, cloth and minimum shelter were once his primary needs in that order, with more money his next needs would encompass […]
Dare you drive there?
Seeing the pictures, even the most seasoned driver would think twice before mustering courage to ride in Bolivian hills off La Paz. The danger is obvious since there is simply not enough space for 2 vehicles to maneuver side by side. Little wonder, the road from La Paz to Coroico is said to be world’s […]
Howrah Bridge illuminated
Do we know that the Rabindra Setu (earlier Howrah Bridge), commissioned on 1943’s Feb 10, world’s 3rd largest cantilever bridge, arguably its busiest ferrying nearly 57,000 vehicles and 2 million commuters each day, was made with as much as 26,500 tons of steel of which over 85% was supplied by none other than India’s pride […]
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