My nephew, a 20-something professional in interior decoration, is lately enamored with stock investing. Not that he has studied much as to why stocks move either way because he doesn’t need to, for stock investing is not his game as he’s pretty much immersed in his trade in which he has earned good name. But […]
Another makeover
Kolkata Musing has been consistently about events that stir – to my understanding of them – the imagination of Kolkattans. In course of time I realized that it is humanly impossible to cover all the ‘soul-stirring’ events as they occur because it’s only that much I can write on as is possible with my 2 […]
Consensus for NH-34
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 […]
Visiting elephants
Some years back, on a visit to Dooars, we booked an accommodation near Chalsa that stood on the periphery of a sprawling teagarden inside what was once a plywood factory. Our rooms were basically part of erstwhile staff quarters, refurbished to accommodate occasional tourists. It was monsoon and rains, when it happened, would be nothing […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lifeline for Hilsa
For its typical taste Hilsa is a prized species. No sooner the fish lands in city markets, they are lapped up quickly. The present lot that is doing rounds costs an average of Rs.250 a kg, and many among the catch are small ones weighing less than 500 gms, called khoka elish. Hilsa is a […]
Things to come
While politicians brag about their ‘people’ power, which in many cases is nothing other than protecting their turf, the businessmen, who have the ‘money’ power, go about doing their bit in perfect silence. The recent winning of the rights to make over Park Circus market by the Reliance group is an example. Reliance won the […]
True Value
It was Jagdish Khattar’s pet theme when he started True Value about 3 years back. Khattar, Maruti’s exuberant MD, could foresee that time may soon come when faced with onslaught of new models, people will prefer switching over to new cars selling off old ones that would still command fair value. [Image source left] Today, […]
This and that
2 stories that steal my eyes this morning are a bit opposite to each other. Both laud human feeling as the foundation of lasting relationship, but while one laments that the Indian society has become more intolerant, the other narrates how people from the south on job to Kolkata are slowly finding the city an […]
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