A delighted US Ambassador – Why not! [Image source]It’s that time of the year when you hear that full-throated cries, “..sagar, himsagaa..r, himsagar liye jaan”, whenever you near any Kolkata market. Saliva forms in the mouth, which you draw sharply in even as you peer determinedly at the king of the fruits that virtually all […]
The pachyderm mess
A tusker in Chapramari forest, Dooars – life at stake! [Image source] The story repeats again and again, only this time the tragedy is too hard that will haunt animal lovers for ling time to come. Thursday late night, 5 elephants of which one was an expectant mother, lost lives apparently due to lightning. The […]
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 […]
Slurppp!
Slurp is Yahoo!’s web-indexing robot. But slurp is also how you sound when you try to control your tongue at the sight of a mouth-watering food. Those who relish the juicy crunchy jalebi that is dished out at every sweetshop of the city twice a day, would need no telling the concept of slurp. I […]
Aviation Institutes
When aviation space was opened up in the beginning of 90s, one of the early entrants was Damania Airways promoted by Pervez Damania and his family. Initially, good standard of service brought fame to it until it became known that internally the company was bleeding. In mid-90 Damania Airways was acquired by the Chennai-based NEPC […]
The disease within
Image sourced from here. Plagiarism!Few will disagree plagiarism is an art, which if perfected and executed well, can reward handsomely. I remember in our college days if the topic to write a dissertation on didn’t have previous years’ works to ‘help’ us, we’d immediately press for a change till the professors relented. The trick then […]
The turn of events
Suddenly, the stock market looks good. A small wave of good news has brought cheers to lackluster trading last week. For example, Infosys’ Q4 results have taken the market by pleasant surprise. The quarter’s net income for Infy rose by about 70% over last year’s Q4 figure. The FY06 net too recorded robust growth. The […]
The curse of L1
If any alphanumeric combination can ever be blamed for pathetic civic conditions, it must be L1. It stands as the short form of ‘lowest bidder’. Why does it cast so dark a spell? Here is an account. For all government tenders (and indeed those from PSUs), the magic to get selected for coveted works is […]
A short story
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Development sans planning
If the Nandigram episode marks a blot on government’s somewhat peremptory perusal of land acquiring, the continuing unrest there firmly indicates that the opposition parties want to keep the ember glowing for as long as it suits them politically. It is anybody’s guess what may ultimately transpire after the no-holds-barred trading of charges currently underway […]
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