Tabled by the government in the Assembly yesterday is a document titled ‘District-wise Vested Land (Non-Agricultural) in West Bengal available for Industrial and Commercial Purposes’. Total amount of such land is 22,412.761 acres. By any yardstick, this quantity is paltry, what with SEZs asking for tens of thousands acres for each such. This is the […]
The Sun
One never ceases to know the unknown. The outer space has always fascinated me like it has countless others. In the past, I’ve had opportunity to present here some breathtaking pictues of Saturn and Jupiter (see this post, Jupiter’s push). Now, here is an opportunity to see how the sun’s electrifying magnetic field works. This […]
Who is watching Nandigram?
How fast does news fly? In a flash I’d say. I happened to be searching Google News for other reasons, and then thought let me see what comes up for ‘Nandigram’. There are at least 335 articles for ‘Nandigram’, the latest being less than an hour old. Agencies like Reuters, AP and AFP continuously fork […]
What-not stores
An Indian ration shop, faulty distribution! [Picture source] The ubiquitous tucked-away ration shops can look forward to get some facelift. Nothing decorative, though there’s no harm if that happens as a bargain. The idea is to allow more items to be made available at ration shops so as to turn the tide of mall-going shoppers […]
Bengal’s ills
Going all out for big-ticket private investments is the new mantra with government mandarins in Bengal. Any good development is always welcome, but if we pause to think why this suddenness and dig a little more, we’ll be startled by unwelcome facts. A glimpse of what ails the state is reflected in a news report […]
Was Nandigram avoidable?
In a lead story in today’s ABP (March 5), we’re informed that there was no need of hurry in acquiring land in Nandigram for the proposed chemical hub. The reasons given are quite plausible. Salim Group, with which the government has an agreement for the chemical hub and host of other infrastructure projects, will first […]
Jupiter’s push
Planet-king Jupiter served a well-timed volley 2 days back that gave a big push to the Nasa spacecraft New Horizon on its way to Pluto. Launched on Jan 19 last year, New Horizon was slated to take 12 years to reach Pluto. For one year it has been cruising along at 43,000 miles an hour, […]
KM changes
A facelift has occured. KolkataMusing has changed. The last week has been hectic. Lots of work doing the html properly, seeing that layout comes out exactly as desired, and all those took quite an effort. Even now bugs remain here and there. And some more work is still left. That will expectedly take couple of […]
Splendor of splurging
No longer is country’s consuming populace held back by lack of choice. A far cry from days when ‘phoren’ goods used to define how ‘well’ one is, today’s consumers have learnt to live life ‘kingsize’, which is by way of splurging over consumer items. Let us look at some figures that stare at me in […]
Making money with AdSense
No great disclosure this when I say there is pot of money to be made with Google AdSense. Do I make much? Nope, I do not make even a tiny fraction of what many website owners routinely make of whom I’m going to tell you here. 1Whoever doesn’t know that man seeks woman, and woman […]
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