It was almost inside with the gulp, but a fifth of it just won’t come in. And now the hope of having the full is abandoned. This is what best describes DHL’s dilemma with India’s biggest private courier, Blue Dart. To recall my Aug 16 post, Blue Dart is now DHL’s, things looked certain that […]
IT union comes into being
Even as CITU launches its arm for IT employees, there is a sense of déjà vu among those who know what this may mean in time to come. Tech-company chiefs are busy gauging its likely impact since it’s for the first time that such a situation has arisen in India. Predictably, no honcho is willing […]
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 […]
Pleasure of not working
One who works is not extolled, complains the gatekeeper of our complex. The disease he refers to obliquely is pretty widespread, so his allegation fails to raise our collective eyebrows. It will rather be surprising if instead we find everything in order. There is an old saying that Bengalis love addas neglecting work, and there […]
Loan that devours
There are many dangerous pitfalls behind the luster of attractive home loans. If you’re a loan-taker and haven’t known the traps, now is the time to wake up. Sample the following story from The Telegraph (excerpt): Two years ago, Arun D’Souza took a Rs 18.45 lakh home loan at a floating rate of 7.25 per […]
Do you mind?
Some of my readers have complained that I often stray away from Kolkata news, such as the one below. I’m told that if I loose focus (that is, if I write anything other than about Kolkata), my blog would soon become unattractive to many. Well, to give my reply in 2 words, it will be: […]
Reasons to cheer…
On a day when Kolkata wakes up to a gloomy overcast sky, here are some news that bring cheer.. :: On Day One of summer placements at Indian Institute of Management – Calcutta (IIM-C), records tumbled as some students walked away with internship offers that will fetch them Rs 4.5 lakh a month. Internationals are […]
A soaring Sensex
If Sensex’s touching 13000 today – the day of dhanteras – will be like fuel in fire, so it was yesterday in US when the bellwether Dow Jones crossed 12000 after dithering thereabout for a long while. According to experts, there are good many reasons why Sensex must soar, of which the main pointer being […]
Indian hi-tech matchmaking
Not many years back, matchmaking for marriage used to be the domain of newspapers. Who would forget the ‘patro-patri‘ columns in Anandabazar Patrika (ABP) every Sunday running into several pages? The columns are there still, but much shorter, like skeletons of former self. Marriage matchmaking in the meantime has become high-tech. An example is the […]
Star stuck
Last Sunday’s The Telegraph has a letter from Siliguri’s Soma Datta, which is as under: One wonders why one has to be assaulted by pictures of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt every day that the star couple is in India. Why must we have photographs of the duo with their son inside an auto-rickshaw on […]
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