“You think Rs 37 would buy the three of us dinner at Blue Fox?” asks Lalmohan Ganguli alias Jatayu in Satyajit Ray’s immortal Feluda story, Gorosthane Sabdhan, as he picks up a wallet at South Park Street Cemetery, which becomes a clue to solving a
The ‘Shahenshah-e-Ghazal’ (Emperor of Ghazal), Mehdi Hassan Khan breathed heavily as he lay motionless on his hospital bed and the moments ticked away. His dulcet voice had betrayed him as had his body. A major cerebral stroke had left the great maestro paralyzed. The dull
<pRabishankar r Ali Akbar shune bhalo lage bhore kuashay ghore phirte</p One of the reasons why I liked the legendary song from Mohiner Ghoraguli was this last line. To me it was an intense imagery I could relate to, a reality which was a part of
It doesn’t require one to be a Sherlock Holmes to figure out these days on how the Dance of Democracy in India is often hijacked by unfair poll means. Despite the Election Commission being stricter than ever in poll bound states this year, yet the
Memories of revolutionary Rashbehari Bose may have faded from the minds of middle class Bengali, but Rashbehari Avenue and its neighbourhood still calls for one of the most important poll constituency of Kolkata. Talk to the auto drivers crowding in the auto stands from Rashbehari
What does the acronym OTT mean? OTT (over-the-top) is a means of providing television and film content over the internet at the request of subscribers. The term ‘over-the-top’ implies that a content provider is going over the top of existing internet services. If treated scientifically
It is not uncommon for leaders belonging to various political parties to think of themselves as royalty every time elections roll around. It is perhaps not entirely unjustified either. Because once the votes have been counted, many among them become arbiters of the destinies of
As a lot of hue and cry was raised last week with Central government proposing to reduce interests on small savings schemes, and then re-withdrawing the instruction, West Bengal silently scripted a tale of success, a success that keeps the middle class and lower middle
It’s said that Behala has a history older to Kolkata and was born even before Kolkata’s birth. Brimming with a population that is a confluence of original residents of West Bengal and a size-able population from East Bengal, who came and settled here, today’s demography
T“here has been a significant relocation of global manufacturing units followed by a restructuring of global trade in the past two decades. It seems that both in terms of quantum as well as in that of mode of participation in the global production process the