July 2009

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Depp Buzz

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For me Johnny Depp has remained that inexplicable Peter Pan image who has painted dream sequences on real life canvases and had me swooning over his casual good-looks at anywhich character that he has played.

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Spurious Accomplish-ments

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The language politics has no longer attempted to keep its adulterous nature under hood and come out with it in the open all undisguised and not at all embarrassed.

To The Night – And Back

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A personal note on the 2009 solar eclipse – the sky turned black and the bhajans could be heard.

A Trip To Dhaka

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I was in Dhaka last week. It was a business trip, but it was an occasion to renew some friendships and to also renew acquaintance with the second great city of Bengal, now unfortunately in two parts, thanks to our own stupidity. The Partition of Bengal was a traversty of history, but the conditions were [...]

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The Newest Sleaze-Flick

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Review of the movie Kambakkht Ishq: The Newest Sleaze-Flick – When Hollywood Meets Bollywood

The Uttar Banga Anath Ashram (North Bengal Orphanage)

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Uma Mallick looks like a normal Bengali Housewife. She wears a standard cotton sari, vermillion on her forehead and travels clinging to her husband’s motorcycle as he whizzes past in Siliguri’s notorious lanes. However she is anything but that. Uma is the founder and the livewire of the Uttar Banga Anath Ashram (North Bengal Orphanage). [...]