The human body is compressible, and although lacking all sense of biology, the mini-bus conductors are well aware of this fact. So between 9 to 11 in the morning a hundred such human bodies are compressed into the 12 inch by 20 inch tin boxes.
The technique is to pile the bodies towards the back [...]

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The only event in the Kolkata weather is the monsoon. It comes fully equipped with smoke and dust and dead, dried leaves. The dust enters your hair and your nose and you run indoors from the storm. The grey nimbus clouds are like poison- dark and cool. These are not the white cotton clouds you [...]

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I was presented with a “Thakumar Jhuli” on my 7th birthday. (For those of you who do not know what that is, go to Wikipedia…no, actually…if you are shameless enough to not know what “Thakumar Jhuli” is, then go kill yourself.) There were the regular “Lal Kamal ar Nil Kamal” stories. But the one story [...]

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I don’t know how many of you have already done this…but all of should go to www.wikimapia.com and check it out. It’s something like Google-Earth…basically you can zoom into any part of the world real close. You can identify your house, college…it’s pretty cool! I got so excited the first time I saw it…I [...]

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“Neti buri kunji kore, ghuchkun munu tu. Badur bachcha, badur bachcha, nyat ba cha-chang chang.”
I’m sure most bongs in every hemisphere has heard that sometime in their lives. In my family it is used as a mantra of endearment and as I’m a ‘lovely kid’ I hear it almost daily, and get over-doses of it [...]

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