At last after long requisitions and picketings, Bengal’s gonna get some relief to be able to share it’s alltime burden of increasing no.of patients everyday among not only the shabby dilapidated buildings and dank smelly rooms of state medical colleges, but also a brand new private medical college in the state, in the midst of [...]

If not for the similarity in name, Tara Tiny is priced at Rs. 99000! Tata Nano has a price tag of Rs. 1 lakh. And both the cars are coming from Bengal! The Tara factory is located at Palta near Kolkata. So much for the similarities. Now the main difference - the Tara engine [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hey friends, if you are a Calcuttan & if you have some interest in films and theatres then you must have heard about the famous Star Theatre, in north Calcutta near Sobhabazar. And guess what, its all set to touch people’s heart again as it did earlier…but this time with ‘Cinemas’… Recently I went there [...]