Kolkata

What A Horrible City (and I am not talking about Calcutta)

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Calcutta is known worldwide as a terrible place. The infrastructure is crumbling, there are no proper roads, and the transport system is in a mess and so on. And how has this impression been carried all over the country and the world? Mainly by the efforts of the Calcutta newspapers, media and the self disparaging [...]

A Night to Remember – Part 1

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Life is different in hostel. Though I have been a day scholar (as it is called) throughout my college life, most of my bosom friends used to stay in the hostel at Linton Street, Park Circus. That’s why I was acquainted to hostel life to some extent. Whether it was pre-fest night or post fest afternoon, [...]

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REVIEW: Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na

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Craaaaasssh! That’s the sound Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na has made in my heart after I went to watch it with post-Byomkesh inflated expectations from an Anjan Dutt movie…and that did hurt! Yes the new Anjan Dutt movie did hurt…it hurt my expectations, it hurt my enthusiam for an Anjan Dutt movie, it hurt [...]

An Ode to the Fathers of St. Lawrence

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The school years are the best years as they say! :D And as I look back, let me remember the Fathers we had in St. Lawrence, the great missionaries who renounced material life, came to our country and added so much value to our society. We were one of the last batches to be taught [...]

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Chakachaks

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One evening on a boring weekday as I was waiting for a Ruby bound auto rickshaw to take me home after a tiring day at the client’s office, I suddenly noticed from quite a distance a really thin man selling something from something!! I walked up to him and just as I was going to [...]

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IndiBlogger Kolkata Meet

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Bloggers from Kolkata and other parts of India met up on Sunday in the Kolkata IndiBlogger #AkshayaPatra Meet – organized by IndiBlogger and Akshaya Patra and sponsored by Infinity - and I was there! It was the first ever blogger meet attended by me and let me confess I was a tad skeptical about it. The [...]

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Kolkata Gets Its First Rain of the Decade

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Lucky I am to experience the first rain of the decade in Kolkata. As it is, Chandradeep and I were out on an evening walk at about 6.30, waiting for Rajarshi to join us, when it started to drizzle slightly. It showed no signs of stopping and we got into a cab real quick to [...]

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Has Maddox Square lost its charm?

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During the course of those late-night group chats, thanks to Google, me and my two old buddies, Nipon and Chandradeep were discussing on the aforesaid motion on a highly intellectual note. We ultimately decided to write this on Bong Buzz and poke others to gather opinions and ideas. Maddox Square aka Ballygunge Durga Puja Samiti, [...]

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@TheNewBong-ali

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Sometime back, there was a very interresting article on Bong-Buzz. However, due to some weird reason, everyone seems to have missed it. Basically, Bong-Buzz (BB, hereafter) as a positive step towards gaining much more readership than it presently has, invited an accomplished author to contribute literary niceties to the otherwise well-designed pages. And before the [...]

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New Kid on the Blog!

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Hello! I am the newest member on the Bongbuzz Blog. So, I thought it was only fair that I started with an introduction of myself! Now, although we all have been doing this since we were in class I, or even earlier, in some cases, I still find it an intimidating task to go about [...]

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