Kolkata

Purono Diner Bari

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Well as you know my training constitutes of all the accounting and auditing work that I got to learn in my 3 years of articleship training. We do not have any office of our own, the firm is located at my boss’s residence. We go around the city from one client’s office to another, verifying, [...]

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The Jews of Calcutta

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Tracking the history of the Jewish population in Kolkata. Following independence, the Jews gradually started flocking out of the city bringing down the population to its present figure of less than 10.

What after the Park Street brawl?

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Police detain army officers accused with misbehaving with a woman and then arrest them as they create a havoc in the police station. Next armed armymen arrive in 3 cars, ransack the police station, thrash policemen and free their men at gunpoint prompting others held up in the lock-up to escape. Notwithstanding the mistake on [...]

Burning not only the dance floor!!!

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Well, it’s Happy new year 2007′ says Minnie, a std. VIII student of a renowned school in da city of joy. Till this point it was not anything surprising, but it became so when Minnie uttered the Max’i, unexpected on da part of her dad Mr.Talukdar, a Clerk in a local co-operative bank. Now wat [...]

The Book Stalls Around Golpark

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I never failed to notice the large stacks of books every time I walked along the footpaths of Golpark. Yet it never really struck me I can actually take those books. Strange of me indeed. After all what are the books doing there other than waiting to be read by readers like me? As this [...]

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