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HIV/AIDS– when stigma kills people!!!

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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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From the United States of America: Part 3: Return to India

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Firstly a big sorry for not being able to come up with something for long as quite a number of things were happening together. But as it goes, better late than never, I thought of concluding my long awaited 3rd part of the so called travelogue.  I ended the From the United States of America: [...]

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Raichak Long Drive-Part 1:The Preparation

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On a certain Friday in April 2011 I was standing, rather getting roasted under the scorching sun’s rays in a certain bus-stop when Aniruddha Mittra aka Ching, The Voyager in my Gang, called up. ‘Shon T ei Sunday free rakhis, Baba ke bole gari ta arrange korchi, amra long drive e berobo for the whole [...]

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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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Electronic Cigarettes: New Hope for Smokers?

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When Rahul Roy Chowdhury, my bosom friend from school, told me over phone about his plans to launch electronic cigarettes in the Indian market a year ago, I din’t take him seriously. While he kept saying that it was going to be a big leap from conventional cigarettes, I was confused and found it hard to [...]

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Facebook: to leave or not to leave?

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Dear lord! What is this? Is this thing meant for the visually impaired? – Mayukh De, on the New Facebook Profiles. Well if you ask me, I kind of like the profile summary that sits at the top. Languages I speak is also a welcome addition. But the design is a #FAIL! Apart from the [...]

Anatomy Teachers in Calcutta of the Seventies

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The teaching of anatomy was taken very seriously in our student days. The first two years were devoted to its study, a daily lecture being supplemented by a three hour dissection stint during the afternoons and many classes on osteology, viscera and surface marking. Many of us used to enjoy the grind; the knowledge of [...]

Jaywalker Diaries 3: Of Facebook and the “Like”

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One common trend that I have noticed on Bong-Buzz is that the Buzzers are quite inspired by Ektaa KKappooorrr (did I get the numerology correct?) – and we have so many awesome serials which touch upon Love stories, bedtime stories and school-time stories (when I say awesome, I actually mean it – me ain’t no [...]

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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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