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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‘Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na’: Major Disappointment

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Watched the all new much-hyped Anjan Dutt-movie Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na (official website) with Rajarshi, Saurav and Chandradeep at Priya Cinema this evening. Heard such raving reviews about it but the movie is hardly upto the mark! A good dose of antlami, a generous serving of Anjan’s melodrama and his love for the charm of Kolkata, [...]

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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, [...]

THE GOLDEN PLATE of Health Services in West Bengal

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“West Bengal witnessed a 4 day strike Of all junior doctors in Kolkata” “Inhumane face of doctors in West bengal” has been the staple diet for the media in West Bengal.

Is it not time that we find out what is the cause behind such strikes taking place in all parts of West Bengal. The cause is exactly what the Govt takes pride in – West Bengal is a state which provides maximum heath care in the governement sector. But is it health that is provided in state medical colleges or care that is provided??? [...]

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, [...]

Confessions of a Bong-Buzzed Female

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I had been up since 1 a. m. (don’t ask…I’m an ‘insomaniac‘…yeah, I know that the politically correct term is ‘insomniac‘…but doesn’t ‘insomaniac‘ make more sense? I mean it is a mania after all…a disorder, an illness, to not be able to sleep). I was fiddling around on my phone, reading SKC’s old messages, thanking [...]