Biswajeet Banerjee Korbo, Lodbo Harbo Re
My eight year old son is a hard-core Kolkata Knight Rider”s fan. Despite this team having a long losing streak he clings to this team like a monkey clings to…
The City of Joy
Ten is an impressionable age and Kolkata (for me still Calcutta) is a fascinating city. With the given promises there could be only one conclusion love at first sight. I…
The Foot Soldiers
The other day Tim Sullivan, Chief of the South-Asian bureau of Associated Press, asked me What Rahul Gandhi does for his living. The question blew at my face. I never…
The Boozers’ Gang
I love joining boozer”s group – not because I am a heavy drinker but I enjoy the post-drink session. I enjoy the exchange of words sometimes hot and sometimes spicy…
Death in Cradle
Indian polity has always flummoxed me. Each and every Khadi clad leader could be seen shouting from his rooftop about desisting from communal and casteist politics. Come elections, and these…
Oops! Blog
The word Blog always enticed me. Being from a small city of Lucknow, capital of north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, I always wanted to know what it was exactly.…
Unmukt Effect
In this cricket crazy country called India every child wants to become cricketer. And when my 10 year-old son Joy said that he too wants to be cricketer I was…
Apologizing for an Apology
This is a story of those golden days of journalism when editorial was supreme, not like present days when marketing people call the shot. In those days marketing people used…
Death in the Skirt
“Skirt in the valley of the death of two children die from drowning”, read the first line of the report sent by Lakhimpur Correspondent. Two children died of drowning in…
Life and Toilet
The other day I read a news about 13 people, including 10 women, being mowed down by a speeding truck in Etawah when they were returning home after answering a…