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Metro-logical Kolkata

I am here again to key in a few words on the Metro railway service in Kolkata. The metro service has indeed improved a lot since the bedlam broke loose situation we had to encounter shortly after the extension of the line. The crowd is still very much there, but the service is better.
However, if […]

It is such a secret place the land of tears

“It is such a secret place the land of tears.” At that line, I stopped reading “The Little Prince”. I was on a train and I was afraid, I might just start crying. The land of tears is a secret place and I could not possibly bring it out to light. At that time however, […]

17 years ago

17 years ago on this day, the 6th of December, my school declared a holiday for the coming three days and I came home earlier than I used to, on normal days. When I asked my dad what this was all about, I was told, certain people had pulled a certain Babri Masjid to the […]

There was a bandh and vandalism

BJP - the party famous for its vandalism, religious fundamentalism and lack of reason, had called a bandh on the 30th of November. Since it was BJP, clearly the most powerless party in the state, none of us were prepared for so much as a stir on the streets. But what awaited us was something […]