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The Kolkata Bloggers Meet is making news

Blog route to big bucks
Karo Christine Kumar
The Telegraph: 24 August 2009
“If you have good knowledge about a subject and are willing to share it, you can easily blog. For example, living in Calcutta, I can start a blog on the city and places to visit here,” says Pallavi Banerjee, 26, who blogs at myselfpallavi.com.
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New York - the Good, bad and their perspectives

Kabir Khan’s New York is a brave movie and a realistic one at that. It is the story of 3 New Yorkers as the promos have already told you; and how the 9/11 attack on manking changes their lives forever. If that sounds like a cliche to you, I’ll tell you it is, but never […]

Ad-vantages

Television ads always meant a lot to me in my growing years. Though I didn’t quite understand the fineries of the advertising trade then, I always loved the stories they told. Sometimes they were about the an office worker who was bullied by his colleagues because his shirt was not white enough; and then one […]

Dear Ole Olypub

Olypub is a pilgrimage for all those who love - beer, beef, Kolkata and life. Its a truly old place - one of those that emit the ‘old is gold’ feeling quite strongly. Old low black leather sofas, equally old ACs and cobwebbed pedestal fans and a loyal band of clientele who drop in in […]

Election and I

As a kid, the election day for me told the story of deprevation and betrayal. My parents, who always took me along wherever they went, dressed up and went out together, to come back after some time with the mark of dark blue ink on their left forefingers. All I knew was they went to […]