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BLT Diaries-Random thoughts
es.wordpress.com 23 hrs ago
I am sitting in a much fancier hotel in Calcutta while I type this. We (my team for now that is) is going to some place by the Ganges called Falta tomorrow and so today my sales officer and I lugged my suitcase, my bag and myself and him into a state transport bus, got down bag baggage because it...
Twin identity: Bengal stripe, Madras check
indiatimes.com 18 hrs ago
22 May, 2008, 0000 hrs IST,Reshmi R Dasgupta, Who would have thought that a Bengali would feel utterly at home in far away Chennai? First, I’m talking about Madras, not Chennai, for the link I found was with Calcutta, not Kolkata. The common thread of colonial rule that bound the three...
bally 1973 hi lo ace
gamehourz.com yesterday
By: Pin Geek - I know this is a different game, but my Williams '78 World Cup was once a parts game, well, almost wound up that way. I got some good boards, got the game to boot up and play, but it would reset I think when you hit the flippers. Drove me crazy. The culprit: a couple fibers from a...
Vijay Tendulkar: 1928-2008
business-standard.com May 19, 2008 47 related
Many years ago, watching a performance of Sakharam Binder in Calcutta, I heard someone in the audience say, "What kind of play is this? The language is so plain, the characters are so vulgar ? where is the upliftment?"??"Where is the upliftment": indeed, that was often how the Indian...
Zomby Goes to Calcutta (Or Kolkata, Depending)
resurrectionsong.com May 20, 2008
I’ve made my travel arrangements and half of my hotel arrangements, and now I’m looking for advice. I’ll be in Calcutta from November 4th to November 11th, with free time from the 8th to the 10th. Just three days, which seems far too short--but since I’ll be on vacation the week before, at the...
Time To Junk Internationalism?
robertlindsay.blogspot.com May 19, 2008
My comments follow. So Indians would recreate Calcutta in the US and Mexicans would recreate Mexico City in the US.An excellent reason to make the immigration process highly rigorous, time-consuming, and difficult with much rejection of potential immigrants who do not make the cut is to insure...
12 dead as rural elections end in Bengal
upi.com May 19, 2008 1 related
MURSHIDABAD, India, May 18 (UPI) -- Violence between supporters of the Congress Party and the Communist Party of India killed 12 people Sunday as rural elections ended in Bengal. Most of the deaths were in Murshidabad, a longtime Congress stronghold about 150 miles from Calcutta, The Calcutta...
BSNL rolls out plans for challenged
business-standard.com May 18, 2008
The local arm of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), Calcutta Telephones, celebrated World Telecommunications and Information Society Day-2008by launching schemes for disabled and senior citizens. S K Chakraborty, chief general manager of BSNL Calcutta Telephones, said BSNL was thinking of employing...
The new cutting edge courses
hindu.com May 18, 2008
Newer branches of engineering, distinct from the core ones that have existed for a long time, have been gaining increasing attention. Some of the institutions offering the course are the Indian Institute of Technology; Kharagpur; the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi;...
Dreams washed out
expressindia.com May 17, 2008
18 years ago, when a mud dam came up in Punjab’s Kandi area, the villagers thought it was the answer to their water worries. Next morning, we found the dam washed away,” says Bachna Ram, sarpanch of Krondewal village in the Kandi area of Punjab. That was 18 years ago but the story of the damaged...