CALCUTTAĀ -THE CITY THAT REFUSES TO DIEĀ Ā
Nowhere else in India do people engulf you as they do in Calcutta. From the moment you step off your train or plane, and begin…
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CALCUTTA’S INDIANS TAKE ELECTIONS IN STRIDE
21 November 1989Ā Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1989 Reuters LimitedĀ Calcutta, Nov 21, Reuters – The six Bengalis splashing around a fire hydrant inches from…
Commonwealth chief says African democracy growingĀ
20 March 1997Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, March 20 (Reuter) – Democracy has taken root in most African countries but…
“I came under her spell,” says Teresa’s biographer
Reuters NewsĀ 5 September 1997Ā EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ Ā NEW DELHI, Sept 6 (Reuters) – An Indian bureaucrat who wrote two biographies of Mother…
‘Our Way Of Lifeā
Weāre a long way from solving Britainās race riddle QUITE A few of my trips to London have been shadowed by death, or the portent…
CALCUTTA IS FOEVER
Thirty years ago, a dishevelled man leaned across and shouted at me in the smoke-filled, raucous Olympia bar on Calcutta’s Park Street: “Calcutta is forever!”…
KILLING ME SOFTLY
He took a deep breath of air. Once again he caught a strangeness on the wind, neither pleasant nor unpleasant, neither odour nor perfumeājust strange,…
APOCALYPSE NOW
Kanpur, Faridabad, Varanasi, Gaya, Patna, Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Muzaffarpur. Nine of the world’s ten most polluted cities listed by the World Health Organization are in…
THE AIR IS THICK
The Good news is that both the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress seem to have finally woken up to the looming catastrophe of air pollution…