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…
India relives midnight “tryst with destiny”
14 August 1997Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, Aug 15 (Reuters) – India’s leaders gathered in their parliament’s majestic Central Hall…
India celebrates half-century of independenceĀ
15 August 1997Ā 08:15Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, Aug 15 (Reuters) – India put on a dazzling show of fireworks,…
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!”…
The Rainmaker
The Mac II, launched on March 2. 1987, cost $5.500 and was the first computer with a colour graphical interface. Three years earlier Apple had…
Spoil Of Sycophancy
For all those journalists who think they belong to a thankless and poorly-paid profession, there is hope on the horizon. It comes from the latest…
Laldengaās War-Dance
Events In Mizoram seems to be moving Inexorably towards a resumption of Insurgency The cease-fire agreement, which came into effect at midnight on July 31…
TOO BIG TO FAIL
Independence Day is a good excuse for some economic chest-thumping. We should be proud that lndia is a free-enterprise democracy. Imagine the world’s burden if…