"Debraj, I didn't believe that I would be able to walk this long in this heat" said Uttara Chakrabarty. Senior Citizen. Teacher in the History ...
10:44 PM, Apr 11, 2013
The counter argument to narrow mindedness is missing From the Grand Mufti's fatwa against the all-girl band in Kashmir, to the now lifted ban ...
09:56 AM, Feb 13, 2013
Dear Delhi, I belong here. Please let me feel safe in my own home. Speaking strictly from whatever little experience of life I have ...
01:01 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Dear Mamata-Di, Let me at the very outset express a sneaking admiration for the manner in which you have proved your critics wrong yet ...
12:01 AM, Sep 21, 2012
Drug of choice? Sari! Ever since I entered Presidency College, Kolkata, and heard on the grapevine that the dress code was sari and jhola, my ...
12:52 PM, Jul 06, 2012
In my last blog post I talked about the crumbling beauty of Calcutta. For me, personally, it was an attempt to get reacquainted with the ...
02:09 PM, Jun 30, 2012
Last night I came back from a breathless visit to Calcutta, the city where I spent 17 years, including my most formative ones. Middle school, ...
12:52 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Summer vacations are a very complicated time for parents nowadays. Should one send one's daughter to a Vedic Maths class? Is one's son old enough ...
12:03 PM, Jun 11, 2012
The whole of last week I was angry, but not in a belligerent kind of way. Even now something in me is simmering ...
04:33 PM, Jun 06, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's unbridled joy at the Kolkata Knight Riders winning the fifth season of the Indian Premier League was ...
01:11 PM, May 31, 2012
No one manages a party quite like West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. She proved that again on Tuesday at the Eden Gardens. The city ...
03:15 PM, May 29, 2012
As part of covering one year of the Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool Government in West Bengal, we at CNN-IBN thought it a good idea to ...
04:59 PM, May 20, 2012
Kings XI Punjab skipper Adam Gilchrist thinks the IPL is gradually becoming a league of 'haves' and 'have-nots' - is his concern realistic, or is ...
11:54 AM, May 09, 2012
When Kolkata Knight Riders decided not to retain Sourav Ganguly ahead of the re-auction in 2011, there was a lot of chaos. Cricket fans in ...
07:47 AM, May 07, 2012
Nothing compares to the flair that Pakistan players bring to a cricket field. It's not much different to the swagger of a Vivian Richards, the ...
11:49 AM, May 06, 2012
The TRP ratings may not say so, but going by the attendances recorded at the stadiums across the country, the Indian Premier League is back, ...
08:50 AM, May 01, 2012
Most people I meet generally have two kinds of queries regarding the commercial aspects of IPL. Some wonder how the franchises, which dole out millions ...
09:14 AM, Apr 12, 2012
'How can a mother of two leave behind her children and go to a bar to drink?' 'She is a divorcee, she drinks beer, ...
12:47 PM, Feb 18, 2012
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Fires have become synonymous with the city of Kolkata. Since 2008, 10 major fires have broken out in the heart of the city. But why ...
07:16 PM, Dec 16, 2011
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It was a little before 6 am. I got a call. There was a fire at AMRI. My mother woke up next to me asking ...
01:15 PM, Dec 15, 2011
