My 1st lesson of business: Trust.
It is a human world and we deal with human beings. Business, like any other relation, depends how much one person trusts the other. Yes, there are organisations and protocols but eventually it all [Read more...]
Episodes of my Life
A reluctant photographers Mumbai visit!
My perception of Mumbai has always been of a city which is fast paced with warm but crazy people. This was my third quick visit to this city, second one in this year and the [Read more...]
Year 2015: Necessary choices, welcome consequences.
Like any other year, I write this note in an introspection of the year 2015 that’s going to end, the various hits and the various misses, the people who have helped me and the way forward. I’m on [Read more...]
Remembering Thamma (Grandmother).
- My grandmother, Thamma as I used to call her, was perhaps my first friend. When my mother used to be away with my sister for her music/dance class or perhaps her tuition classes, I sneaked into [Read more...]
How important is one’s class 12 result ?
Saimantick exclaimed, "It's the 18th that I dread. Not anything else. ISC results are going to be out." I laughed at it explaining to him how scared I was during this phase, back in 2007. He told me [Read more...]
Bloggers Meet and Discussion at US Consul Gen’s house
If last Sunday saw 37 bloggers from varied genres and age groups come meet to exchange views, the Monday next saw 10 professional digital content creators being invited to the Consul General of the [Read more...]
Murshidabad: Hazar duari and around.
One of the chief attractions in Murshidabad is the Hazarduari complex. I would not write about the history of the Hazarduari palace as my knowledge is particularly limited to the Wikipedia [Read more...]
Yet another scribbling.
Some idle time by the side of the river watching the children play, the ducks walk around, the daily labourers smoking marijuana and ranting about their daily life. It was still warm after the sun [Read more...]
Kolkata Christmas Carnival and my experience 2013
I've a lot to say. Let me try organising my thoughts. 24th evening till 25th December midnight - was some crazy time. Not as crazy as my Maha-Kumbh experience, but just next to it. And now, what was [Read more...]
The Statesman Vintage Car Rally Kolkata 2013
Achira Dasgupta | Monday 14 January 2013, Kolkata About the Vintage Car Rally 2013. Photographs: Anirban Saha , Saikat Das, Aishwarya Das, Akshay Deep, Koustav Ghosh, Ranjurima Das, Sayon Kumar [Read more...]