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Self-shot video using a Nokia C3-00. Captured the fireworks on a Calcutta street during the immersion procession of the idol of the Goddess Kali

2011-11-07T16:55:00.001+05:30

Self-shot video using a Nokia C3-00. Captured the fireworks on a Calcutta street during the immersion procession of the idol of the Goddess Kali

2011-11-07T16:51:00.002+05:30

English to Hindi Translations

2011-10-13T13:40:00.000+05:30

Big B had said in "Namak Halal", "English is a very funny language." Well, the same can be said about Hindi too. Especially, "Shuddh" Hindi. There are some absolutely absurd words in Hindi, which although literally correct, are never used in real life situations.

Below is a list of commonly used English words with their literal translation in Hindi.

(Statutory Warning: I shall not be held responsible, in case any reader breaks her/his teeth while trying to pronounce or memorize a word!)

Cricket: Gol Guttam Lakad Battam De Danadan
Cricket Test Match: Pakad Dandu, Maar Mandu, De Danaadan Pratiyogita
Table Tennis: Lakdi Ke Phalak Kshetra Pe Le Takaatak De Takaatak or Chowpaiya Ke Upar Batti Ke Niche, De Fatafat Le Fatafat
Lawn Tennis: Harit Ghaas Par Le Tada Tad, De Tada Tad
Light Bulb: Vidyut Prakashak Kanch golak
Traffic Signal: Aavat Jaavat Suchak Jhandaa
Tea: Dugdh Jal Mishrit Sharkara Yukt Parvatiya (Pahaadi) Booti
Train: Louh Path Gaamini Sahasra Chakrawali Shakat
All Route Pass: Yatra Tatra Sarvatra Gaman Aagya Patra
Railway Signal: Loh Path Gamini (Agni Rath) Aawagaman Suchak Yantra
railway station : loh path gamini aawat javat vishram sthal
Mosquito: Gunjanhaari Manav Rakt Pipasu Jeev
Toilet Flush: Kiye Karaye Par Paani Fenk Dene Wala Yantra
Cigarette: Shweta Patra Mandit Dhumra Shalakha
Tie: Kanth Langoti
Match Box: Ragdampatti Agni Utpaadan Peti
Button: Ast Vyast Vastra Niyantrak

I will update this list as and when I can find out more such words. Meanwhile, have a smile on your lips. :)

Shovon Chakraborty thanks you. Please get in touch with Shovon Chakraborty for any suggestions.

The Trial By Experience

2011-10-08T16:58:00.000+05:30

A motorist was on trial for hitting a pedestrian.

The motorist's lawyer made this point: "Your honor, my client has been driving for over thirty years."

To which the lawyer for the plaintiff retorted, "Your honor, if we are going to judge this case by experience, may I remind you that my client has been walking for over fifty years."

Murphy's Laws for Frequent Flyers

2011-07-19T00:39:00.002+05:30

Well ... err... by this time we know that sh!# happens and quite a good amount of money can be made out of it in the process. And, when it comes to talking about shit, I mean, SH!#, Murphy has the sole proprietorship for devising all those laws. Here is a look at Murphy's Laws for Frequent Flyers:

1. No flight ever leaves on time unless you are running late and need the delay to catch the flight.

2. If you are running late for a flight, it will depart from the farthest gate within the terminal.

3. If you arrive very early for a flight, it inevitably will be delayed.

4. Flights never leave from Gate #1 at any terminal in the world.

5. If you must work on your flight, you will experience turbulence as soon as you touch pen to paper or finger to keyboard.

6. If you are assigned a middle seat, you can determine who has the seats on the aisle and the window while you are still in the boarding area. Just look for the two biggest passengers.

7. Only passengers seated in window seats ever have to get up to go to the lavatory.

8. The crying baby on board your flight is always seated next to you.

9. The best-looking woman on your flight is never seated next to you.

10. The less carry-on luggage space available on an aircraft, the more carry-on luggage passengers will bring aboard.

I have experienced empirical proofs to most of these laws. In first person!

Appraisal Discussion

2011-01-02T12:49:00.004+05:30

An awesome video on Human Resource practices. I simply love this one and thought of sharing with everyone who would care to view this. Simply awesome and hilarious! Enjoy madi!!

Top Rajnikanth Jokes .. err... Facts Part 2!

2010-12-16T10:26:00.003+05:30

I have to agree that Rajnikanth jokes are much more popular than his movies. After all, an average person like me probably would have seen only a few Rajni movies (in my case, its 3 to be precise), but would have received hundreds, if not thousands, Rajnikanth Jokes through mail or sms. Here's the second installment of the top Rajnikanth jokes.

1. Rajnikanth can charge his charger with his mobile.

2. The missing piece of the Apple Inc.'s logo was eaten by Rajnikanth!

3. When Rajnikanth wants to go abroad, he jumps up from the terrace of his house and waits for the Earth to spin.

4. Intel's new tagline, "Rajnikanth inside!"

5. Once Dinosaurs borrowed money from Rajnikanth and refused to pay him back. That was the last time we heard about the Dinosaurs.

6. Once while having hookah, Rajnikanth made a smoke ring. It went in to the space and is now known as the *Ring of the Saturn*.

7. Rajnikanth's pulse is measured in the Richter Scale.

8. Rajnikanth can speak in Braille.

9. Rajnikanth was once practicing for a Spelling Bee contest. The rough sheets he used are today known as the Oxford dictionary.

10. Rajnikanth can draw a circle with a ruler.

11. Amma, "Beta Rajni, apne solar heater se garam pani nahi aa raha hain."

Rajnikanth, "Yanna Raskala. Ruko amma. Main abhi Suraj ko thik karke aata hoon."

12. Ek khaufnaak andheri raat ke 12 baaje ek Bhoot dusre Bhoot ko samjha raha tha, "Ghabra mat. Yeh sab tera dimaag ka vahem hain, koi Rajnikanth - vajnikanth nahi hota."

13. Rajnikanth's next project has been announced. Its going to be a remake of Titanic in Tamil. Only, the climax has been changed. Both the Hero and Heroine survive along with all the people on board. Rajni swims the Atlantic with the Heroine in one hand and Titanic in the other.

14. Galileo used lamp to study. Graham Bell used candles to study. Shakespeare & Vidyasagar studied under the street light. But Rajnikanth used only *Agarbatti* to study!

15. One day Rajnikanth got angry and kicked his sweeper boy. The boy went flying in the sky with his broom in the hand. We now know him as *Harry Potter*.

As and when I get hold of more such gems, I promise to compile and upload another list.

Top Rajnikanth Jokes .. err... Facts!

2010-12-16T09:47:00.004+05:30

Statutory Warning:

"All the jokes in this post have been compiled and collected from secondary sources and does not, in any way, represent the view of the publisher of this blog."

The above bit was necessary to protect me from the wrath of Rajni Anna. :)

Here goes the first list of top Rajnikanth jokes -

1. Rajinikanth doesn’t wear a watch. He decides what time it is.

2. Rajinikanth has already been to Mars, that’s why there are no signs of life there.

3. Rajinikanth killed the dead sea.

4. If you spell ‘Rajanikant’ wrong on Google it doesn’t say, “Did you mean Rajinikanth?” It simply replies, “Run while you still have the chance.”

5. Rajinikanth can play the violin with a piano

6. Rajnikanth once wrote a cheque without having sufficient balance in the account. The bank bounced!

7. Micheal Jordan to Rajini, "I can spin a ball on my finger for over two hours. Can you?"

Rajni, "Rascala; how do you think the earth spins!?"

8. Rajinikanth once ordered a plate of Idli in McDonald’s, and got it.

9. If Rajnikant was born 100 years earlier, British would have fought to get independence from India.

10. When Rajnikant logs on to facebook.com, facebook updates its status message!

11. Rajni once killed 20 men just by saying "BANG"

12. Rajinikanth knows Victoria’s secret.

13. Rajinikanth can divide by zero.

14. Rajinikanth has counted to infinity. Twice!

15. When Rajinikanth gives you the finger, he's telling you how many seconds you have left to live.

16. When Rajnikanth pokes you on Facebook, you start bleeding.

17. Rajnikanth has a terrace in his basement.

18. Rajnikanth got shot at yesterday. Today is the bullet's funeral!

19. Once Rajnikanth kicked a donkey on the chin. Its descendants are known as giraffes.

20. Rajnikanth once kicked a football. It now revolves around the Sun and is known as *Pluto*.

More to come...

Chinese chinky English! Hilarious, no offence meant!

2010-08-03T23:54:00.002+05:30

Pre-take off announcement on a China Southern Airlines Flight. This is true account of what was heard on a recent flight from Shenzhen to Qingtao.

Chinese Air Stewardess :
"Good afternoon, Ladies and the German. This is your cheap purser Wang Lui speaking. On behalf of China Sudden Airlines, I would like to waycome you on board our Bowling 737 fom Shenzhen to Qingtao. Members of my kew speak Chinese and other languages that you do not know. It is a great pressure serving you to-die. Should you need any resistance during the fright, peace do pest the call button. I and my gals are available to make you feel comfortable. Meanwhile, the airkwaft is going to fry. Peace sit upright and keep you belt tightly fastened until dinner is served at five dirty p.m.. Hope you would enjoy your fright with us. Funk kill." (thank you)

Meaning of dreams

2010-04-02T12:53:00.001+05:30

A woman awoke excitedly on Valentine's Day and announced enthusiastically to her husband, "I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace for Valentine's day! What do you think it means?"

With certainty in his voice, the man said, "You'll know tonight." That evening the man came home with a small package and handed it to his wife.

With anxious anticipation the woman quickly opened the package to find a book entitled - "The Meaning of Dreams".

Joke: Blonde and the Soda Machine

2010-03-16T11:41:00.001+05:30

A blonde is standing in front of a soda machine outside a local store. After putting in sixty cents, a root beer pops out of the machine.

She set it on the ground, puts sixty more cents into the machine, and pushes another button. Suddenly, a coke comes out the machine!

She continues to do this until a man waiting to use the machine becomes impatient. "Excuse me, can I get my soda and then you can go back to whatever you are doing?"

The blonde turns around and says, "No chance! I'm not giving up this machine while I'm winning!"

Winston Churchill is a defaulter @ Bangalore Club

2010-03-02T02:10:00.002+05:30

Ex-British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill had been a defaulter at Bangalore Club. He failed to repay Rs. 13/- when he was still serving as a Leutanant in the British army. The particular page is kept open near the entrance of the century old club till date. When I visited this club as a guest of our CEO Karthik KS, on 26th February 2010, we took a snap of the concerned page. It is rumored that the British Government wanted to pay back the amount. But the club refused to accept that and as such Churchill's outstanding amount is shown as bad debts.

Cricket match @ Bengaluru

2010-02-27T13:41:00.000+05:30

After a long break of 10 years, I did manage to bowl an over in a corporate match. On the expected lines, the first 5 balls were wides. After that I could manage to bowl 6 deliveries within thr playing zone and to my surprise, someone actually got out too! It was infact, a caught and bowled.

24x7 learning launches for the very first time in India, Global MBA in Media & Entertainment

2009-11-07T19:04:00.004+05:30

True Leadership Style - Winston Churchill way

2009-11-04T22:18:00.000+05:30

The historic speech delivered on 4 June 1940 by Sir Winston Churchill.

"I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.

At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty's Government-every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation.

The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.

Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."

The Maoist menace in India

2009-10-21T21:40:00.007+05:30

Lenin had used the term "useful idiots" to describe the romantic liberals whose hearts were bleeding for the communists, although the latter had only one agenda. The agenda of a violent uprising against the so called corrupt & rotten system. Look, where the people have thrown the Communist Party in Russia.

Likewise, in India, we see an increasing level of the so called intelligentsia rooting for the Maoists. Their basis of support hinges on the theory that the Maoists are pro-poor. They are absolutely wrong! The Maoists are only pro-power.

The intellectuals want that there should first be developmental activities for the poorest of the poor. The state should improve the condition of the people of the country, and the Maoist influence will go away.

Is that assumption correct?

Actually, the Maoists' greatest fear is that, if the state implements the development programs at the grass root level, then they would lose whatever support base that they presently enjoy. That's why, they will never allow any kind of development activities to happen in the hinterlands controlled by them. Otherwise, how can one justify the demolition of school buildings, killing of teachers in full view of his pupils, destruction of telecommunication towers, rail lines etc.?

The intellectuals are actually playing in to the hands of these terrorists. There are also some hard core believers in the Maoist ideology like Binayak Sen, who along with these intellectuals justify the terrorist activities of the Maoists by pointing to the so-called violence perpetrated by the state.

Why the Government of India should use her full might on Maoists?

Firstly, the government can't implement any developmental activities till the Maoist menace is uprooted. Secondly, even if the developmental activities bear their fruit, the Maoists will still remain. Their terrorist activities are not aimed at development of the people, rather they are on a war against the nation, which they view as imperialist and bourgeois. Thirdly and most importantly, Mao was a sworn enemy of India and attacked our country in 1962. So, anyone following his ideology is bound to be an enemy of the Indian state.

There's only one solution. People, who understand the language of the brute force should be dealt with even brutal force.

Joke:::God's Gift to India

2009-10-02T00:37:00.004+05:30

God was in the process of creating the universe. And he was explaining to his subordinates...

"Look everything should be in balance. For example, after every 10 deers there should be a lion. Look here my fellow angels, here is the country of the United States. I have blessed them with prosperity and money. But at the same time I have given them insecurity and tension...

And here is Africa. I have given them beautiful nature. But at the same time, I have given them climatic extremes...

And here is South America. I have given them lots of forests. But at the same time, I have given them lesser land so that they would have to cut off the forests... So you see fellows, everything should be in balance."

One of the angels asked... "God, what is this extremely beautiful country here?". God said....... "Ahah...that is the crown piece of all. "INDIA", my most precious creation. It has understanding and friendly people. Sparkling streams, serene mountains. A culture which speaks of the great tradition that they live. Technologically brilliant and with a heart of gold..."

The angel was quite surprised and said, "But god you said everything should be in balance."

God replied - "Look at the neighbours, I gave them."

Brazilians getting a dose of Ekta Kapoor!

2009-08-14T00:15:00.002+05:30

Now, alcohol cures worms also!

2009-07-24T13:52:00.003+05:30

Dr. Robin was trying to to teach his son the evils of alcohol.

He put a worm in a glass of water and another in a glass of whiskey. The worm in the water lived while the one in the whiskey curled up and died.

"All right, son," Said the good doctor, "what does that show you?"

"Well dad, it shows that if you drink alcohol you will not have worms." :)

ABCD... redefined

2009-07-04T22:37:00.007+05:30

All of you must have read in your kindergarten, that -

A for Apple
B for Ball
C for Cat etc. etc.

How about a new perspective from Keshto Mukherjee?

Read on.

A for Absolut Vodka
B for Bacardi
C for Chivas Regal
D for Director's Special
E for Eight PM
F for (The) Famous Grouse
G for Glenfiddich
H for Heineken
I for Imperial Blue Whisky
J for Johnnie Walker or Jack Daniel's (Depending on which side of the Atlantic you are from. :D)
K for Kingfisher Beer
L for Long John Scotch Whisky
M for McDowell Rum & Whisky
N for Napoleon Extra Old
O for Old Monk Rum
P for Passport Scotch Whisky
Q for Queen Anne Scotch Whisky
R for Royal Salute Whisky
S for Smrinoff
T for Teacher's
U for Uganda Waragi Gin
V for VAT 69
W for White & Mackay
X for XXX Rum
Y for Yamazaki Whisky
Z for Zingaro Beer

How was that? If you are still inquisitive about the different brands being sold in India, you can check this out.

2009-03-22T00:57:00.004+05:30

Sujit Choudhury - Death of a Polymath
by Joydeep Biswas*

Sujit Choudhury (1937-2009) traversed a long journey through the contours of epistemology. History was his professional discipline as he taught in Rabindra Sadan Girls’ College at Karimganj in Southern Assam from 1964 to 1997. But he treaded at ease the varied avenues of literature, folklore, anthropology, mythology, politics, journalism and even film appreciation.

Born to a freedom fighter father, Mr. Bidhubhusan Choudhury, and mother, Mrs. Suprabha Choudhury, in the British-ruled India Sujit Choudhury grew up in a cultured, educated and patriotic ambience. Notwithstanding a modest economic background his father passed the Matriculation Examination in First Division and joined the famous Murarichand College in Sylhet in the Intermediate Course. But Bidhubhusan left the campus midway through to join the Civil Disobedience Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi. This cost him dearly during the tumultuous phase of India’s struggle for freedom as Bidhubhusan was arrested a number of times by the British. He was intermittently in jail for three years and was interned for a few more years. Atrocities of the British Police during incarceration took a heavy toll on his health and his right index finger got so badly damaged by the assault of a police superintendent, Mr. Bromand that he had to adapt to a different pen-grip. Later on Bidhubhusan took to journalism as his professional career. This patriotic and idealist father left an indelible impression on the young mind of Sujit Choudhury.

The Independence of India and the resultant Partition proved to be a curse to the Choudhury family like millions of other Bengali families of the then East-Pakistan. Bidhubhusan along with his family joined the worst exodus in the history of the Sub-continent. They migrated to Karimganj in the erstwhile undivided district of Cachar in the truncated Independent India in 1948 when Sujit Choudhury was an eleven years old boy.

But the memory of the pogrom and fratricidal killing engineered by the Congress-Muslim League leadership in the cunning corridors of contrived history never did fade in Sujit Choudhury. As a matter of fact, the wrong doings of history handed down to the politically migrated Bengali of the East-Pakistan to which Sujit Choudhury himself belonged turned out to be the intellectual motivation for him. He went on to author ‘Srihatta Cacharer Prachin Itihas’ (The Ancient History of Srihatta-Cachar) in Bengali which is a path-breaking work on the compilation of socio-political-economic history of undivided Sylhet-Cachar. Sujit Choudhury ignored the series of redrawings of political map of this otherwise homogenous region from 1874 to 1947 when he captured the fairly uninterrupted history of the area, better known as the twin valleys of the Barak-Surma, from the stand points of anthropology, sociology, culture and historicity.

Professor Choudhury showed enough of his academic interest in ancient Indian history in the light of folklore, mythology, theology and comparative religion. Here he subscribed to the School of Left historians of India under the aegis of the Indian History Congress with particular affiliation to the ilk of D D Koshambi, R S Sharma, Romila Thapar, Bipan Chandra and Irfan Habib. His unquestioned scholarship in this genre is manifest in scores of his papers and articles in the highly referred journals, magazines and news papers including Journal of the Folklore Society, Kolkata, Journal of the Ananda Ram Baruah Institute of Language, Art and Culture, Guwahati, Journal of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla, where he was a senior fellow from 1993 to 1995, Journal of the Department of Bengali, University of Gauhati, Pratikshan, Parichay, The Economic and Political Weekly, The Statesman, Mainstream, Point Counterpoint to name a few. His monumental work in this field, of course, is ‘Prachin Bharate Matri Pradhanya: Kingbodontir Punarbichar’ (1990) in Bengali which won him the much coveted Narsingha Das Award of the University of Delhi in 2000.

He was an avid reader with elephantine memory. Inter-disciplinarity was the hall-mark of his intellectual odyssey. North- East India was his special area of interest as we find him authoring ‘Social Background of Mizo Insurgency’ along with ‘Folklore and History: A Study of the Fockcults of the Bengali Hindus of Barak Valley’. During the fag end of his professional career he joined Assam University, Silchar as a Visiting Fellow in the Netaji Centre of Researches on the National Movement.

As alluded earlier here, he just could not confine himself in any particular disciplinary frame. As a result, one would discover him writing prolifically on modern Indian history and contemporary political development. Indian freedom struggle and post-Partition politics in the Sub-continent formed his special choice set where he would find a strong cause to write for. Mutiny Period in Cachar(ed), Barak Upatyakar Samaj O Rajniti (in Bengali) and ‘Dharma, Rajniti O Sampradayikata: Utsao O Patabhumi (in Bengali) bear testimony to his deft flexibility in the inter-disciplinary pedagogy. More than that, however, in such writings he could identify himself as an intellectual crusader against the forces hell-bent on creating divides between man and man in the name of language, caste, creed and religion. The rot in the Indian political culture in the contemporary India not only pained him, he bled profusely in his inner psyche. He could never reconcile himself to the nadir to which Indian polity stooped in his lifetime at the bright backdrop of value-based political culture in which he was brought up. The halcyon days of Indian freedom struggle were vivid in his memory as he saw his idealist father hobnobbing with the stalwarts of Indian politics during his boyhood. As an early teen-ager of the member of a refugee family he stepped into the India of his dream and meditation. Like millions of freedom fighters and like his father he cherished the dream and belief of an Independent India which would be pluralist, democratic and where every Indian will have a shared return of the colossal sacrifice the forefathers had made to liberate the country. But very soon the independent India belied all expectations with the socio-political-economic scenario drifting from bad to worse at an alarming speed. The displaced Bengali populace of Assam and the North-East India soon found themselves at the receiving end of all sorts of deprivations and state repressions. The heroic sacrifices of their fathers and grand-fathers and the pangs of the internal displacement of that generation were all very carefully dumped in the garbage of history by the ruthless Indian State. For no fault of their own the North-East Bengali became ‘foreigners’ in the Grand Indian Political Theatre. As if to add insult to the injury, the linguistic chauvinism of the Government of Assam found its ugliest manifestation with the passage of the Official Language Act 1960 which imposed Assamese as the only official language in a multi-lingual Assam. The people of Barak Valley-then the district of Cachar- condemned this draconian Act. The public outrage soon turned to be a belligerent mass movement in Cachar which left eleven people dead and scores of others injured at police firing at the Railway Station of Silchar on the fateful day of 19 May 1961. The martyrs’ supreme sacrifice did not go unrewarded. In the face of stiff democratic resistance from the people of Cachar the Assam Government became compelled to bring in amendment to the nefarious Official Language Act restoring the legitimate linguistic
right of the Bengali speaking populace of the Valley. But the sinister design of the hegemonic Assam Government has surfaced quite off and on leading to four more young language activists to lay their lives on three more occasions in this Valley during the next three decades. In all those crisis hours Sujit Choudhury rose to the occasion and lent intellectual leadership to the continuing movement. Linguistic resistance movement has become a regular reality in the Barak Valley which always drew its intellectual sustenance from Professor Choudhury. He was an ideologue of the linguistic and cultural umbrella organization, Barak Upatyaka Banga Sahitya O Sanskriti Sammelan, which fights for the democratic rights of the Bengali in Assam and the multi-cultural identity of the State. He was once General Secretary of this apolitical Sammelan which later down the years conferred on him the prestigious Rajmohan Nath Centenary Award for life time achievement in social science research.

But his obsession with the rights and status of the displaced Bengali populace of the North-East did never blur his left-progressive outlook on socio-political issues. He was a true humanist a fact which one would better discover in his valuable writings on Bengali literature. Though he was extra-ordinarily cautious in distancing himself from any claim to authoritative writing on literature, which was his first love any way, scores of papers he had to pen under what he said ‘social obligation’ proved to be real additions to the kitty of Bengali literary criticism. He was an unquestioned expert on Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay, the great 20th century Bengali novelist. One of his scholarly papers has been included in a Sahitya Akademy collection of essays on Bibhutibhusan. He wrote extensively on Bengali prose many of which were published from many Indian universities. In 2004 he received the Sahitya Akademy Award for his excellent translation of the Assamese short stories of Nirmalprabha Bardoloi published from the National Book Trust. His two-part memoirs ‘Harano Din Harano Manush’ (2nd part forthcoming) in Bengali constitute unparallel narrative of the ill-fated Partition in an aesthetically tested prose.

The sudden demise of this polymath on 9 March 2009 in Bangalore, far away from his dear Karimganj, left the Valley in eerie gloom. The intellectual void that his death has created can only be partially filled up if his unfinished agenda find some takers among the young generation of dedicated researchers and scholars in this neglected periphery. Sujit Choudhury, by dint of his towering scholarship and unflinching commitment to the cause he stood for, could successfully make the centre to listen to the periphery. His passing away has now occasioned the posterity to pick the baton. History beckons at this hour. Is any body listening?

*Also available at http://www.dscjournal.co.nr/

Hemant Karkare's last shoot!

2008-11-29T15:55:00.000+05:30

First look at Taj Mumbai after the terror attack

2008-11-29T15:43:00.002+05:30

Marine Commando speaks on the Mumbai terrorist attack

2008-11-29T14:56:00.002+05:30

NSG Chief J. K. Dutt Speaks on Mumbai terror attack

2008-11-29T14:43:00.002+05:30