Brishti Chatterjee My friend Paru (aka Parvati) and her brother Praddu (short form for Prahlad) used to stay in front of our house. We stay in flat 401 and they stayed in flat 402. Though they shifted to Kerala, we remember them as very good friends. They have kept their house, neither sold it nor have they rented it out. Every year they come to …

Monolina Bhattacharyya Sei Somoy…those days or those times! Yes, those were the days. Most of us who have gone beyond “those days” live in a mental capsule where time has become frozen memory. We re-live, cherish, reminisce, and remember…those days… in our gatherings in a plush living room in north America over a glass of wine or scotch. Gone are the carefree days, as we …

Aindrila Chatterjee Working in a business school I come across quite a few management jargons in daily life. One such term is value creation. The definition of value creation says it is the performance of actions that increase the worth of goods, services or even a business. Many business operators now focus on value creation both in the context of creating better value for customers …

Shipra Chaudhury I believe in a whole lot of things – the serenity of the rising sun, the scorching rays of the mid-day sun, and finally the soothing hues of the sinking sun. I believe in the hassle-free simper of a new-born baby, the naughty and boisterous laughter of a young teenager, and finally the tooth-less grin of an old man. I believe in the …

                                                                                               Koyal Roy “Why do you want to find a husband for me, when what I need is a …

Soumalya Chakraborty There’s nothing like a place full of life which suddenly changes to personify death itself. The ever-bustling market presented such a picture this morning. The air was thick with smoke which bore the stench of death and carried the helpless wailing of humanity far and wide. Posters on the wall advertising the latest cinematic release were half burnt. Crumbling walls in desperate need …

Sabyasachi Raychaudhuri After Charminar, the second thing for which people all over India recall Hyderabad, is its biryani. Citizens of no other city can remotely come close to the fascination that we Hyderabadis feel for biryani. We steadfastly refuse even any comparison with the other variants of biryanis in India, let alone accept that they come anywhere close to it in taste. Let us take …

M.K.Chattopadhyay During Biochemistry practical examination of our B.Pharm Part 1 Examination at Jadavpur University, one of our class-mates was asked in the viva-voce: “Why do we prefer animal proteins over vegetable proteins as food? She promptly replied: “Because they are tastier than vegetable proteins,” much to the amusement of the external examiner, The correct answer is related to the fact that all naturally occurring proteins …

Subrata De What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Bolivia was an unknown place for me. Little did I know that this beautiful country of South America blessed with deep forests, springs, high altitude lakes and hills, is at the same time a storehouse of rich mineral deposit of nonferrous …

অঙ্কুর চক্রবর্ত্তী চোখ ছুঁলে নদী হয়, ঠোঁট ছুঁলে জল, মন ছুঁলে কাব্য । তোর কথা বল- চিবুকেতে অভিমান, কুন্তলে শ্বাস, বিভাজিকা, আল-ক্ষেত, জলডোবা ঘাস । গুল্ফেতে ছন্দ, পদতলে তৃণ; চলনেতে লয়কারি- এভাবেই চিনো । পদ্যটা কেড়ে নিলে, কি থাকে হে নারী ? রক্ত-মাংস আর ভাত-তরকারি !   অলংকরণ : অদিতি চক্রবর্ত্তী