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While commencement of under-17 soccer world cup is in the corner, Indian Football fraternity is all gearing up for the mega event. It is such a gala event not only for India but for all football playing nation across the globe that all attention related to the event are going to converge upon us, if not already happened, as to how we are going to deal with it. It is such a pleasure to see India as organizer of events of such magnitude and All India Football Federation can certainly deserve accolades for that. Barring handful, football fans across the country was long rueing the fact that they have been deprived of firsthand experience of world class soccer.  It is not very long that with globalisation and media boom, people are being able to make feast of football bonanza across the globe by watching it on television or internet and-so-forth.  A country which craves its love for football since 1893, pre-independence era, and where victory of local soccer team over their ...

Proud Indians, as we are, celebrated our 71 st Independence Day. Upholding the tricolour of largest democracy on earth for 70 long years and continue to do so, really speaks for our culture, heritage and most importantly values imbibed by our ancestors. While ‘celebrating’ this Independence Day, we must not forget the toiling that has been put into for the cause. So, the onus is onto us to carry the heritage forward to our generation next. Democracy, with all its limitations, is a process in itself, incessant practise of which keeps it refining with passing time. India, from the country that ravaged by the British rule for two hundred years to become a country of reckoning power in world today has voyaged considerably. During this course though, we have faced numerous snags but we kept on marching.  The Brits, while leaving our land, planted a poison tree called communalism and the fruit it yielded was Pakistan. Thousands of families became homeless and gutted during partiti...

Another edition (10 th ) of IPL has passed by. Mumbai Indians won the coveted trophy deservingly. Our very own Kolkata Knight Riders failed to rise to our expectations. We, Calcuttans are lamenting, naturally. Afterall, we are sports loving fraternity and when it comes to cricket, our passion goes overboard. When cricket conjugates with Bollywood, especially a star as big as Mr. Shah Rukh Khan, the whole scenario becomes frenzied. Unfortunately, achievements by a Bengal Tigress, in the field of sports, with its aura spread across global platform got eclipsed in this frenzy. The journey of Jhulan Goswami, a simple Bengali Girl from a very humble background to the pinnacle of world of cricket is simply outstanding and deserves special accolades. It is more so, as anyone associated with our society will admit what an uphill task it is to pursue a dream as expensive as playing cricket, specially being a woman. Thousands of hindrances fangs out and creates innumerable hurdles on the w...

As far as prospect of respectable job is concerned, Calcutta is seriously having a dearth of it. By respectable job, it may be interpreted as, jobs, which can earn you your bread, while you apply your level of calibre. On the other hand, employers often find themselves in a situation, where they find it hard to track down eligible and worthy candidate for their requirement. It may sound paradoxical, but a detail assessment of the situation will reveal that, there are many reasons, like lesser number jobs with regard to eligible candidate or sometimes it is more a case of overestimation on one’s part about their propriety which leads to failure of finding each other. It is another case that the cream of the crop is running away, towards more lucrative carrier in other States, since those top notch employers are ambivalent to turn up to our State.  But this article though, is not about discussing these issues, since there are many wise men capable of discussing upon these issue...

The decision of demonetisation of Rs.1,000 & Rs.500 by the Government of India, in order to fight corruption, black money and cross border terrorism issues and its impact on Indian economy has become the talk of the town for the last few days and rightly so. Some are airing their voice for the move and few are against the move. Let the debate go on beyond the petty political agendas and their flag bearers across the country. But what made me to scribble my thought in this blog is the observation of uncontrolled frenzy and consequent ruckus which is occurring around amongst the people, in spite of every measures taken by the authority, which meant to educate citizens about do’s and don’ts of this particular situation. Probably, every possible way has been ventured by the Government of India, be it electronic media, digital media, print media and so on, to communicate to the citizens that there is no need to get trepid about the situation, though the currencies (Rs.500 & Rs...

Often, things apparently sounding very simple can become very complex when trying to actually explain. What is right & what is wrong? One can argue that whatever morally correct is right and the otherwise is wrong. It sounds good, but when delving a little deeper into the subject, things become convoluted. The term morality, in itself can lead you to labyrinth of many opinions where everyone can have their own perspective of it and thereby sending you to an endless loop. Human beings, coming from different socio economic classes, different geographical barriers have their own perspective for what is morally right or what is morally wrong. Even for an individual, definition of right and wrong keeps on changing with time. Someone, brought up with certain inculcated values accepted as righteous may find it completely otherwise in the course of his journey called life.  Then again, the question arises, who’ll decide the acceptability of his or her findings. If the ans...

Is it justifiable, even if a large number of people go frenzy over a Govt. sponsored accolade, on a working day in the middle of a city center? The city, which is also  happened to be the capital city of a state which is ever struggling to establish an exemplary work culture. Of course, one should not undermine the magnitude of the achievement and moreover its inspirational effect on the society, since primarily it was a govt. sponsored event and all the highest dignitaries were present on behalf of the govt. Kolkata Knight Riders aka KKR, a cricket franchise has won the Indian Premier League 7 aka IPL7 ! ! ! Detractors (!) even opine that, the whole idea of IPL is pure entertainment extravaganza, foiled by cricket, albeit, it is neither domestic nor international cricket tournament.  Now, is KKR a state team?  The answer is no. Are they or will they promote emerging Bengal cricketers? Apparently, both the answers seem to be negative. Are they bringi...