Book Review : The Secret Adversary

Kolkatans are enjoying their share of winter this year (while keeping their fingers crossed!). So just like others i planned to enjoy this winter holiday season . And after thinking for sometime, i decided nothing else can be as satisfying as reading a good book. Now i should be honest to you all, especially when i've...

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Smoking is Injurious to 'Wealth'

The picture of charred black lung on the cigarette pack is hardly a deterent when the smokers crave for some quick nicotine fix. But from now, the smokers will have to bear more than Rs. 10,000 a year excluding the cost of cigarettes! This is the amount added to Life Insurance Premium of smokers. Since it is a fact that...

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National Library and The Secret Chamber

History used to be boring when i had to study those books and memorize the dates, back in school days. But after somehow getting over those days, i realized my mistake and believe that history can be pretty much interesting . . well at least some times like the following one. A mysterious room has been discovered in the 250 year old Belvedere House (commonly known as National Library in Kolkata) during the renovation of the building....

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Paul the psychic octopus is no more!

Paul, the Octopus, the favorite sea creature during the last World Cup Soccer has died at the age of 2.5 yrs. Steffan Porwoll, a manger at Oberhausen Sea Life Centre in Germany, where Paul lived and made his famous predictions said that Paul had passed away peacefully during the night, of natural causes. Of course, the...

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Beetle Bailey Turned Sixty!

On this Sept. 4th, Beetle Bailey, one of the most loved comic strip characters and my idol turned sixty. The brainchild of cartoon artist Mort Walker, was first published on Sept. 4th , 1950. The story is set in a fictional US army camp 'Swampy' where Beetle joined after he left his college and got enrolled with the Army...

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Get your Address Proof from Post Office

The Indian Postal Department is now issuing address cum identity proofs. To get the postal identity cards you have to make an application on prescribed form for Rs. 10/- and submit it with a fee of Rs. 240/- in the nearby Head Post office, as not all the post offices are providing this service. Once you have submitted...

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Subsidized!

How much would it cost you to have a Dosa at your local fast food shack? Rs. 20/- maybe What bout a Katori of Kheer? Rs. 20/- i guess And a plate of Butter Chicken? Definitely anything above 30 bucks. And if you try the same items in semi "Posh" restaurants they may create a hole in your wallet 4/5 times bigger. But what if someone tells you that he gets to eat a Dosa only for Rs. 4/-, Kheer for Rs. 5.50 and Butter Chicken for...

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Amazing India!

(This one is a forwarded sms from a friend) What is India??.. 1. A Nation where Pizza reaches home Faster than Ambulance & Police, 2. Where U get Car Loan @ 5% but Education Loan @ 12% 3. Where Rice is Rs.40 but Sim card is free 4. Where people standing at tea stall reading an article about child labour from newspapr & say "Yaar Bachho Se Kaam Karwane Walo Ko To Fansi Par Chara Dena Chahiye'' & then they shout...

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The Inevitable . . .

He knew that it was inevitable, but he had no idea that he would do it so soon. . When they heard the news, they could believe neither their ears nor their eyes. Its strong smell dashed into their nostrils and brought them to their senses. It has happened. They never had a hint of the revolution taking place so silently and secretly around them. Clearly he had taken enough precautions not to raise an iota of doubt in their minds....

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Sambha of Sholay passed away. . .

Veteran actor Mohan Makhijani, also known as Mac Mohan (Sambha of Sholay), passed away on 10th May, at the age of 71 years, at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital after battling Cancer for a long time. In his 46 years of acting career, he acted in more than 190 movies including a Bangla film (Aashrita). Mac Mohan started...

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One-liner T-Shirts!!

My friend P is crazy bout shopping (like most girls in the world) and she has a weakness for chocolates (again like most girls) and t-shirts. She perhaps has a collection of 30 or so one-liner t-shirts. The last time i was in her shopping team (oh yeah! She shops with a group of friends), she kinda forced me to buy my first one liner t-shirt thus causing my already light wallet lighter by 199 bucks. . :( A few days ago she was...

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My First Award!

Well i'm extremely pleased to inform you that i've been declared the winner of the First Caption Contest conducted by Lazy Pineapple, along with another blogger Amit. My congratulations to Amit too. This is the moment when i'd like to thank my mom, my dad, my neighbours, the dearest and nicest of all the judges (i.e. LP), the little johnny who got stuck in the potty to provide us with the opportunity to participate in this...

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The Monday Blues!

"I hate Mondays!" those are the three letter words that i'm pretty sure all of us has uttered atleast once in our life. Some of us get over this Monday hatred and some of us don't. As far as guys like me who are a firm believer of Garfield-ien Philosophy are concerned, we can't imagine loving any Monday. Not that i don't wish to have a good feeling everytime i wake up on monday morning and say "Thank God, its monday again,...

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Ma - the sweetest word

The highest of all feminine types in India is mother, higher than wife.Wife and children may desert a man, but his mother never. Mother is the same orloves her child perhaps a little more. Mother represents colourless love thatknows no barter, love that never dies. Who can have such love? — only mother,not son, nor daughter,...

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New Year Puja

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Why Women Shop So Much!

Couple of days ago i went for shopping ,,, with my cousin T. She was looking for a gift item for her friend's B'day. After wandering in the narrow streets of Barra Bazaar for 'bout two and a half hours and me following her like her personal attendant, she finally decided to buy one saree somewhat reluctantly. The look on her face was something like "we could have get something better if we tried a bit more". That was the day...

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My Best Friend 4 Life & Love for Books

My cousin T says that Dogs are a man's best friend. . But i beg to differ. To me dogs are those ill mannered things that bark their lungs out under my bedroom window at midnight. So self annihilation is the most preferable choice for me than treating them as my best friends. However today is not my day for annihilation and so i'll write 'bout it some other day. But about best friends i think no one else can be as best a friend...

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The Songs That Rocked Me!

Good music is one of the best things that we (humans) have. So much variations, so many gharanas, so different styles. I wasn't much into music when i was a teenager (Ah. . I miss those days). At that time, i had access to only bollywood music and i simply hated it. I think seeds of hatred for bollywood songs were sowed in me during the later period of Govinda and early period of Akshay Kumar. So with songs like "samose mein...

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