Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| When God listened to me : Lung Cancer & | After my retirement from the Govt.service, came to Calcutta, joined a nondescript hospital in Salt lake as Consultant Surgeon. Seba was a small neat hospital, run by a Doctors co-op. It was moderately well equipped with friendly staff and I quite liked it. Peerless was starting a large hospital in Panchasayar promised me a slot, but it could be a long wait. In Seba my practice grew quite satisfactorily. | 28-Jan-2015 |
| Does Corruption makes the 'C' in the pa | I belong to the left generation. When we were students, Che Guevera and Mao fired our imagination, not Bill Gates . Locally, we idolised the likes of Nripen Chakrabarty , Benoy Chowdhury and Promode Dasgupta of CPI(M) , Asoke Ghose and Chitta Bose of Forward Bloc , Makhan Pal of RSP and countless others for whom the party and the movement was wife and mother , temple and heaven . I have been personal witness to their simple lifestyles . | 19-Jan-2015 |
| Using solar power: The Gujarat way | It was a sunny afternoon, when the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon inaugurated a canal top solar power plant at Vadodara (earlier known as Baroda) of Gujarat in western India, where the UN chief highly commended the vision and leadership of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who initiated the impressive project during his tenure as the Gujarat chief minister. | 20-Jan-2015 |
| Make in India but Make it Green | A century back, on January 9, Mahatma Gandhi made his determined journey to India with a singular goal to Make in India. He wanted to make in India a movement of freedom from foreign oppression, discrimination, and social apartheid. The capital needed for this was in the form of bold assets of non-violence and civil disobedience. | 16-Jan-2015 |
| Monetise Second War sites for Northeast | The mad tourist rush to First World War battlefields in France and other EU nations during its centenary have helped revitalize local economies in the midst of a recession. But unlike the First, the Second World War was as much fought in Europe as in Asia. The Tennis court at Nagaland capital Kohima or the Red Hill near Manipur capital Imphal witnessed as much severe fighting as the streets of Stalingrad or the desert of El Alamein. | 07-Jan-2015 |
| Modi & Erdogan: Parallel lives? | The writer Amitav Ghosh has noted "striking" parallels between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "In both cases", he says, "an entrenched secular-nationalist elite had been dislodged by a coalition that explicitly embraced the religion of a demographic majority". Moreover, secularism was seen by the latter as "a thinly veiled means for monopolizing power and discriminating against the majority". | 06-Jan-2015 |