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Chitpur faces

It is impossible to reduce the multiplicity of faces that Chitpur has to a single exhibition of a limited number of photographs. For Chitpur, the ancient arterial road coursing from north to south Calcutta and running parallel to Chittaranjan Avenue of 1941 vintage, is also a state of mind, the personification of the spirit of Calcutta, a young city without the grandeur of Mughal Delhi but with a quaint...

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Facts about a nation

The two-hour documentary, available in Bengali and English, has sold nearly 1.5 lakh copies in CDs in a year. It was shown at the Calcutta Film Festival, a few days before the Bangladesh Supreme Court upheld the death sentences to the former army officers convicted of killing Mujibur Rahman.

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Lasting dander

Last week, a delegation was in Calcutta to promote Queen's University Belfast. It brought one of Ireland's foremost poets to town, who is also the current Ireland Professor of Poetry, which entails residencies at universities including, Queen's.

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Young and lost

Was a bad haircut reason enough for an 18-year-old to kill himself? A spate of suicides by youngsters in the city raises questions

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A Bond film

Ruskin Bond started writing when he was 17 years old and at 75, he's still going strong. Over 300 short stories, five novellas, 30 children's books, numerous essays, an autobiography in two volumes, travel writings, and poetry later, the prolific writer has penned his first story for a film.

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All the world's a pitch

Last Sunday's opening page in The Telegraph had a petulant statement to the media from home minister Chidambaram that the David Headley affair was not a cricket match to which he was giving a ball-by-ball commentary. The vocabulary of cricket's armchair golden oldies is dominated by cricket at all times but especially so in the season. (Do I hear a wife saying: when is it not the season? Is it my imagination...

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A close look at North-East

A wet Monday evening is hardly the ideal time for a book launch. Particularly if it happens to be at the British Council on Camac Street that can get flooded even after a drizzle. But it was full house at the launch of Subir Bhaumik's Troubled Periphery, Crisis of India's North-East.

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Next weekend you can be at ... Rikisum

Rikisum, located on the Pedong-Lava Road, is a quaint little settlement atop a hill. It offers a magnificent view of the mountain ranges of the Kanchenjunga and is often considered the best viewpoint of the Kalimpong sub-division for viewing the hills of Kalimpong, Darjeeling, Gangtok and Pedong towns.

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Arch rivals tie the knot

The musicians strike up a tune and the disillusioned chorus beckons the audience to come forward and be a leader they can trust, singing "orey ekta bhalo neta hobi ai". Based on Nazrul's Leto play Haridasi Methrani, Nabamayukh Natya Sangstha's new play Letor Peto uses a now forgotten tradition of Noto or Leto, which, as singer-researcher Debojit Bandyopadhyay recalls, "was in the early...

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Sick city: How air pollution is to blame

Lungs under PM attack. Smaller the particles, deeper they penetrate

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Truth rocks Chief Justice chair

A lawyer trying to prove that the national emblem illegally sits on many government symbols minus the legend Satyameva Jayate sealed his argument on Friday by pointing where nobody had looked before: the chief justice's chair.

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Security sham at malls, hotels

A stealth operation by Calcutta police has confirmed what we feared ' that malls and star hotels around town are security sieves.

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CU date with result delay

Around 1.8 lakh undergraduate students of Calcutta University are paying the price for the three-pronged attack on their examination schedules by the Lok Sabha polls, a Congress-sponsored bandh on July 17 and an indefinite transport strike.

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NRS drug scam 4 yrs old

Lifesaving medicines worth lakhs were being smuggled out of NRS hospital for at least four years by Group D workers, mainly of the emergency and gynaecology wards, the probe into the scam has revealed.

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Plot poser to govt, Sourav

The state government will have to tell the court within two weeks under what law it had handed over a 62-cottah plot in Salt Lake CA block to Sourav Ganguly to set up an educational institute.