The March month is not really a nice month to travel – the beginning of summer heat starts getting you. However given our schedule, we squeezed out two days, where we could go out on excursion. Our choice was ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) temple at Mayapur. Mayapur is situated in Nawadwip. Nawadwip is [...]
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Teacher Watching
For Peter Drucker, teacher watching was a favourite hobby. Peter Drucker, as we know was himself a great Management Guru, and originator of the Concept of Corporation. However, I was recently faced with a situation of perforce teacher watching, and in a different situation. Yesterday, when I was going to Kolkata – at Durgapur a [...]
Puja Shopping
This is the festival season in India, and in Bengal it is the season for Puja shopping. We also joined the bandwagon for the shopping and the gourmet spree that often characterises the life prior to festival season. Currently there are various kinds of mela (fairs) that are put up at Asansol that are selling [...]
Vishwakarma Puja
Vishwakarma Puja is a big occasion of celebration in the industrial belt. This comes every year on Sept 17th. The festival celebrating the God of Industrial Craft ie. Vishwakarma is an important but less known dimension of Bengal. This time I attended one such ceremony in the main telephone exchange at Asansol. In the industrial [...]
Initiation for the Probasi
“You are a Bihari, huh”? No! I protest, I am Mukherjee. “You are a Mukherjee!” – the man said with questioning disbelief and astonishment. “So where is your home?”. I say, I live at Asansol. “No-no”, he again protests – “where do you belong, where have you been brought up?”, he now asks with greater [...]
Calcutta
A version of this essay was published in the Encyclopedia of World Trade published by ME Sharpe Publishers, Armonk, New York. Calcutta (Kolkata) © Anup Mukherjee Calcutta is located on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, the westernmost branch of the Ganges that drains to the Bay of Bengal. It has been the most [...]
Asansol Film Festival and Amu
The film festival at Asansol is held around this time of the year. This comprises a handful of good films – English, Hindi, Bengali – that are shown over a week at the Rabindra Bhavan. This time we decided that we would go to watch a film. We decided on Amu that has been written, [...]
Christmas Day at Bishnupur
This Holiday season, we had various options. In first instance we wanted to go to Shantiniketan, but decided on Bishnupur. This is around 2 hours journey from Asansol by the Asansol-Haldia Express. This is a fully unresearved train and doesn’t require prior reservation. We boarded it at the Burnpur Station at 5.50 AM. The train [...]
Calcutta and Sourav’s
Recently we went to Calcutta. Apart from some works of importance, we decided that this time we would see the new face of Kokata. Kolkata, as Calcutta is now known is changing and for the good. It is developing both in terms of infrastructure as well as in terms of many newer things. While it [...]
Magic of P.C. Sorcar
Bengal is famous for magic – and the most famous contemporary magician of Bengal is P.C. Sorcar – who is the son of the famous magician of the same name. So he adds ‘Junior’ as suffix. Yesterday we went to see the Magic show of P.C. Sorcar Young that was conducted at the Rabindra Bhawan [...]
