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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Yesterday we went to see the Magic show of P.C. Sorcar Young that was conducted at the Rabindra Bhawan at Asansol. Rabindra Bhawan has a beautiful auditorium and nice seating ...
I find it strange of how people react to food vis-a-vis their religion. Most of this strange thing is related to methods and reasons for taking/not-taking non-veg food - though ...
Bengali Language: A Brief Introduction
© Anup Mukherjee, i3pep.org, (Nov, 2003)
Bengali language is the mother tongue of the people of West Bengal and Bangladesh. Both West Bengal and Bangladesh share a ...