North Kolkata Calling !!

Paris St Germain's Neymar is one of the World's best paid sportsmen. His earning's is $85 million for the year 2023. This is according to Forbes.  A Brazilian fan of his ,strangely, left everything to him in his Will.  He declared that he was not in good health and might expire any day. He found similarity with the great sportsman. His family oriented mind, his relationship with his father etc matched with  his in several ways. Hence this decision!!              

A self made Chinese millionaire failed 27 times in his college entry tests. Though he made a lot of money his dream  to get a degree from a renowned University remained  unfulfilled. He is at present 56 years old and is known as Liang Shi by name. During the past four decades he has taken the 'gaokao' exam dozens of times. His expectation was to get a chance in some elite University. Unfortunately he is unable to secure a seat even in an ordinary one!              

An hydraulic jack was used to lift a three storied building.The G+2 building at that time had 16 residents inside. They were completely unaware of the owner's plan.They became aware when the building lilted and leaned on the next residential building. Fortunately no one was hurt in the process.  This happened in Quthbullapur's Chintal village-Hyderbad. Following complaint by the neighboring building the owner of the building was booked under IPC section 336.         

Perhaps we have not forgotten 'The Stoneman of Calcutta & Bombay during the end of 1980s.  Poor people sleeping at footpaths were targeted by the killer. The killer killed poor victims by hitting them in  their heads with a big stone which he often left beside. Police failed to crack down though freshly 'bludgeoned to death' cases kept pouring in.  Now the same seral killing is happening on the pavement in Mylardevpally, Hyderabad.Both the unfortunate men were sleeping around 200 meters apart on a pavement. The same happened with another man near Budvel railway station. At present cops are looking for any link between these three murder!          Mystery finally cleared by the police after examination of CCTV. The stoneman was killing his victims for the simple reason of steating their money!    

Tragedy surrounded Titanic once again. Four tourists along with their guide -were in a submersible and were in their way to explore the Titanic wreck. Unfortunately they lost all contact with the chartered research ship which was at the dive site. From the last Sunday morning when the 22feet long vessel covered more than half the way -lost all contact. The crew of five were in great danger as the oxygen might run out any moment. The vessel has a 96 hours air supply and the time is fast moving towards the end. The total dive was supposed to be around two and a half hours.  May God save them!!           

Bade Gulam Ali Khan ,known as the Samrat of the Indian Classical Music World,never lent his voice in filmy songs. It was Naushad the music director of the renowned film"Mughal-E-Azam"who first requested him to sing a Classical song for a romantic scene between Dilip Kumar and Madhubala.Ustadji naturally declined. Naushad was bent upon getting it done by Khan Shaheb only. He finally told K Asif, the director, about his wish.Next- they went together and repeatedly requested Ustadji to do the job. Just to get rid of them Gulam Ali Khan asked for a fantastic price of Rs20, 000/-.During those days (1960) renowned and much sorted Artists were payed Rs5000/-.K Asif was not daunted since he too was convinced about Khan Shaheb's ability. Hence the deal was finalized and Bade Gulam Ali lent his voice.  (Courtesy- Naushad's interview)     Song:Prem Jogan Ban Ke.  .        . 

Paul McCartney one of the famous Beatles thinks AI has added a lot of excitement as well as fear of what it could bring. According to him there is both good as well  as bad side of it. With the help of AI they will be able to revive their last song, where late John Lennon featured. AI was used to separate his voice & piano music from his recorded demo. It is expected to be released this year -thanks to AI!                           

Schwartz is a lawyer. He has practiced in New York for at least 30 years.He heard a lot about ChatGPT from his college aged children but never used it in his professional area.However he tried it as if it was a super search engine.He posed questions to it (ChatGPT) and was surprised by its response.He showed a printout of his interaction with the bot. Words like 'certainly' 'sure' tossed out. It even said cheerily 'I hope that helps.' A link for those who wants to know in detail. https://youtu.be/LxZy5UhZwXU