North Kolkata Calling !!

Seniors are no longer willing to spend their retiring days as their fathers and forefathers have spent.They are seeking for adventure and does not lack in doing daring deeds. Among many , they are not unwilling to risk their lives for the sake of risky pleasure. Many of them have taken up skydiving in their golden years. They are taking leaps from 12,500 ft. According to John Miller aged 77 years old-after leaving airplane at great height they simply forget their arthritis, pains and aches.

A 500 years old boot was recently discovered in the Alkmaar city. As always believed that farmers used wooden shoes during work, Silke Lange, an archaeologist said ' Actually this boot was from an urban contex'. The boot was found while constructing an underground waste container in Alkmaar, situated around 30 km nortwest of Amsterdam. From 1450 to 1558 these cesspits were used as toilet and waste disposal- said the archaeologist.

In it's routine image pick up, Google Street View, this time, showed an important clue. It was the picture of a man with a white bag. He was loading the bag into the trunk of a car. In Spain the authorities claimed that the picture helped them a lot.It gave them clue to track two people whom they recently arrested in the case of a man who disappeared a year ago. The police finally caught the couple on the suspicion of kidnapping the missing man. In 2022 another picture, captured by Google Street View, helped Italian police to arrest a mafia runaway fugitive after 20 years! .

In an alimony case in family court in Coimbatore, a peculiar circumstance arose.The judge ordered a 37 year old man to pay alimony of Rs80,000/-.The man executed the order by bringing 20 packed sacks. After opening the sacks the judge was shocked to find the Rs80,000/-in one and two rupee coins. He finally ordered the man to pay in currency notes! He further ordered him to pay Rs2 lakh as interim maintenance amount.

This can probably happen in India, where a section of people still believes in fake godman, sadhus etc.Recently an incident happened in Chhindkalo, a village 330km from Raipur. A villager, after waiting for quite sometime,was quite desperate to have  a child.In his desperation he visited an occultist, who convinced him that his wish will be fulfilled. The fake man adviced him to eat a live chicken. The unfortunate man, believing that at last he will be blessed with a child, followed him blindly. He chocked and died on the spot.

Living on the edge of a cliff? Yes we have heard of such circumstances where risky living is a kind of game. People living in houses known as'Suicide homes' are found in Bolivia's highland city of El Alto.These houses are built on the edge of a cliff. The residents of these houses are strong believers of Mother Earth known to them as Pachamama.Though experts are of the opinion that the cliff is eroding yet they (residents) are holding their ground and refusing to leave ! Such is their belief.

Science fictions strangely predicts future. Another S fiction seems to be moving towards reality. Google's chip 'Willow' will be able to compute under 5 minutes what supercomputer will do  in 10 septillion years. This period exceeds the age that we know about the universe.

Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar are married and living happily.On this monday they celebrated their 40th marriage anniversary by treating fans with sweet pictures. In her Instragram account she franky confessed that her husband still makes her laugh. Happy couple indeed!

Future Liren and Gukesh , famous international chess players, seems to be breeding in the foothills of Trissur district, Kerala, India, Out of 4,000 of the villages at least 6,000 people play the game very seriously. Though their passion for chess is undeniable yet they are unable to produce a grandmaster yet. This passion was not there before a man named Unnikrishnan, who was an expert in the game. He showed how even a pawn could overpower a queen- just by clever manoeuvring!

Donald Trump, the present President of US, is against citizenship by birth.He has taken up the issue on his first day in office.He is quite firm on undocumanted immigrants which he pledged on his campaign before election. For the above purpose he,through executive action,  would like to proceed further to ammend the Constitution, if possible. In an interview with NBC's Meet the Press , Trump confirmed this when asked about deporting immigrants.

He is a politician-he is a writer -he is a former diplomat etc etc. His name is Sashi Tharoor and he is aged around 68 years old.He has never been known as a lover of animals. Yet he suddenly finds a monkey on his lap. He hurriedly ate few bananas offered to him.Not only that but he also hugged and carresed him before finally resting his head on his chest and dozing off. This happened when he was sitting on a chair in his garden.

She was driving along a highway and was quite at ease , with a leg resting on the accelerator.Suddenly she felt something creeping up her leg that  was all the while on the accelerator.On looking down, to her horror, she saw a snake creeping on her foot. This happened to an Australian lady . The creeping thing was a very poisonous tiger snake. She somehow fended the snake off.The lady was, finally, found by the police on the side of a freeway near Melbourne.She was barefooted and shocked!

Santa has always been coming to us on a sledge with lots of gifts for children. Since 1943 Santa decided to come by train.Hence people of Appalachian Kentucky and Tennessee in the US always waited eagerly  for their Santa Train. The said train makes a journey of 177 km along small towns and remote coal country , showering gifts and presents to the little ones.

Tik tok, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and X are Social sites that are meant for matured persons. It is a concern for parents to find children creating accounts in the said sites. Australia have now decided to deal  with this situation. Recently it has passed a law to keep children under 16 out of these social sites. Australia claims that it is a world leading move to protect young people who often use these sites.It has no intention of isolating or punishing them.

Keisuke Oka was 39 when he began to construct a distinctive four storey Arimaston Building.He completed it when he was 59 ,thus giving away 20 years of his life.Strangely -he did the entire job single-handedly, using his own hands. His building is compared to the animated, Studio Ghibli film "Howl's Moving Castle." While growing up he felt Japan's buildings, in cities and towns, looked sad and devoid of life. Hence, after discussing with few friends, he started the building in 2005. He believes that we should start making things at a slower pace.

 'A Christmas Carol' is a famous novel written by Charles Dickens.There is a character in the said novel named Ebenezer Scrooge who turned from a bad into a good man overnight.He dreamt of ghosts who finally influenced his later life. A property used in the 1984 movie,based on that novel, was kept at Shrewsbury as a fictional grave of Scrooge.It became a tourist attraction.  However the popular stone is somehow destroyed. The town clerk Helen Ball said that they are discussing steps to be taken either to fix or replace it.  

Have we ever thought of picking up garbages from dumpsite and turning them into fashion items ? Ghana leads in importing huge quantity of used clothings from China,UK, Canada etc. Most of it (around 40%) goes to dumpsite due to it's bad shape. Local designers have now taken the opportunity to create new outfits out of these wastages.In a fast growing festival known as 'Obroni Wawu October ' these are exhibited as 'Upcycled fashion.'

DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were quite famous after the release of Titanic. These two actor and actress were found reunited at Harmony Gold Theatre in Los Angeles on November 19th this year.The occasion was the special screening of Lee.Actress Kate Winslet will be playing an important role in the movie.Leonardo said that she is one of the greatest talents in his generation. The actress became extremely emotional and said that she can't even look at Leo .If she does she will simply break down crying !

A banana has been steering controversy for years.It is a conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelcan who had duct-taped it onto the wall. On Wednesday night after five minutes bidding Justin Sun, a Chinese born crypto entrepreneur,got the prize. Sun has been heard saying that in the coming days he will eat the banana. He will do this just to become a part of that unique artistic experience.

Waiting for somebody for a long time could be a pleasure. However if the wait turns futile, one cannot help being frustrated. Beside the Bandstand voting centre some people, in the hope of seeing Salman Khan, were depressed.  Pranita Dhavale, a diehard fan of the actor, continues for a decade to meet her idol.To attend the 'hit-and-run trial case of Salman, she had been saving Rs1500/- from her salary for a long time.Just to reach Mumbai and attend the case. She is heart broken as heavy security always surrounded  him due to recent threats.