North Kolkata Calling !!

                    China opens the longest  Underwater Highway. This is under Taihu Lake - around 50 kilometers from Shanghai. It took 4years to  build this six  tunnel which is 10.7 Kilometres  long! 

How strange things happen!  I was returning in an Auto after spending a nice outing with my wife on the New Year morning.  The auto driver put up a loud song which - non the less- I was following It was a male female duet piece.  Being a musician myself I was  trying hard to locate Artists. When I failed I asked the driver the names of the Artists.  To my surprise he said it was Amit- tabh Bachchan. I thought -conside- ring my age- he probably thought that I would only recognise our  time heroes & superstars. Hence he quoted Mr.Bachchan's name.  There were two other teenagers too who probably were listening to our conversation. They started laughing and said that the singer wasn't Mr.  Bachchan. Strangely -when I asked them the same question they were unable to answer.  It pained me to find the present generation least bothered to know the name of the singers! 

Around 80 puppies were killed by a large group of monkeys at Lavloo village. The village is in Bir district of Maharashtra. A month ago a monkey cub fell from its mother's lap and few dogs immediately killed  it.  This led the monkeys to retaliate.  Wherever they found puppies they grabbed them- took them to great heights and killed them mercilessly The village has become dogless!   

There should be  no music without the beat of Tabla or Drumb.  Wonder when should we   understand the importance of of Tala and beats of Drum?  Rythm is Important and it's very Important! 

How can one survive inside the  Cargo Hold of an airplane for a long period?  Such an impossibility happened in an Indigo flight.  During his daily work of loading goods in the Cargoe Hold a worker fell asleep while the others locked the door and left unknowingly.  Without any knowledge of such an incident the Indigo flew from  Mumbai to Abu Dhabi. It came to light when the locked door was  opened to unload goods!  According to a pilot the air flow from the passengers place usually travels to that Cargo Hold. If there is any change in air pressure or temperature  no lives could  survive.  That is the very reason when pets are carried-a special declaration is given beforehand. 

It was in a village where the young mother was was busy with her domestic work. Her 6years old kid was beside her. Suddenly a cheetah from nowhere jumped upon the kid and vanished with it into the deep forest.  The mother immediately came into action. She ran after the cheetah for around a kilometre(all the while  shouting and throwing stones) and finally saved her child from the  jaws of the cheetah.  This happened in Jharkharia in MP. 

There was a time when Artists and their audiences used to be nearest to each other. They knew each other through their common interests. The Artists immediately recognised their listeners and no communication gap was felt!  (Vilayat Khan, Imrat Khan & Alla  Raka in Calcutta's Chhatu Babu  Latu Babu's Thakurbari)