North Kolkata Calling !!

We were school going  kids when we heard of a strange incident.  Even  our elders seemed to be often  talking about it in a concerned manner. I somehow  still remembered it which  now I am going to relate. There were many eminent hotels & restaurants in Calcutta during those days too. However there was a particular hotel which suddenly came to focus. Customers seemed to have taken  some kind of fascination on the delicious  food that it served. Finally the secret came out when a senior police officer was having his lunch. In his mutton  curry he noticed a finger of a little boy ! He became suspicious  and decided to inspect  the kitchen .On further inspection  he found the body of a boy inside a covered drum.He was shocked to find the hotel serving human meat. When the news came out there was a public cry to throw the owner before a hungry tiger. And exactly that was done . He was eaten alive by a zoo tiger of Calcutta! (I am not

It was wednesday when my wife and myself decided to  spend some quality time together. We finally choose to watch a movie at Star Theater that was not very far from the place where we lived. After primary enquiry we came to know that Doob with Irrfan Khan  & Parno Mitra was the latest show. Hence we entered the hall with the hope to spend few moments of entertainment ! Our hopes were shattered within  few minutes when we found ourselves face to face with an Art film which needed a lot of attention and intellectual alertness .We however took it in good spirit and settled down  as calmly as possible to watch the on going scenes. It would't be out of place to recall that we grew up  watching Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak etc and had repeated debates about their details over cups of coffee at Coffee House .Those were the days when  Shakti Chattopadhyay,Sunil Ganguly, Soumitra Chatterjee, Aparna Sen etc enlightened the College

                                       This is the 237th year Durga Puja !   Participants in Music Adda were : Indrajit Basu-Flute.Tabla-Ujjwal Bharati.Kunal Roy-    Vocal.Archi Deb-Vocal.Souptik Ghosal-Sitar.Soumen Mukherjee accompanied on Tabla. -                   8      

Gone are the days when we used to call this Kite puja day. It was quite a day for us Calcuttans when every roof tops were filled with old and young. Bho kattas were often heard from houses when a kite was overpowered and the winners shouted. Gone are those days where festivities began from that very day-I mean the Durga Puja !

God .. it really has become quite impossible to decide what one should eat and what one shouldn't ! We are prey to advertisement & various opinions of doctors !!