North Kolkata Calling !!

  Our discussion encircled around Calcutta's fast food.  From there it turned to Old Calcutta's renowned shops & restaurants and their specialities.   Being a Calcuttan by birth I took pride in naming few restaurants which were renowned for their  specialities. Mughlai Paratha was our target and I quickly took the names of few Old Calcutta restaurants which were famous for such items.  My wife with whom I was discussing was from Murshidabad  and looked upon me to guide her in this respect. I named few  (Anadi Cabin, Oriental Restaurant, Mitra Cafe etc) and claimed them to be the best.   Oriental Restaurant beside Oriental Seminary (Tagore's school) being the nearest I decided to give it a try.  I looked up at the net and found their timings. I took an auto to reach there but found the shop just opening. Unfortunately they were not ready and requested me to come back in the evening.  My wife already took the required holiday from kitchen and so I was left with no options

A superfast train too have its limitation. Sometime it so happens that those  limitations are kept in abeyance for emergency purpose. Here is such a case of emergency :      To save a three year old baby from an absconding kidnapper a superfast  train was compelled to run for 240Km. It had to skip several stations since it was a non-stop run.      On receiving a complaint from a lady at Lalitpur Station (UP) the RPF  immediately swung into  action. The mother of a three year old girl was  completely devasted at the loss of her daughter. Someone snatched the  kid and jumped into the running train! On the CCTV camera the RPF  found  a man with the girl boarding the Rapti Sagar Superfast Express. They immediately contacted the Control Room at Jhansi and informed them to stop the train at Bhopal Junction, by-passing the intermediary  stations. Finally the culprit was intercepted there. Later it was known that the  absconder was non other than the father who had some fierce conflict with hi

Who have not heard of Aladdin's lamp and the genei ?  In this century it is impossible to believe that such a lamp could exist. Yet an educated gentleman (a doctor) was somehow convinced and thereby cheated.  In 2018 the doctor operated a lady named Samina. He used to visit the lady for dressing and there he came in touch with Islamuddin. He introduced himself as a tantrik and convinced the doctor that he could make him a very very wealthy man. He along with another man named Anish showed a lamp which they claimed to be a magic' lamp. They even twice showed the doctor how the genei appeared in a semi dark room ! Unbelievably the doctor fell in their trap and paid 2.5Crore for the lamp. Later nothing came out from the so called magic' lamp !!

Last finishing touches.                                          Alpona by the ladies of the house on Panchami.                                                      

Most of us have perhaps read Foyodor Drostoivosky's 'Crime and Punishment' where a mercy killing was involved. The intention of the killer was a philanthropic one . Finally the Law took its usual course and the killer was sent to gallows.        Takahiro shiraishi of Japan was involved in a similar crime. A 23year old young lady expressed her wish in Twitter to commit suicide. Henceforth she was untraceable.        The police enquiry uncovered 9 dead bodies in her house along with 240 bones in cooler.         Takahiro used to connect through various websites and find out those with suicidical motives. In his Twitter Account he expressed his  wish to help those who suffered from such tendencies. In fact he was responsible for all the bodies! (From a Newspaper repor)

We used to call him Gopalda. In fact he was universally known by that name. He was our local Dada and a much sorted man as far as bargaining was concerned. We were then mostly in our teens and our requirements encompassed around our age. It maybe a badminton /  cricket bat or a football but Gopalda was the very first name that came to our mind.     I  could still remember his method of bargaining since I had the good fortune to accompany him on his errand. I was eager to buy a Gramaphone and requested him to do the bargaining for me. As always he readily agreed and thus we started towards Mullick Bazar , better known as Chor Bazar. We somehow believed that stolen goods were sold there and hence the resale price would be quite suitable for our pockets.   When nearing the shop Gopalda changed his facial language drastically. It looked as if he was uninterested in whatever he saw before him. In a callous and indifferent manner he would ask the price of the commodity -just to show that he

Vinod Seth, a criminal minded thug, regularly cheated online banking customers. The Manager of a bank found large transactions being held in a particular account. All such transactions were held online. He became suspicious and reported the incident to the police. The Regent Park Thana police raided Vinod's residence.  Immediately Vinod put up his hands and kept shouting " I have Corona....I am a Corona patient.. .... please maintain distance and don't come near me," The police team was taken aback but maintained their stand.  For few minutes they discussed among themselves. Finally they decided to proceed and arrest him. Later they found that Vinod indeed had Corona in the past and was quite fit at present !