News: Other (Oct 2013)
This has been a surprising month for the newspaper; one thing a pleasant surprise, the other, not so good. I am aware that newspapers are not available the day after a holiday (because the workers...
View ArticleGovernment as Criminals (Oct 2013)
1 Oct (Pati) RCW1 Oct (Military) Kenya2 Oct (FCM) England/G.A.2 Oct (Pati) RCW (Where else but in the RCW, where rape is legal, could this happen?)2 Oct (FCM) South Africa 2 Oct (FCM) G.A.3 Oct...
View ArticleMarco Polo
The restaurant (in Kolkata), not the Italian merchant traveller.Caroline received some (not a lot) of money recently, and decided to use some of that to treat herself and me to a nice dinner at Marco...
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Film Review of Krrish 3, Part 2
[For introduction, see Part 1]As I have mentioned in a few reviews, the length of a film is usually not note-worthy. It is not note-worthy in this film, but I just want to mention that the intermission...
View ArticleFilm Review of Krrish 3, Part 1
Whatever became of Krrish 2?Caroline wanted to watch Krrish 3 because she saw a preview of it and wanted to see more of the wonderful special effects. I wanted to watch it because I enjoyed watching...
View ArticleIndian TV Commercials (2013)
In writing, I often have the option of editing a previous post, or writing a new post.Almost two years ago, I wrote a post about Indian TV Commercials. Now, I have new ideas. Nevertheless, I could...
View ArticleAnnoying Habits
In my recent review of Krrish 3, I wrote that many people complain that Indian films often copy things from other films. To me, this is irrelevant. If you have not seen the original then it will be new...
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Great Features, Lenovo has
I consider myself to be knowledgeable, astute and erudite in many areas. I may not be a polymath, but I may be close. The majority of my blog posts concern society; however, when called upon, I am hep...
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A Day in the Life, Part 1
[Warning; potentially disturbing photo at the bottom of this post] My desires for these monthly Daily Life posts are that they are monthly and that they consist of items or topics which could fit...
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News: Other (Nov 2013)
I tend to be extremely busy and anxious toward the end of each month. To alleviate this, I sometimes publish some posts (such as News: Other and GaC) early, and then do my best to ignore other articles...
View ArticleGovernment as Criminals (Nov 2013)
I shall iterate and re-iterate some abbreviations: RCW=Rape Capital of the World (formerly known as India); G.A.=Gulag Archipelago (formerly known as the U.S.); FCM=Fee-Collecting Murderers (formerly...
View ArticleGovernment as Murderers (Nov 2013)
A guideline--if not a rule--for these posts is that I use news articles from only from the specified month. For example, for my June 2013 post, I used news articles that were published in June 2013. If...
View ArticleMy 299th Post
When I win the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Man Booker Prize, I may not write about that. (Oh, wait; perhaps I should write, "If I win the Nobel Prize...")As a blogger, I read very many blog posts....
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My 300th Post
[Written by Subhorup Dasgupta; for introduction, see My 299th Post]What happens instead… When I received an invitation from Micky to write something to celebrate 300 posts on this blog, I was more than...
View ArticleGenealogy (Dec 2013): St. John's Cemetery, The Journey
It was both easier and harder (primarily harder) to get to St. John's Church and Cemetery in Sealdah, Kolkata. In preparation, I printed a Google map of the destination. I felt comfortable in getting...
View ArticleGenealogy (Dec 2013): St. John's Cemetery, The Comment
I am becoming more and more proud of this blog. I think that the quality of the posts have improved. The quantity of the posts is quite large so I am providing more and more information which, I hope,...
View ArticleFavourite Places
In the past twelve months, I have had just three About Me posts: Favourite Videos (virtually twelve months ago); Favourite Indian Websites (an off-shoot of a post originally titled Favourite Websites)...
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Film Review of Bhagam Bhag
I had wanted to watch and review Krrish 3 because I wanted to discuss super-heroes in Hindi films. There, I discussed comedy, as well. In two other posts, I mentioned that I would review Hindi films...
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Medicine in India
I have written Sick of India(?) in which I wrote about my physical difficulties in adjusting to the Indian climate and food (specifically, beef). I have written Health(?) in India in which I wrote...
View ArticleIn India, Rape is Legal but Sex is Not
I think that this will be good post and I think that I shall be proud of it, but I am ambivalent about other factors. I had thought of merely linking this article in my monthly Government as Criminals...
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