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The Charm of Badey Sharmaji and Chhotey Sharmaji The year, 1992. After finishing engineering, my friend Sanjay decided to move to Delhi from Tripura in search of job. Job was scarce those days and more was so in the northeastern States if the branch wasn't civil or electrical. He booked an air ticket to Calcutta, as was Kolkata known those days, and then by railroad to New Delhi. Air tickets to Calcutta from Agartala was difficult to get as it served as a lifeline with only one operator flying twice a day at subsidised government rates. Getting a reserved seat in trains was difficult too in those days of manual system that prevailed. But then, his accommodation was ready and available with confirmation that was arranged through a common friend. For someone from the Northeast, the metros were places where it simply didn't suit the lifestyle and more the so, the people out there. Alienation was more than the desired levels of acceptance. It was his grit and determination ...

It was recently remarked by a learned friend that when it came to catch rats, any cat would do! It took some time to analyse what he said. It was too true to believe! We indeed put people of any calibre to churn out magic in marketplace. And yes, some with meagre or not qualifications do excellent jobs at  the helm. This phenomenon is not restricted to our country alone, but then, on second thoughts, persons with skills in a trade perform or may perform or should perform well when heading a trade that ones educated in. This is where breeds of cats come into play when catching rats with different abilities that they specialise in. Those cats that undergo skilled training to hunt down rats in different terrains and conditions shall be of greater demand and execute the job flawlessly indeed. Then, there are the moles and mouses to tackle that require the best breeds of cats and well trained ones. It may also be true that different animals may also be trained to embrace ra...

It wouldn't be too late in the night for bachelors like us, a couple of who were forced ones with their families living in Bengal, enjoy a good session of gossips in Bangla, the mother tongue! Amongst the handful few, a few enthusiastic Bengalis would pool in after the day's work in the hills of West Sikkim. A few was the count of Bengalis in that place and fewer the ones who would dare to participate in a jamming adda session. I used to stay in Tikjuk, a place between Gyalshing (Gayzing) and Pelling where government quarters are located and would come down to join them occasionally. The adda would usually unfold at the manager's residence of a bank in Gyalshing, sometimes to be joined by the branch manager of another bank who was posted in Pelling. There were no core banking solutions and the bankers used to break their necks with heavy lenses on the bridge of their noses poring over big fat registers called ledgers by different names. Information technology was a ...

Impunity is the perfect word today perhaps to forge ahead with wrongdoings in this country of Mahatmas. Every facet of life has become traffic to immoral acts that we may agree or disagree to. It's not that surprising when such news of fraudulent acts come to our knowledge. Comical it is that the laws of the land is for the law abiding. For those who flout the law continue to do so with impunity. Huge profiteering in mind to get rich quick kill our morale of virtuously existing on this land that cherishes Satyameva Jayate . Virtues are to be shown off on the foreground and in the backdrop, a criminal mindset takes over the centre-stage. Nobility of professions, be it service to mankind or those above the gentry, has seen a huge degradation in the recent times. Citizens are fooled in the name of higher degree of services for better profiteering motives. They are the merchants of fraud! Fraudulent  methodologies are becoming handy tools to poke gullible citizens into cons...

Concept and Assistance: Saptarshi Mazumder(Kajo) my Boloo 4th of June 2015 was my day! That's what I told myself when I heard that the parents had to leave home and station to attend a sick aunt who stayed in another town. She was close to us and upon learning about her sickness, they decided on the visit; now that I was a grown up kid and could manage for a day or two at most! Rigorous counseling followed. My mother arranged all tasks that wouldn't bother me handle the daily chores for a couple of days. The food was cooked and neatly placed in different containers in the refrigerator so I only had to take them out and warm them before eating. She ensured that everything was in place. My father took out the family car and bade me farewell, with strict orders not to open the door to unknown persons at all and go out if at all necessary ensuring that I had the keys to open the locks first, lock the door and the iron grill in front of it. Left all to myself, I switched ...

Thus spake Swamiji: We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on. Sayings and Utterances. Complete Works, 5. 417. India as a Sporting Nation saw only 2 (two) medals in her kitty at the recently concluded Olympic games at Rio de Janeiro. But how sporting we are remains a big question. We've been taking the criticisms and admirations as the same side of the coin sparing the other side with enough space for some solution to the problems that we ourselves are unaware! It's perhaps a well acknowledged fact that we don't always see problems from an expert's point of view and, being a nation infested with jugaad initiatives don't heed to a layman's outlook that gives an alternate solution. Stories like these need to be shared in order to delete hopelessness, negativism from our collective mindset. Two (too) less for comfort: The dismal show at Rio causelists all that’s ...

Detox , a short form or hip word for detoxification, basically refers to cleaning the blood that flows in our body. This is done by removing impurities from the blood in the liver, where toxins are processed for elimination. The body also eliminates toxins through the kidneys, intestines, lungs, lymph and skin. It is when this system is compromised, impurities aren't properly filtered and, every cell in the body is adversely affected that in turn affects the entire machinery. We are hounded by sickness. More the so, it's not easy on the pocket. This write-up is to kindle another form of detox that we need to imbibe in our lives. But then, for most of us, it's difficult or rather ignorant of the impelling idea to know if one need to detoxify at all. Today, with more toxins in the environment than ever, " it's critical to detox ," says Linda Page, N.D., Ph.D., the author of Detoxification. But then, apart from physical detoxification of the huma...