That’s what the police are claiming was stuffed with crackers and was fed to the ill-fated elephant as early as on May 12. The Wilson fellow who was arrested yesterday led the police to the shed where the explosives are prepared. Wilson is a rubber tapper and works in the farm of Abdul Kareem, that…
#An eye for an eye, a clarion call to wipe off toxins on this World Environment Day
Today citizens all over the world are seeking to green their environment. Today is World Environment Day. Trees reduce pollution and make the world habitable for life. Toxins in all shapes need to be removed, from everywhere, so that life can take birth and flourish. The Hindu has reported that the Forest Department in Kerala…
#Hang them
Industrialist Ratan Tata has called the murder of the pregnant pachyderm in Kerala a ‘meditated murder’. True. “It is certain that she was offered the pineapple filled with crackers to eliminate her,” Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) and Chief Wildlife Warden Surendrakumar told PTI. The accident theory (the animal ate the cracker laden fruit in…
Hang them
I am pointing squarely to those, who murdered a pregnant elephant by feeding her cracker laden pineapple. Hang them. Or, if the law of the land is too lenient to do it, starve them for a week, then prise open their mouths and force a cracker laden pineapple down each of their throats. So that…
The Winfrey Magic – Part I
She never fails to uplift me, when I feel particularly low. To me she is a complete woman….er a complete individual…. I hate to dive into the dynamics of gender disparity in complete woman theory. I idolise her and she is everything which I want to be but cannot be.
Wrap your New Eve dinner with this super-quick dinner recipe
New Year Eve evening is not really the night when you can yourself from family and friends to spend big time in the kitchen. Cousins and friends drop in, its a time of sitting in with your family and loved ones. The year 2019 is bidding us adieu and a fresh new decade is knocking…
Two Super-easy, Healthy and Yummy Desserts (make it to believe it!)
Cooking and baking was never my hobby during any year of my life. Although I love to eat, cooking never interested me so much when it should have. So I turned out to be a lousy cook. I cook to survive and only when there is no other way to get by through the day…
Morning/Day/Evening….. which is your work hour?
Colleges in Kolkata mostly run in shared buildings. Paucity of space, demand for higher education, raising the scope of employment have led to colleges operate in shifts, in this city. The City Colleges in north and south Kolkata, Ashutosh College, the Bhowanipore Education Society College all have trifurcated hours, i.e., morning, day and evening. While…
How do you deal with BB …. ..er, I mean Bad Boss?
You leave home not feeling particularly happy to join the workplace for the day, but you have braced yourself to slug it out. And then you are summoned in the boss’s cabin in the first half and you come out dejected, weary, close to the breaking point, angry with the boss, yourself and the world…