Income Tax Bar Association celebrated its centenary
The Income Tax Bar Association Calcutta, celebrated its centenary at a function held in the Science City auditorium last week.
The Income Tax Bar Association Calcutta, celebrated its centenary at a function held in the Science City auditorium last week.
Taking advantage of the Calcutta High Court order that stopped further investigation on 7 February
The comment betrayed the fact that either the police have failed to give him security or the accused had fled somewhere outside the state.
For Calcutta Walks, the agenda has been to enlighten people about the city and its various nuances, which are not much explored.
The project has successfully funded 48 heart operations for these little superheroes. To add colour to this, they also released a collectors calendar, 'Carnival', featuring rare moments of celebrities with their favourite cars.
In his autobiography, Gandhiji talked of his visit to Calcutta as it then was in 1896, and the contrasting receptions he got from editors of the different newspapers he met to talk about his work in South Africa. One editor thought he was a wandering Jew while another after keeping him waiting for an hour told him, “You had better go. I am not disposed to listen to you.” Gandhiji writes: “…I met the Anglo-Indian editors also. The Statesman and The Englishman realised the importance of the (South African) question. I gave them long interviews and they published them in full.” We publish these interviews here, among the first of Gandhiji published in India.
Calcutta’s uninviting, ramshackle and unassuming tea stalls don’t just serve tea, they also serve equal proportions of nostalgia, necessary stimulation, and kindness. Over the years, the frail earthen cups have held within them, a revolutionary beverage that has broken through class and caste hierarchies.
This selection of responses to Calcutta, mostly written in English, trace interlinks, fractures and the chaos of the physical city, ranging from representations of the Imperial gaze, to the postcolonial gaze of privilege that characterize the representations of the educated, cultured, urban upper middle-class writers and public intellectuals
The contradictory responses of appreciation and disenchantment about the city of Calcutta were not much different even in the eighteenth century. Various surviving documents tell us that there were at least fifteen travellers to Calcutta in the 18th century, of them three were non- Englishmen and two were women
On closer reflection, West Bengal is not the only state that has fallen out with the UGC over its revised guidelines.
