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Danger zone
Thousands of people cross a fatal construction in south Kolkata everyday. Bijon Setu, the bridge over the Sealdah-Ballygunge railway track, which. connects Kasba with Ekdalia and Gariahat, is under the scanner...
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Arty Affair
With a dream to revive art forms from different parts of Bengal and to promote the poor and struggling artisans, Reshmi Chatterjee established Halo Heritage Art Gallery ...
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Is the Left violating your right?
A seminar on Fundamental Right to Education - Legality And Reality was organised at Muslim Institute Hall by Saket, a south Kolkata-based public charitable trust. The programme comprised debate, quiz, career counseling but the highlight was a presentation where volunteers of the trust, put down their findings as far as primary education was concerned, in south Kolkata wards 59 and 66. The volunteers had surveyed the slum areas of these wards and found out that fundamental right, according to Article 21-A of the Indian Constitution, which says, “The state shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age six to 14 years in such manner as the state may, by law, determine”, was being grossly violated.
The objective of the survey was to send a message to the government about the huge number of under-privileged children in these areas and the ghastly inadequate number of schools. “The population in the age group of six to 14 years in wards 59 and 66 is 33,800 and 52,000, respectively. Every year, 3,250 children of ward 59 and 5,000 children of ward 56 need to be admitted to schools but the number of government schools in wards 59 and 66 is only four and six, respectively.”
Among the guests present on the occasion was Justice Ruma Pal, former Supreme Court judge Ahmed Saeed Malihabadi, member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha and MP Md Salim. When asked if the survey indicated failure of the state government, Md Salim, refused to comment. “I do not comment off the cuff and besides I arrived late and missed the presentation.”
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Young Achiever
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Note worthy
Shyamak Mukherjee, popularly known as Joel is on a musical high. Originally a guitarist, who later turned into a vocalist, composer and arranger, he has rendered tunes to several prestigious projects both in Tollywood and Bollywood.
Son of veteran music director Madhu Mukherjee and vocalist Himika Mukherjee, music is something that runs in his genes. Trained in western classical music, his ear...
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Clean Calcutta
I stay at Pratapaditya Road in south Kolkata and it is good to see that garbage is regularly removed by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on a particular time in the morning. The...
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From string to string
A graduate from Government Art College, this multitalented sarod player, plays rare instruments like dhrupadi rabab, sur rabab, mohan vina and sursingaar with equal élan. Apart that, this south Kolkata based musician and musical instrument connoisseur Somjit Dasgupta also claims to possess the largest private collection of classical Indian string instruments in the country and is constantly trying to revive the tradition of these instruments. ...
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