by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Nov 7, 2023 | Social
I was, rather I still am, a huge admirer of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji. In fact, he is one of the very few politicians who I really hold in high esteem. I liked everything about him – the way he spoke, the way he smiled, even the long pauses he used to have between...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Sep 1, 2023 | Social
Things may go wrong even when they’re in the most capable hands. PV Narsimha Rao was the first Prime Minister from South India. He was a scholar-intellectual and a polyglot who could speak as many as seventeen languages, including six languages in which he was fluent....
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Jun 26, 2023 | Social
Once during lunch break I was sitting in the sun at our office complex when suddenly the dogs at the compound started barking at a guy entering the premises from the back gate. The man was in his mid-thirties and was looking quite normal. By normal I mean that he was...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Feb 17, 2023 | Social
Born and brought up in a completely Hindi speaking environment, my relationship with my mother tongue Bangla remained detached for long. My parents did speak Bangla at home, but they mostly spoke in their village dialect which was quite different from the sweetest...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Feb 17, 2023 | Social
Though I had the subscription of a prominent ‘streaming video service’ for quite some time, I had never watched any Web-series till one of my younger colleagues asked me to watch ‘पंचायत’. “You would like it for sure” he said. He also claimed that once I start...
