Shhhhhhhh....... Development’ is in Progress!
It must be a wonderful time to be in power. Specially when you know you don't deserve it! All it takes to make headlines is to close a beloved heritage restaurant or paint a hundred-year-old monument or a 300-year-old city in a livelier shade. This government — you know, the one that recently handed us our “ New Independence Day, " self-declared world leader (only in a fool's paradise)— is clearly on a roll. The recent one: out goes Bijoli Gril from Bhanga Bhawan, escorted away by memories of kosha mangsho, dab chingri and mutton cutlets never to return. Maybe democracy now means you’re free to say goodbye to anything remotely warm, familiar, or meaningful. Apparently, College Street in the City of Joy is another example. Why should Kolkata have an old-fashioned book lover’s paradise when it can look like London? Let’s bulldoze the quaint, the unique — after all, failed imitation is the highest form of flattery. Hawkers at railway stations, too, have exited stage le...