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admin | November 12, 2009
By Mr. Inder Kapoor
I remember an incident about the use of telephones during my long career of journalism in India. It happened when the Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited India in the later part of the fifties. I was then working with the Press Truss of India (PTI) as a junior reporter. Mr. Khrushchev was [...]
admin | January 29, 2009
By Dipankar Sengupta
The one hundred fourteenth and fifteenth cantos (sargah) of the Chapter on War, (Yudhya kandya) in Maharshi Valmiki’s Ramayana describe the post war scenario in Lanka. The great demon warrior Ravana has been vanquished, his last rites performed and Bibhisana, Ravana’s younger brother has been sworn in as the new king of Lanka [...]
admin | August 29, 2008
ORAL TRADITION
By Dipankar Sengupta
It is a common belief that education and literacy are closely related and one can not be looked upon in isolation of the other. However, this axiom is not found to be true in some poorer countries where the illiteracy rate is high and yet the people are surprisingly educated when it [...]
admin | January 29, 2008
ByDipankar Sengupta
In December 2005 I was in Delhi to visit my sister. My nephew picked me up at the railway station. With him was his 6 year old son. As we were driving in my nephew’s car his cell phone rang. His wife was on the line. With one hand on the steering wheel, head [...]
click on the title to read>admin | January 29, 2007
Editor’s Note: The last publication of Samachar (July 2007) contained an article titled “Cell Phone – How India Handles It”. It drew the attention of a few readers, who called or e-mailed to tell their personal experiences in India related to telephones. Their stories were fascinating because they were real and unique. I have taken [...]
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