Once a part of Colonial Quarters of British Calcutta (like any great city, Calcutta has many cities within it and in each historical cycle these concentric cities change their area of influence), now a famed Cricket Stadium. The field has witnessed the victory lap of Australian Steve Waugh and by some eternal pull of the city; Steve had become a member of the city.

A lighthearted essay on Cubicle by a cubicle resident. The author explains as how cubicle is no longer some utility but becoming a part and parcel of major part of our workforce who stay in that chamber for 10-12 hours per day. In that way, we may pass half of our adult lives in cubicle, unless recession or escape comes. Please see editorial note on Escape from Cubicle after the article.

A survey of Bengal’s Musical heritage. With many competencies of mainstream lost by Bengal, there are promises and the essay provokes more by its note of gaps rather than the period of exuberance.

[No city is worth a city unless it has her encyclopaedists, illustrators, strange and secret lovers – irregular sons and non-regular daughters. A true city should also have her fair share of dwellers those could be anywhere but consciously made the city their home. Ethereal Minstrels in one way - they are also the pilgrims of the city.

A new feature started. We are reviewing in Bengali some works which are selected by our reviwer Tanmay. The idea is to introduce or re-call some works which had given joy to the reviwer sometime or now and he wants to convey this to our readers.

Last September, a year back we started a journey. My finger trembles to recount that this is the 12th issue: we had been in publication although not uninterrupted for 12 months! This ‘trembling’ is due to this realization that what started as a ‘happy-go-lucky’ scheme has become passion for many of our ‘same-boat-brothers-and-sisters’ – a phrase I use without permission from another editor of Calcutta – Mr. Susanta Babu who edits Charcha.