Appropriate heading of this should have been Death of a Telecom Engineer. Here is a call from this extinct telecom engineer to his son. A call to the future always puts the caller into threat. This Call – telephone or otherwise is a posthumous Call. This letter also tells how an industry of one hundred and fifty years (the circuit switched, wired, monopolistic) became dated within a decade.
Those who aspire to become great managers or gurus should read this. This also explains, in minute details how great Management Leaders function and lead their employees. Anyone interested in having a Quality Career and Quality Certification should not miss this. 25 employees, on the cutting edge organizations had compiled this. Many are great leaders in great Organizations.
For all MBAs – those who has become (Man becoming Ass? – suggested by a MBA well-wisher who for obvious reasons remain anonymous ) or those are on the way. This dialogue may be first time in history of MBA – a self confession. The dialogue also shows the remarkable interest even an MBA can elicit while he puts his training into self-interrogation. No power point and no Cow Diagram included.
In a short essay, an unknown wordsmith told, over an email, six years back his coming to Calcutta from much milder climate. Connecting Babar, the empire builder to anti-imperialist Marxists, climate perhaps remained same for both to tackle. A self-styled historian’s teasing with climate of Bengal.
In honouring the Romantic Tradition of Calcutta. Also a tribute to the women of Bengal in the backdrop of Bengal’s political destiny. Few sketches of personal encounters in the theme – we could not avoid this piece in the City of Novel theme. The essay changes tenor and mood in a rare autonomy that is only available to a creative artist. So is a city – in its core – dark, ambiguous, contradictory, enticing and in a way beautiful.
An inaccurate, quick-written, Calcutta guide. Not to be used for Navigation. Author and editor take no responsibility if any of the advices don’t produce desired results. Because – things have changed. For example, earlier Marx in Calcutta reminded Engels, now in many young ears, it prompts Spencer! Sic Transit Manifesto Mundi.
Three contributors, separated by three disciplines and three oceans had an inebriated chatting session. One is an ashram resident, another lives by the Bay area and the third, the youngest is a clinical trial adviser. The chat is collected, revised and edited and then being sent here. Rumination on God, Digital world and biotechnology. Spontaneous and incoherent.
In age old tradition of misti-mukh, Pentasect announces its birth – in Calcutta Culture. Dipanjan and Shomik provide a Calcutta sweet map, tinged with sweet nostalgia, for different reasons for them.
Young married couples in high end jobs today resemble a high revenue, high P/E and high credit-worthy business unit or firm. These ‘units’ are one of the core driver’s of our urban up-market economy. But the devil remains in the places un-expected. There is a silent, lurking darkness below the scintillating eyes of the beholder and the beheld. Pinaki Chakraborty presents this ‘villain’ which is called Post Nuptial Depression.
This Editorial introduces this new sect – Pentasect. The name Pentasect, in some cabbalistic connection is a reverse truncation of Sector Five – the IT district of Calcutta and Eastern Region. Pentasect in any Indic Language means Five Elements (pancha-tantra) and to Bengal – connects to another cultural legacy: The Tantrik Tradition. Pancha-tantra also connects Greek Fables and our own Indian version. Finally – in our physical essence we are made up of five primal elements.
