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Frontline & Chai5 reasons why people of Kolkata don’t want to work hardWhy don't the people of Kolkata want to work hard? Why is there a constant complain of deteriorating work culture? Why can't West Bengal progress despite being bestowed with natural goodness? Why is the only state in India that has the sea, mountains and forests, cannot have a thriving tourism industry? Know the basic 5 reasons who Kolkatans are lazy.
2023-02-1921 min
Frontline & ChaiShould India and Pakistan UNITE now?!!I’ll get straight to the elephant in the room: Do you think -parts of Pakistan will now unite with India?
Most Pakistanis will say No. Most Indians will say No.
2023-01-2307 min
Frontline & ChaiShould I go back to India now?Now that I am so well settled in Canada for 15 years, after my revolutionary journey which I talked about in my blog, “Word rape me at night’, would I want to go back and settle in India now? Let’s weigh the possibilities.
2023-01-2332 min
Frontline & ChaiI am missing the Durga PujasNo words can express how much we miss the pujas living so far away from Kolkata. But I said whatever I feel.
2022-09-1405 min
Frontline & ChaiWhat's wrong with this poster of Kali?I don't find anything wrong with this poster too. 🤷♂️🤷♀️ #kaalifirstlook #Kaali #ifindnothingwrongwithkaaliposter
We offer Ma Kali goat meat and whiskey while doing puja. What's wrong with a little cigarette?
#HinduslearnHindusimplease
2022-07-0609 min
Frontline & ChaiWhy do we look for God!I was born in a world when blackberries and apples were just fruits. Web was a thing spiders spun, and net was something you caught a fish with. Hardware was hammers and nails and saws you worked with, and software was never heard of. Rams, spiders, blue-rays and bugs were all living creatures. (Some of them creepy and crawly). I do not understand how they made their way into tech-textbooks... I had liked our generation. We believed in ghosts, UFOs, Santa Claus, God, love and miracles. It was a pleasant state of mind to let someone else take the...
2022-07-0208 min
Frontline & ChaiAre we already into the 3rd World War?We are not well. The Earth is not well. Ever since 2020 the earth has been suffering, first from Covid, then the Taliban invasion of Afghanistan, regressing the country to a society 100 years back, and now the war: The self-imposed bully, Russians invading Ukraine, with things now just short of World War 3. With the sword of being tried as a war criminal now hanging on Putin’s head, and the head of MI6 saying that mass execution was a part of Putin’s plan, we are now seeing the atrocities of Russia, Talibs, and other terrorists alike. They earlier had a tag...
2022-04-0622 min
Frontline & ChaiWhy you shouldn't watch #KashmirFilesKashmir Files stumped me yesterday. I started watching the film thinking it to be another torture porn, another take on a gruesome genocide, sitting half-interested with the remote in my hands to change it whenever I am done with the violence. But I couldn’t. Instead, I stopped multi-tasking with the phone in my hands and sat up to watch it with interest. Yes, violence was there. Gruesome violence. Unpardonable cruelty. I cannot believe that any human can do this to another human. But we saw the be all and end all of it in the holocaust. However, this wa...
2022-03-1612 min
Frontline & ChaiNow we see them!We can no longer toss the concept away as a figment of some crackpot's imagination. We are now seeing them. Perfectly sane US air-force pilots and navy personnel have been speaking about them extensively and now Australia's 60 minutes has an entire episode devoted to them.
There are something around for us to take it seriously. Now the U.S. military has acknowledged them and has a new word for them UAP --- Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.
The the question is not whether they exist or not but how will we react when we meet the being in a...
2022-02-2214 min
Frontline & ChaiHow do we Bengalees survive as immigrants?How, as a Bengali, from Kolkata, have we acclimatized in a foreign land, keeping all our Bengali values intact?
And why should you care about NRI’s like us, as we are referred to? We have left the motherland.
Today’s guest in my podcast is Sushmita Paul, Bengali writer, editor and teacher settled in Austria, Graz, which has a huge historical reference as being a major power seat for the Nazis during WWII. Today we get rui mach in Bengali stores there. That is, of course, a totally different story.
Please welcome Sush...
2022-02-1527 min
Frontline & ChaiHow did I survive as an immigrant in Canada? The Great Canadian ExperienceWelcome to my 9th podcast, Frontline and Chai. Those who are here for the first time, please feel free to subscribe to the channel as I post podcasts like this every week. Let me say a line about myself. I am a journalist, reporter, having worked with giants like ABP, Telegraph and Hindustan Times. I also worked as Managing Editor of South Asian News and CanIndia News in Canada. In this podcast I will address the Elephant in the room: How did I survive as an immigrant in Canada, and why did I come to Canada in the first...
2022-01-1920 min
Frontline & ChaiA close encounter with the 3rd kindThis podcast is about a close encounter that I had with the third kind in the year 1994. And this will be a dramatic podcast, where I will be telling you the story of my first such encounter, I dared where angles feared to tread.
It was that era when the world believed God created only Adam and Eve. God did not create them. The were neither. They were derelicts, social outcasts, feared, despised and ridiculed by men and women alike. Their coarse voices, their filthy language and obscene gestures embarrassed the ‘normal’ and the ‘civilized’, who would never kn...
2022-01-1215 min
Frontline & ChaiWhat can you expect from 2022?When we were celebrating the New Year bash of 2020, we hardly knew what we were celebrating. We barely knew that the year we are celebrating is a monster, who was coming at us with a new kind of cane to beat up humans in the creepiest possible way --- in such a way that we couldn’t even fight back immediately, we couldn’t even see our enemies. We were throttled by a microscopic enemy in such a way that humanity went into hiding for a long time: Literally. The roads were abandoned, we were imprisoned in our homes, step...
2022-01-0420 min
Frontline & ChaiHow Ahmed (name changed) escaped the Taliban: The bone-chilling storySo today my podcast guest is the young man who escaped the Talibans. Tune in to listen to his bone-chilling experience about how he escaped from the Talibans when they occupied Afghanistan. I played a a small part in his escape. I created a GoFundme funding, where we collected over $10000 to help him escape. I want to extend my thanks to all those who have contributed and want to let you know that he is now living in a completely new country with his little brother and uncle and is able to survive because of that contribution.
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2021-12-1429 min
Frontline & ChaiHow did Hetal Parekh's friends feel about Dhananjoy? Meet Moumita, who talked with themThis is the 3rd and final leg of the Dhananjoy Chatterjee hanging case, which started with my solo podcast about how I was asked to attend the hanging. Please check that out among the episodes. In this podcast, my guest is Moumita De Das, the Assistant Professor, School of media and communications, at Adamas University. Why is she here? Today we are going into that depths of hell once more to reiterate exactly what happened during the execution of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, whose hanging is increasingly becoming a controversial discussion. And with every passing year, with the film Dhananjoy made...
2021-12-1127 minFrontline & ChaiEye-witness report of Dhananjoy execution media frenzyDid media that time go down a worm-hole so insensitive that it feels ashamed to think of how they did it? Will media ever say sorry to the family of Dhananjoy for making a ring-circus of their tragedy? Will the society ever say sorry to hapless such victims whose despair is camera's fodder to people? An entertainment over a cup of tea for people? When will media learn to use its power and freedom to be able to draw the LINE?
Meet Jaideep Mazumder, my ex-colleague, who had witnessed the family's turmoil LIVE! He was there near the family when D...
2021-12-0525 minFrontline & ChaiThe media war surrounding Dhanonjoy's execution(For technical reasons I guess, this podcast started "uploading" on its own even before I could end the talk. Thankfully, I was also on YouTube simultaneously. So, if you want, you can check out the YouTube video to hear the ending here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc2JY0zfwSI)
My YouTube channel is called 'Canada Musings' and please subscribe there too, as I will be talking on camera while recording my next few podcasts as well.
So coming to my story, the last time I spoke about how I was asked to cover a...
2021-12-0113 min
Frontline & ChaiWhen I was asked to attend an executionThe year was 2004, and I was given the "plump" assignment to cover the execution of convict Dhanojoy Chatterjee. Chatterjee was hanged on his birthday on August 14, 2004, at Alipore Central Jail in Kolkata, India, at 4.30 am. He was a security guard who was executed for the murder (following a rape) of 14-year-old Hetal Parekh on March 5, 1990 at her apartment residence in Bhowanipur, Kolkata, India. And I was asked to cover the hanging -- LIVE!
2021-11-2615 min
Frontline & ChaiWhat happened to real news?I am from that era when we basked in live news pouring in, running after deadlines and making newspaper headlines. These days there are no headlines. All news are served in the same platter. Newspapers and journalism have lost their magic. This podcast is my version of the week's news and in-depth analysis of the truth.
2021-11-1112 min
2021-11-1100 min