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| Thursday, October 21, 2004 |

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Calcutta Weather

	Temperature Min : 20.6°C (-2) Max : 31.6°C (+0)
Relative Humidity:
Max : 91% Min : 51%
Sunrise : 5:39 AM
Sunset : 5:04 PM
Today
Mainly clear sky

Quintet & the crowd

From Tarzan to Krishna, from guess-the-theme to no theme ? there are popularity points aplenty as Calcutta goes pandal-hopping, here, there and everywhere. Backed by police figures, Metro pauses at five favourite footfall spots and figures o... | Read..

5 held over chanda thrash rerun

After Barasat, Sankrail. After an armyman, a businessman. ... | Read..

A sweet royal tradition of two centuries

Across the winding portals of Sovabazar Rajbari is the courtyard. A right turn takes one before the goddess, in daaker saa... | Read..

And the spirit shines through

Day II of the CESC The Telegraph True Spirit Puja trail hit pujas that covered extremes of social and ecological effort an... | Read..

Colours, tunes, quiz & dhaak

A creative flair for colours set the Mahasaptami mood at most of the 60 housing complexes enlisted with The Telegraph ... | Read..

Collision afresh in hit zone

A private bus rammed into a police outpost in front of Jyoti Basu?s Salt Lake residence, Indira Bhavan, early on Wednesday, i... | Read..

Best enjoyed with those dearest

I love Durga puja. The lights, hordes of happy faces and the fervour. And yet, I can?t remember the last time I spent a consi ... | Read..

Sourav Ganguly chats with kids after inaugurating the LG Lifestyle Shop in City Centre, Salt Lake, on Wednesday. The 30-minute stopover included a loo ... | Read

Love blooms amid hatred
Jasimuddin's verse epic Sojan Badiyar Ghaa ... \| Read..

CINEMA

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You share your birthday with...

Shammi Kapoor You?re a good conversationalist. You are kind and generous, and often gullibl ...Read..

Letters

Open space, not at cost of landmark

Just a snippet of a gory tale

Impression, potholes-deep

Law shift for modern city
Calcutta needs a complete ?chemical change? in its urban bylaws to realise ... \| Read..
Cell swipe to riches
Struggling through the sea of humanity at a puja pandal, if you have been s... \| Read..
Car gas analysers on way
After missing the October 1 deadline, the state government has started acqu... \| Read..
Glow-worm goddess for shoestring budget
With every para worth its towering pandal vying for its share of the... \| Read..
Myriad moments of mirth and melancholy
The city has just witnessed a high-profile shoot involving Abhishek Bachcha... \| Read..


This Ashtami you can be at... Gadiara
The tide was beginning to turn just as the first flecks of light brightened... \| Read..
Pandal Buzz
Cloth crunch... \| Read..
Dance till dawn to tunes traditional and techno
Matching stick for stick, Navratri nights are giving colourful competition ... \| Read..
Festive flavours far beyond the boundaries
By Ashtami evening, your taste buds have probably had an ethnic overload, a... \| Read..
Puja look
Being in the thick of the Pujas, going for anjali to the para... \| Read..

The City Diary

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Fire at ?illegal? pandal

Screen On & Off

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Welcome to a week-old column! You will enjoy this if you are a Calcuttan (there can never be a ?Kolkatan?!). You don?t have to be a quiz junkie to relish this column. We will bring you nuggets of our favourite city under any of the ?Cal? categories each week. So there could be Gastronomi-Cal, Histori-Cal, Topi-Cal, Comi-Cal, Physi-Cal, Typi-Cal, Politi-Cal, or even Lexi-Cal. This week, it?s a Puja special! Let?s get Mysti-Cal.