Booming Bengal beckons
On January 8 and 9, Kolkata will host the Bengal Global Business Summit, an annual event. West Bengal...
By Derek O’Brien January 17, 2016Derek O’Brien, a renowned quizmaster, is chief whip of the Trinamool Congress in Rajya Sabha and its national spokesperson. He won the award for Best Anchor in 2003.
On January 8 and 9, Kolkata will host the Bengal Global Business Summit, an annual event. West Bengal...
By Derek O’Brien January 17, 2016I have been in Parliament for close to four years now, but participating in the deliberations on...
By Derek O’Brien December 20, 2015Anybody who has visited Kolkata would tell you few other cities have such a taste and flavour for food....
By Derek O’Brien November 01, 2015My first experience of electoral politics came 15 years ago, when I was voted in as president of The...
By Derek O’Brien September 20, 2015This summer, I took a short break and visited New York. Since then, it is back to the nitty-gritty of...
By Derek O’Brien July 12, 2015In the 1890s, my mother’s grandfather joined the Bengal Nagpur Railway. For my family, this began a...
By Derek O’Brien March 18, 2015One of the blockbuster announcements of this year’s railway budget was the bullet train. To be...
By Derek O’Brien March 18, 2015Did the writer spend a significant time of his or her formative years in Kolkata?Was the writer...
By Derek O’Brien March 18, 2015My wife lives in New York, and, over the years, I have got to know the city well. It is a useful...
By Derek O’Brien March 18, 2015While in school, my sport of choice was football. I was a goalkeeper of some reckoning in local and...
By Derek O’Brien March 18, 2015After President Pranab Mukherjee, it is now Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan who has cautioned against...
By Derek O’Brien March 16, 2015Watching Arvind Kejriwal’s speech at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan shortly after he was sworn in as chief...
By Derek O’Brien May 03, 2015