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INDIA ME!

What follows is a conceptual idea for a video ad promoting international tourism to India. A much longer video could be added to it, expanding on what is teased in this. It could be a new part of the INCREDIBLE INDIA campaign, or it could be a new, stand alone campaign. The idea is very […]

dia-TRIBE: the global diabetes pandemic is an opportunity to grow medical tourism in West Bengal

Diabetes is a global epidemic.   At the moment, there are several hundred million people on the planet with diabetes, myself included. At the risk of sounding heartless, I see this as an opportunity. A medical tourism opportunity for West Bengal. When I was diagnosed diabetic I barely knew what the disease was. Although I […]

21st CENTURY ALCHEMY: TURNING EMPTY COAL MINES INTO TOURISM GOLD MINES

Holy moly Uncle Rollie, there are a lot of fucking people in this country! With India’s population at 1.3 billion, I do mean fucking people quite literally. The insane number of people in India creates a mind boggling number of mind numbing challenges, not the least of which is creating jobs for them. West Bengal, […]

THE HEART OF INDIA: how to rebrand West Bengal to attract international tourists

In the summer of 2004  I was the campaign manager for my buddy BIG Ben Mahony,, when he attempted to run for parliament, in the Yukon, for the fabled Parti Rhinoceros Party. Him being a rookie Rhino, you could say I was BIG Ben’s beast of burden. As the leader-schmeader of the Rhinos, part of […]

Banglar Lokoitihas O Lokosanskriti

Birutjatio Sahitya Sammiloni Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on whatsapp Share on email Add to Cart নির্বাক বাল্মীকি কবিতা সংকলন কবিতা সংকলন নির্বাক বাল্মীকি ‘নির্বাক বাল্মীকি’ ধ্বনি থেকে কবিতা হয়ে ওঠার পথের ছবি— যেখানে কথক কখনও নির্বাক, কখনও শব্দহীনতায় বাঙ্ময়, কখনও বৃষ্টিভেজা, আবার কখনও রাজ্য সড়কের সমান্তরাল। ‘দেশ জানে না কতটা বিদ্বেষ করলে  […]

Bangla-American Poetry Project

Bangla-American Poetry Project Bangla-American Poetry Project বাংলা আমেরিকান কবিতা প্রকল্প Bangla-American Poetry Project Poetry is dream, dance, song, prayer; the keeper of language and languages; sanctuary from profit; sanity’s ancestor; the portal to more worlds; drain in the swamp of misinformation; thorn in the buttock of the thoughtless; the healing elder in the garden of […]

Crossing Many Seas

Birutjatio Sahitya Sammilani Crossing Many Seas Travelogue Chitrita Devi Translated from Bengali by Somdatta Mandal This translation from Bengali of Ms. Chitrita Devi’s travelogue Onek Sagar Periye is a collection of seven different segments of her travel to the West. In April 1947 Chitrita, along with her husband and daughter, set sail for England.  The […]