Rahul Gandhi, scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty of the Indian National Congress headed by Sonia Gandhi has suddenly become active and is practically slamming Prime Minister Modi virtually every day. Since his return from what has been termed a sabbatical he has been latching on to any and every issue to fire charges at Prime […]

Originally posted on Proloybagchi's Weblog:
<a Temple of Baal href=”https://proloybagchi.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/images2.jpg”&gt; The photographs above are of Palmyra, an ancient Semitic city of Syria with some fantastic remains of its Greco-Roman period. An oasis that once used to be on a trade route was made into an amazingly beautiful city with it Hellenistic and Roman architecture.…

<a href=”https://proloybagchi.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/images2.jpg”&gt; The photographs above are of Palmyra, an ancient Semitic city of Syria with some fantastic remains of its Greco-Roman period. An oasis that once used to be on a trade route was made into an amazingly beautiful city with it Hellenistic and Roman architecture. For its universal value to humanity it was declared […]

Originally posted on Proloybagchi's Weblog:
Band playing on Swiss National Day A float participating in the parade People ride by on horse-driven four=wheelers A band playing in the village square Family gets together Versoix lake-front Wife, Bandana, outside the village My eldest brother worked through the late 1970s to late 1990s for GATT (General…

My eldest brother worked through the late 1970s to late 1990s for GATT (General Agreement for Trade & Tariff and now), an UN agency, as consultant to its Director General. He used to live in Versoix (pronounced Versoa) and go to work in Geneva. In 1987 he suggested to us to take a trip to […]

In the World Happiness Report of 2015 of the United Nations on 158 countries India has slipped from 111th place in 2013 to 117th. This, obviously, means that people in India have become unhappier during the last two years. The report covers the period from 2012 to 2014 and takes into account not just individual […]