Page 2 - Offbeat
Subir Roy: There is a Shangri-La
"It's pouring here in Bengaluru," our friend said on the phone, even as we sweltered in Kolkata's humid heat waiting for rains that just passed us by
Subir Roy: The deodars point to the heavens
Jalori Pass and its environs offer a lesson on the current state of nature tourism in the hills
Subir Roy: Small is large in Tabo
When my Himachal Roadways bus to Kaza in Spiti valley passed Tabo nearly a decade ago, I promised I would come back someday and stay there
Subir Roy: The people's language has arrived
Belonging to another era, the boards bearing that sign have got worn out and virtually disappeared
Subir Roy: Minimum sense on Maximum City
A draft development plan seeking to chalk out the trajectory that Mumbai will take over the next 20 years to 2034 had been published last year and immediately trashed
Subir Roy: 'RSVP, regrets only'
Few know what RSVP stands for in its original French form
Subir Roy: Just wait till Nano does a Beetle
We're just back from Puri, declared the friend who, with his wife, made up the foremost travelling couple among us travel-obsessed friends
Subir Roy: As luck would have it
I was overjoyed when I cast my first glance at the morning paper: Raghavan Srinivasan had been made editor of his newspaper. It was a long journey, one which began nearly three decades ago. The vice-chairman, who was just getting the hang of his domain, had a novel proposition for me. Could I take a look at this youngster from the marketing department and see if he would fit the bill in editorial - or at least the part of it which I oversaw? The youngster wanted to leave as he didn't find his job exciting, and the vice-chairman saw something in him which made him (the vice-chairman) want to keep the fellow back.The vice-chairman was younger than most of us whom he had brought into the Delhi office laterally to usher in a generation change in the formidable old institution. He used us as the medium through which he tried out his ideas - sometimes strikingly innovative, sometimes simply far out. A regular senior editor of the paper would have thrown a fit on facing such a proposition, co
