After a month and a half or so on Facebook, I have arrived at the assessment that Facebook chatter is a modern technologically advanced international version of the traditional Calcutta Bengali “adda”. I came to this conclusion while trying to explain the phenomenon to my father who was born during the First World War.
Subroto Roy, Kolkata
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September 3, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Dr Roy’s assessment is funny
but yes, to anyone who knows what a Kolkata Bengali adda is, it is true!