The big fat IPL format has made the dull months of April and May boom time in Calcutta. With the shortest form of cricket gaining in popularity, cash tills are ringing all over ' hotels, malls, restaurants and retail stores.
A cluster of 57 colleges on the northern fringes of the city will this year make the switch from Calcutta University to one that has no campus, no vice-chancellor, no administrative team; not even a temporary office.