Month: June 2009

The state of West Bengal was badly hit by cyclone Aila on 24th and 25th May 2009. Devastations are massive. An estimated 40 lakh people have lost their homes. I don’t have the exact figure of death and other indirect losses. Humanity in the southern bengal region is in crisis. At this situation we, as an organisation of the state, can’t sit idle – ( thats what my instinct says ) .In view of the magnitude of the disaster the alumni association has decided to donate Rs 20000/- to Bharat Sevashram. In order to help the association stay engaged in such activities please donate to the association’s fund whatever amount that might consider appropriate. Those who are in Kolkata and close to the EC members of the association please contact Surajitda / Suparnada / Binoyda / Indranilda / Pradipda etc. directly. Those who are remote like me please transfer your donation to the associations bank account . The details of the same is :

In favour of Baranagar Narendranath Vidyamandir Alumni Association
State Bank of India , Cossipore Branch
S/B AC No. 10774585290
IFSC Code : SBIN0002043

Once you have completed a successful transfer electronically, please update this post by commenting with your amount of transfer, date of transfer and transaction code ( if any ) . It will be easier for Dibakar to issue receipts of the contributions. Please remember at this point this donations are not tax rebatable since we as association have not yet received such a rebate tag.

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Its an unusual one. Ranjanda ( Ranjan Basu ) and his wife Tukundi drove me through 85 , 101 ( yeah these are the names of expressways there ) on the Santa Clara hills to see the Pacific . It was a bad day when cloud and rain played with us and we prayed for Sun. We discussed what could be done from the associations’ forum. Ranjanda was explaining his ideas on projects supporting students where they can be trained in areas of knowledge required by overseas Industry. He expressed his desire of providing active help on such projects as he learned all these skills from scratch during his struggle for existence when he landed in the U.S. with only under $ 100 bill in his pocket .

Attaching some of our moments here. We two –

Tukundi got us together

Here is the person –

And me now