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Dear Friends, on behalf of our association we pay our respectful homage to the departed sole of our beloved teacher Rama Bhattacharyya who left us on 2nd May 2010and also express our heartfelt sympathy to her believed family.

অন্যবারের মত এবারেও বিদ্যালয়ে সরস্বতী পূজা হয়েছে । গোপেস্বরদা , সুরজিত্দা ও আরো অনেকে ওইদিন সন্ধ্যায় স্কুলে যান । বিভিন্ন বিষয় নিয়ে আলোচনা হয় । সুরজিত্দা এই ছবিটা পাঠিয়েছেন । আমি আপলোড করলাম ।

-দেবাংশু

আমাদের প্রিয় প্রাক্তন প্রধান শিক্ষক কৃষ্ণ চন্দ্র চক্রবর্তী মহাশয় গত ৫ই ডিসেম্বর প্রয়াত হয়েছেন । আমরা সংগঠনের সকল সদস্য এই সংবাদে শোকাহত । সংগঠন তার আত্মার শান্তি কামনা করছে ও তার পরিবারের সকলের প্রতি সমবেদনা জানাচ্ছে ।

– দেবাংশু

Its long since I announced a site migration plan in our mailing list. Its done now. We are on a new server space for next three years. We have 2 GB of space and 100 email ids. Lets celebrate. I shall be shooting a separate mail shortly telling you about the new features we are planning to bring in to the site. But first and foremost we need contributors so that people, mainly fellow alumni come back to our site time and again. Thanks for now.

When it comes to matters of records, the current secretary seems to be hopelessly out of date. The AGM was held on May 25, 2008. The fact that I have not had the opportunity to post the updates is inexcusable. However here is the new committee.

1)Anindya Chowdhury (batch of ’83)

2) Avijit Lahiri (batch of ’77)

3) Binoy Chakraborty (batch of ’80)

4) Biswajit Bardhan (batch of ’80)

5) Dhrubajyoti Roy (batch of ’69) (Vice president)

6) Dibakar Pal (batch of ’95) (Treasurer)

7) Gopeswar Mondal (batch of ’67)

8) Indranil Sen (batch of ’82) (Asst Secy)

9) Pradip Neogi (batch of ’83) (Asst Secy)

10) Rudrarup Basu (batch of ’80)

11) Suparna Pathak (batch of ’76) (Secretary)

12) Ranjan Bhattacharya (batch of ’77)

13) Surojit Ghosh (batch of 69) (President)

14) Debansu stays on in the committee by virtue of being the immediate past secretary of the association.

Subsequently, the committee members have sat down twice to consider the future course of action. One on 26.07.08 and the other on 10.08.08. One must mention in passing that the last one was really memorable due to the individual touches of Benu and Pradip. The committee members had a delectable lunch, courtesy Pradip and Benu. Benu’s wife made the daal and menu comprised daal, aalu bhaja and mangsor jhol. There was chatni for the ‘sesh pater’ touch along with misti doi. If you are lolling, it can’t be helped. It indeed is a privilege to have Pradip and Benu as the hosts. But we are digressing. Let us get down to the more serious business.
Most of the members, by now, know that we begun our journey as the school completed its 50 years. The intention was to initiate a network of old boys and through the network, initiate actions to benfit the school. Whatever that we stand for today has largely been due to the school. And the old boys’ network is meant to be the vehicle to show our gratitude to the school.
Recognition of board achievers: Those of you who have been following the activities of the alumni association would know that we have started giving out medallions in the names of Dinesh babu to the best scorer in Madhyamik, Samanta babu to the highest scorer in Physics, Subir babu to the highest scorer in Bengali, Nikhil babu to the highest scorer in English. This year we are adding one more to the list. The highest scorer in Higher Secondary would get a medallion in the name of Nagen babu.
Need-based scholarship: The committee has also decided to institute need-based scholarships to five students from the primary section of the school. Under this programme, the association will pay the fees and buy the books for the selected students. The selection criteria will be decided by a committee of ex-teachers along with three GB members two of whom also happen to be teachers. The proposed committee will comprise Dr Indranil Sen and Avijit Lahiri, Subodh babu and Arobindo babu. Biswajit Bardhan will be the legal pillar of the committee. The terms of reference for the committee is simple. It will lay down the selection criteria that will decide the winners. The association will provide the funding.

Reunion and funding: To run such activities on a scale that would appeal and will also have an impact we need fund. But this cannot be generated through the efforts of a handful. It took us three years to confidently get involved in the scholarship programme. Ideally, a programme of this nature should have a tenure of more than a year. But till such time we are assured of a regular flow, we cannot really commit ourselves to the programme. Neither can we commit ourselves to a corpus, that could provide instant help to our members in case of medical emergencies. So it is an earnest request to all of you to please come forward and join us in the effort to raise funds for the association.
So what will we do in the forthcoming reunion? Apart from Benu’s attempt to rope in Nachiketa, we will felicitate Kesto babu and Rama di. And the rest of the evening will be devoted to forging new bonds and renewing old ties.
Suparna Pathak

Friends,

I need to remove this from site because of technical reason – crossing allowed bandwidth. Pls mail me in person who want to see the video – I’ll try to set it up in some free server and give you the link on some later date.

So finally we got some Reunion 2007 photos – thanks Sankarda (Sankar Bera – 85 batch Madhyamic) . Here they goes ;

The glittering Yamuna Bhawan – venue of the event.

Everybody mourning the passing away of our beloved teachers and students.

Dr. Indranil Sen, with the opening song ( man you cann’t forget the old songs even – how you teach current generatin now ! ).

The veteran speaker – in and out of class , on his nostalgia.

Song by a professional fortunately our alumnus too – Sugota Chattopadhayay .

Biswajit Bardhan – a prety known face in Baranagar circuit – remmembering his past.

The listneing crowd.

Dibakar and Subhrangshu – hard workers at registration desk.

Awards for 2007 excellent performers in school – We are commited towards overall excellence of our Alma mater.

Thats Supranada – the sole poster ( contributor would be a better word for the less netizans ) other than me in this site 🙁

Friends I’m late. Late since we barely have 20 days left for our Reunion of this year and this post is going on web now. Though there are reasons for this delay but those are more personal than organizational and I’m solely responsible for the delayed post / update. Please target all bricks at me.
Since its always better to be late than never and now since my home infrastructure for the Internet connectivity here at Bangalore, was enabled yesterday, I decided to do the post. Our Reunion 2007 will be held on 2nd September 2007 at Yamuna Bhawan Bon Hooghly. The same place where we met last year and enjoyed the evening remembering our glorious past and chanting “Purano Sei Diner Kotha” with Dhrubada in the lead. This year we decided to go in a different way towards the organizing part of the event. A nine member organizing committee was formed with the persons below :

• Shri Rabilal Moitra – Chairman
• Dr. Ashoke Das – Jt. Vice Chairman
• Shri. Gopeswar Mondal – Jt. Vice Chairman
• Shri Suparna Pathak – Jt. Secretary
• Shri Binnoy Chakrobarti – Jt. Secretary
• Shri Mridul Dutta – Member
• Dr. Sudipto Roy – Member
• Shri Ratan Banerjee – Member
• Dr. Sadananda Bhattacharyya – Member

All of them are quite famous and need no introduction. Like previous year we will release advertisement in newspaper, local cable TV network and host festoons in the locality. We have plans to get to your homes too. We are in the process of releasing letters / cards by post or courier. So please join our hands and inform fellow alumni known to you about the event . Let us make 2nd September a memorable day !
For any query do contact –

1. Shri Binoy Chakrobarti – 9830260485
2. Shri Pradip Neogi – 9331026321
3. Shri Biswajit Bardhan – 9831344828

Please do attend the event with your family so that they also share something from our past and the BNNVAA fraternity grows.