Author: debansu

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.

In our last annual general meeting, the house felt the need of forming small groups on focused areas. The new governing body in its first meeting on 16th January 2007 discussed over the matter and decided to form four sub-committees of five members each. Below is the list of those committees along with the names of honourable members who are given the responsibility to work on those issues :

1. Liason Committee
• Dr. Dhrabajyoti Roy – Convenor
• Dr. Sadananda Bhattacharyya
• Dr. Ashoke Das
• Mr. Abhijit Lahiri
• Mr. Binoy Chakraborti
2. Program and Cultural Committee
• Dr. Indranil Sen – Convenor
• Mr. Biswajit Bardhan
• Mr. Pranab Roy
• Mr. Sanjib Dey
• Mr. Pradeep Neogi
3. Communication and Networking Committee
• Mr. Purajit Roy – Convenor
• Mr. Jashojiban Banik
• Mr. Ram Kumar Pattanaik
• Mr. Rudrarup Basu
• Mr. Gopeshwar Mondal
4. Finance Committee
• Mr. Suparna Pathak – Convenor
• Mr. Sanjay Ghosh
• Mr. Amal Bhattacharyya
• Mr. Anindya Chowdhuri
• Mr. Dibakar Paul

These committees will discuss among them and finalise their plan of action near future.

I have received the following information from Sankarda, Dr. Sankar Ranjan Mondal, presently in Bahamas, about formation of an yahoo group. Posting the mail excerpt without prejudice :

srmondal wrote:

— In BNNVclassof69 at yahoogroups.com, “srmondal” wrote:

With the help of local IT professional I have been able to start this
group for ourselves the Class of 1969 of Baranagor Narendranath
Vidyamandir. Please inform all our classmates to join this group and
add their whereabouts.
I find this is a nice way of being in touch, communicate ragularly and
share our feelings, wellbeings and memmories.
Long live our alma mater.
If any one of you can send me the website of our ex-students
association, I can link it to that site.

— End forwarded message —

I have changed the @ symbol with ‘at’ in the addresses to reduce robo spams to the addresses. Thanks for such a news Sankarda ! Hope all of 69 batch do also contribute to our basic website too.

Nostalgia ! everywhere.
Thats how it started. I’m waiting for a coverage of the event by an established ‘Kalamchi’ amongst us. I don’t think I’m fit for the job of depicting Pradipda, Sri Pradip Ghosh, noted recitor, in action with his nostalgia ! There are people who can do justice to Pradipdas’ recollections with their pen. Let them wake up and post something.
In the mean time lets share some photographs of the event. I just managed to get those from different people who were flashing their cameras.

He is Dr. Indranil Sen, an associate professor and one of the Joint Asst. Sec’s singing “Asoto Ma” during inauguration of Reunion 2006.

Our small stage. From left, 1. Sri Arobindo Ghosh, ex teacher. 2. Sri Pradip Ghosh, noted recitor. 3. Sri Rabilal Moitra – Hon’ble Minister in Charge Department of Law & Justice Govt. of West Bengal. 4. Dr. Surajit Ghosh, noted Oncologist and President of BNNVAA. Needless to say that 2, 3, 4 are all ex-students.

Dr. Surajit Ghosh at Presidential Welcome ! .

Sri Rabilal Moitra at his speech.

Sri Pradip Ghosh – at recollections !

The attentive audience.

Sri Suparna Pathak, noted Kalamchi and the other of the Joint Asst. Secretary, explaining the cause of the BNNVAA.

Alumi Supper – Hey not the last !

Friends,
Finally we are starting our festival of nostalgia, Reunion 2006, today the 6th August 2006, at “Yamuna Bhawan” 105. B. T. Road, Bon Hooghly, Kolkata. The celebration will start with registration at 4.00 P.M. sharp.

The tentative program is :

• Welcome address by the President, Dr. Surajit Ghosh– 5.15 P.M.
• Felicitation to Honourable Minister in Charge, Dept of Law & Justice, Govt. of West Bengal, Sri Rabilal Moitra, our alumnus and his recollection of our past – 5.30 P.M.
• Felicitation to Sri Pradip Ghosh, our alumnus and noted reciter, and his recollections – 5.45 P.M.
• Distribution of four memorial awards by the alumni association to the eligible students of our Alma Mater. This year the list of Award winner is –
  1. Dinesh Majumdar memorial Award, given to a student passing Madhyamic Pariksha for overall best performance in the school, for the year 2006 goes to Sri Jishnu Mukherjee.
  2. Nikhil Ranjan Bose memorial Award, given to a student passing Higher Secondary Examination for obtaining highest marks in English (2nd language) in the school, for the year 2006 goes to Sri Souvik Dey.
  3. Subirendra Mukhopadhyay memorial Award, given to a student passing Higher Secondary Examination for obtaining highest marks in Bengali (1st language) in the school, for the year 2006 goes to Sri Ramit Saha.
  4. Amiya Ranjan Samanta memorial Award, given to a student passing Higher Secondary Examination for obtaining highest marks in Physics in the school, for the year 2006 goes to Sri Saikat Dutta.

  from 6.00 P.M.

• Thanks by secretary – 6.20 P.M.
• Magic Show by Mr. Jiban Kumar – 6.25 to 7.25 P.M.
• Organised Adda compared by Sri Suparna Pathak from 7.30 to 8.30 P.M.
• Alumni Diner – 8.30 P.M. onwards.

Friends,
The first reunion of the Baranagar Narendranath Alumni Association will be held on 6th August 2006 3.30 P.M. onwards at “Yamuna Bhawan” , Boon Hooghly (Near BKC College). The event will be marked with nostalgic sharing, cultural program and dinner. You are cordially invited to attend the program with your spouse.

Following our principle of non wastage of fund and better organising the program, we have decided to make the participation contributory. A participation fee of Rs 100/- per unit (member and his spouse) have been fixed. You are requested to contact Binoy Chakrobarti or Dibakar Paul for collection of invitation cards against participation fee. The Governing body request your co-operation to make the program a great success. You are requested to inform fellow batchmates who have not yet become our member.

The reunion will also decide on holding of the Annual General Meeting. We are planning to upload a member directory here in our site. Updation of membership status will help us in doing so. Our website is interactive. Please give your feedback here in the site itself just below this.

The association will publish a souvenir “Swaranika” during this occassion. You can send short writings for publication in it. The work should reach me by 5th July 2006 at contact@bnnvalumni.org. We need advertisements. The contract form for accepting advertisement can be downloaded from here. Please use your contacts to get some advertisement for Swaranika.