Wish all our members “Subho Bijoya” . Hope all had a very good Durga Puja. The mailing list is getting more mails these days showing the sign of increased participation. We are publishing our member list now in pdf format. The status is till Aug 2007. Please follow a separate post above this.
mobile no of Manideep
Minds at Work for Reunion 2007
I’m going to post here two snaps of the last Governing Body meeting which I could attend on 2nd week of Aug 2007. We met at Benuda’s thek to discuss about the Reunion. Here goes the snaps –
From left : Dr. Surajit Ghosh, Dr. Indranil Sen, Shri Suparna Pathak, Shri Rudrarup Basu, Shri Pradip Neogi and Shri Binoy Chakraborti.
Here is another –
U need to figure out me here !
Reunion 2007
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 –
- Shri Binoy Chakrobarti – 9830260485
- Shri Pradip Neogi – 9331026321
- 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.
Formation of Sub Committees
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 :
- Liason Committee
- Dr. Dhrabajyoti Roy – Convenor
- Dr. Sadananda Bhattacharyya
- Dr. Ashoke Das
- Mr. Abhijit Lahiri
- Mr. Binoy Chakraborti
- Program and Cultural Committee
- Dr. Indranil Sen – Convenor
- Mr. Biswajit Bardhan
- Mr. Pranab Roy
- Mr. Sanjib Dey
- Mr. Pradeep Neogi
- Communication and Networking Committee
- Mr. Purajit Roy – Convenor
- Mr. Jashojiban Banik
- Mr. Ram Kumar Pattanaik
- Mr. Rudrarup Basu
- Mr. Gopeshwar Mondal
- 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.
New Governing Body
Sorry for a delayed post !
The association met in its annual general meeting on 29th Oct 2006. Several issues were discussed. A new committee was formed unanimously to run the association in comming days. The committee consists of :
- Dr. Surajit Ghosh – President
- Dr. Dhrubajyoti Roy – Vice President
- Sri Suprana Pathak – Asst. Secretary
- Dr. Indranil Sen – Asst. Secretary
- Sri Dibakar Paul – Treasurer
- Sri Purajit Roy – Member
- Sri Abhijit Lahiri – Member
- Sri Biswajit Bardhan – Member
- Sri Binoy Chakraborti – Member
- Sri Rudrarup Basu – Member
- Sri Pradeep Neogi – Member
- Sri Anindya Chowdhuri – Member &
- Sri Debansu Saha – Secretary
The meeting also decided to form few sub-committees to emphasise activities in specific areas. The newly formed GB was entrusted to form those committees.
New Yahoo Group for 69 Batch
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.
It begun at 8
Did it rain on August 6? If it did, no one really cared inside the hall. With Mr Pradip Ghosh recounting his days in the school, they were too busy taking a personal journey down memory lane to care about anything else. As he talked about the relations with the teachers, the quest for excellence as a human being that the school tried to imbibe in its students and how the alma mater acted as the incubator for what he is right now found approving nods from an audience that straddled an amazing spectrum of age groups. A cluster of doctors with body language chanting success in their profession and salt and pepper mane vouching for their experience, another cluster with liquid voice and aggressive stance screaming loudly about their affiliation to the world of techies, yet another with measured steps low voice saying they were the bankers—they were a melange of exactly that, a collection of heterogeneous groups. But as the evening wore on the groups meshed and turned into one single entity – Alumni of Narendranath Vidyamandir.
Did the group that worked relentlessly for nearly two years for this day dare to think about such success? The answer is an unequivocal ‘no’. And they had their reasons. A venue away from the school premises naturally act as a deterrent to bring the ex-students together specially during the initial years. With a strongly entrenched legacy of a few years, the venue ceases to matter as the network of students takes up a life of its own. The next was the question of spreading the word. Yes, we had a website. But the access was not universal. How many among the ex-students were regular surfers? So advertisements were a must. If they were, what would be the strategy? How would it be funded?
Like kids, a few reasonably busy professionals took time off from their commitments and engaged themselves in animated debates about the strategy to make this reunion a true platform for holding aloft the tradition of excellence that the alma mater espoused. While Surojitda with his wry smile encouraged a debate on every point, Dhruboda affectionately helped the group reach a compromise whenever there was no solution in sight. Purojit with his corporate experience and scarce presence provided the much needed fine-tuning while Pradip preferred to liaise over phone always assuring his vital support for what would later transpire to be a historic day. Binoy, the businessman, was ever the task allotter and Indranil, the doctor professor, never failed to cut the t’s and dot the I’s. Debansu with computer and wide caste network at his disposal kept the entire team on their toes so much so that I, the itinerant, got reminded of my duties even when I was busy completing immigration formalities in a foreign airport.
But even with all this, we were not sure how it would turn out to be. At 3 pm on August 6 as I drove towards the venue, thoughts kept speeding by. Would we be able to pull it off? So much of hard work – what would be the response? And as I reached to find a deserted venue, the thoughts turned into panic. This was not a good omen. But with little else to do, I sat down with a cup of tea and watched the busy movements of the cook and his helpers preparing the food. I started to approximate the proportion of waste as a teaser to while the time away. And then came the knock. ‘Hallo! Is this the venue of the school reunion? I am coming from Halishahar.’ Instantly, my trepidation turned into elation as I sensed a successful evening ahead. If the news had traveled so far and had inspired someone to journey so much to attend the reunion, it could never fail.
And it did not. By the time our fellow alumnus and the current law minister of West Bengal, Mr Rabilal Maitra walked in, the hall had started to look busy. With people meeting each other after decades, reliving the past, hugging and introducing their families it was fast moving into an occasion of bonding across generations of alumni. It was revealing to hear one of the parents of the students felicitated by us for their performance in the board examination comment, ‘Who knew that the school had bred so much of success!’
The ground outside the venue was fast filling up with as many as there were inside. This was a sure sign that the function inside would soon turned redundant! And sure it was. As the magician grabbed the stage to entertain the kids, the entire contingent walked out into the open and the real reunion begun. It was then just 8 in the evening.
Post script: This text ought to have been in Bengali. But as the Internet does not support the software that I use, Debansu forced me to write it in English. His claim, he would be able to bypass the compositor. So my apologies.
The Reunion 2006
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 !
Reunion 2006 – Program
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 –
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.