With Jaya Bacchan at the Birla Sabhaghar

March 17, 2015: Yesterday I went to the G D Birla Sabhaghar for the inauguration of Theatre Festival titled “Pratibimb”. The festival will be on from March 16 to 18 and three plays “No Ordinary Love”, “Hum Mukhtara” and “A Million Sitas” would be presented during the three days.

Jaya Bachchan, Member of Parliament, and veteran actress of India, was there to grace the opening of the Festival.

Before the staging of yesterday’s play, I presented a cheque along with her to the differently-abled student from the Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy.

Jaya Bachchan, in her short speech, spoke about women power and requested that everybody should raise a voice for women as she does in the Parliament. I met many people from the city’s social circuit thanks to Jayabrato Chatterjee and his daughter Sahana.

Today evening there is a dinner hosted by the Honorary Consul of Ireland in Kolkata Mr Mahendra K Jalan at the The Oberoi Grand Ballroom to mark St Patrick’s Day. As I shall be travelling overseas either tomorrow or the day after, I will give it a miss as there’s a lot of desk work in office to be cleared.

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