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July 12, 2013 Dinner with Hon’ble President 11 July, 2013: I arrived in city from Jaipur yesterday evening and missed out the Silver Jubilee Wedding Anniversary party of Sunil and Sunita Kanoria. In Jaipur, the dinner hosted …
July 8, 2013 Unscheduled Jaipur visit July 8, 2013: I arrived in Jaipur today morning. It is an un-scheduled visit. I got an invitation from Raj Bhawan for a dinner with the Hon’ble President of India, Shri …
July 7, 2013 In the name of relief While co-ordinating with different NGOs and small support groups in Uttarakhand in the wake of the recent Himalayan tsunami, I realized that there was hardly any effective co-ordination between the …
July 4, 2013 Film premiere and American National Day July 4, 2013: Tuesday evening, the fourth time in close succession, I was again at Priya Cinema for the premiere of Rituparna Sengupta’s film A Political Murder. This new film of Agnidev …
June 30, 2013 Disastrous disaster management The whole of last week I was busy coordinating with the different NGOs supporting relief work for the `Himalayan Tsunami’. As the un-official death toll mounted to thousands and still …
June 29, 2013 At the premiere of C/O Sir June 29, 2013: Friday evening I was again at Priya Cinema for the premiere of Kaushik’s new film C/O Sir. It is for the first in so many years that my stay in …
June 26, 2013 “Smoothies, Shakes and Sandwiches” June 26, 2013: Today morning I hosted a get-together at the Junction Pub of Taj Bengal in honour of Mamata Sharma, the current Chairperson of National Commission for Women in New Delhi, who was …
June 23, 2013 Rituals that linger on The government has decided to pull down the curtains on 160-year old telegram service in India from the mid July 2013. This once invaluable service in our era of SMS …
June 21, 2013 At the Ganesh Talkies premiere June 21, 2013: Today evening I went to Priya Cinema to see the premiere show of Anjan Dutta-directed film Ganesh Talkies. It was nice of him to not only invite me in …
June 18, 2013 Respite by default June 18, 2013: Cancelling of my UK trip has all of a sudden left me with a whole month to myself with not much on the agenda. This is very …
June 16, 2013 Marwari women – unshackling the entrepreneurial spirit The business acumen of Marwari men is well known and an established fact. Strangely, the Marwari women, traditionally confined to the four walls of their house carrying out family chores, …
June 15, 2013 UK trip called off June 15, 2013: On Thursday morning, that is June 13, 2013, I was booked to go to the UK. Somehow this year the overseas trip did not mature at the …
