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June 22, 2010 Prabha Khaitan Award The Calcutta Chamber of Commerce (CCC) today organised a function at the Horticulture Garden to confer the Prabha Khaitan Award 2008 to Shanu Lahiri. The Governor of West Bengal M …
June 21, 2010 Kolkata’s Raj Bhawan Went to the Raj Bhawan in Kolkata today to meet the Governor M K Narayanan. It was a courtesy call and I took the opportunity to brief him about my …
June 20, 2010 Our evergreen versatile Lala da Received a letter from Lala da Buddhadev Guha (file picture) acknowledging the book I had sent him. He informed me that he was not keeping well and was thus out …
June 19, 2010 `Bongs in Bangkok’ controversy The recent Film Award Bangla (FAB) ’10 in Bangkok or the `Bongs in Bangkok’ controversy rages on. I got many phone calls. While some are expressing their solidarity with Rituparna …
June 18, 2010 Big, messy and now murkier The recently concluded Film Award Bangla ’10 (FAB) affair at Bangkok is getting murkier with allegations and counter allegations flying in fast and thick. Rituparna called up soon after her …
June 17, 2010 Thoughts on theatre I was in office since morning but wrapped up the day with Shiladitya Ganguly, Bratya Basu and Locket Chatterjee over dinner at my home. Bratya (file picture), a well-known theatre …
June 16, 2010 All iz well Yesterday, I once again went down to the hotel lobby to catch up with Arpita, Saheb and few of their local friends. Had coffee and pastries and by the time …
June 15, 2010 Bonding in Bangkok Today evening went to attend a dinner hosted by the local Bengali community. Tony, Pauli Dam and others were there with me. Dhritiman Chatterjee and others from Ekta Tarar Khonje …
June 14, 2010 Big but messy From Bangkok: It is twilight hour 4 am. Arindam, Gargi Roy Chowdhury and some other friends left my hotel in the wee hours after having dinner. Today there was an …
June 13, 2010 Bong connection and Bangkok From Hotel Hyatt Erawan in Bangkok: It was rough weather bumpy flight. Reached Bangkok today afternoon.I have been here several times for various reasons. I normally put up at the …
June 12, 2010 Keeping up with Kolkata Yesterday afternoon had a meeting with the Calcutta Chamber of Commerce officials regarding the Prabha Khaitan Puraskar that was constituted by the corpus donated by Prabha Khaitan Foundation when my …
June 11, 2010 Looking forward to Bangkok awards The last 3 or 4 days I wasn’t very busy but it wasn’t easy either. I missed more events than I attended and kept myself busy reading some books. The …
