Keeping up with events in Jaipur and Kolkata

Friday, December 23, 2011: I returned from Jaipur today morning for which I took the morning flight. I seldom avail of this flight. The Jaipur trip was very fruitful as the Desert Souls series was rather well accepted by the media and the city’s cultural circuit.

While in Jaipur, I attended the pre-nuptial function of an old family friend Mr V S Singh’s daughter Ankita. Though the wedding is taking place today, I had to get back to Kolkata as I had committed to attend a function at the West Bengal Assembly House where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is the Chief Guest. So I made it a point to attend the pre-wedding function on December 22nd itself.

Though Mamata Banerjee could not make it to the function – the 58th Annual Chrysanthemum & Flower Show, 2011 (picture) – Partha Chatterjee, Hon’ble-Minister-in-Charge, Departments of Commerce & Industry, Parliamentary Affairs, Public Enterprises, Industrial Reconstruction and IT, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, Chief Government Whip, Sonali Guha (Bose), Hon’ble Deputy Speaker, West Bengal Legislative Assembly and Biman Banerjee, Hon’ble Speaker, West Bengal Legislative Assembly and Patron-in-Chief, Calcutta Flower Growers’ Association, were there.

This function was scheduled to begin at 3 pm but had to be postponed to 5 pm. This gave me a chance to attend the Polo Tournament at the Pat Williamson Ground.

I also met the General Manager of Taj Bengal, K Mohanchandran as today’s cup was sponsored by Taj Bengal as it was Taj Bengal’s day in this Polo season in Kolkata.

Today’s polo match is one of the most interesting matches that I have seen.

I met Raj Mehthani, Rahul Sood, Shalini Nopany (pictures) who was clicking photos from the Press Gallery.

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