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March 26, 2011 Surprise invitation Yesterday evening I hosted a post-screening dinner for the film Life Goes On on behalf of Prabha Khaitan Foundation in association with The Conclave. The director of the film, UK-based …
March 25, 2011 Project Pronam Today afternoon I went to the police headquarters at Lal Bazar to discuss about Project Pronam and also to meet the new Police Commissioner R K Pachnanda. First I met …
March 21, 2011 Holi and Dol Every year the Holi weekend is always full of interesting programmes and events. This time there was the reception of the Ireland and Dutch cricket teams at The Oberoi Grand …
March 17, 2011 No sense, no sensibility Last few days were full of events – interactive session with Jeffrey Archer, Kavi Sammelans, Holi get togethers, engagements, wedding functions and others. In one of the wedding receptions at …
March 13, 2011 Birthdays, weddings, puja and adda Today Sunday I shall leave Kolkata for Jaipur by afternoon flight. Yesterday I attended the birthday party of Mou Roy Chowdhury (picture) at the Royal Bengal Room in City Centre …
March 11, 2011 In the company of Lord Jeffrey Archer Last evening I attended an interactive session with Lord Jeffrey Archer (picture) at The Bengal Club. It was a gathering of about 70 people and I was invited by Siddharth …
March 9, 2011 End of winter sojourn I met Somnath Chatterjee yesterday at his south Kolkata residence. While I was in Delhi he had called me up saying he wanted to see me. He told me that …
March 8, 2011 Q for queues From the terrace suite of Hyatt Hotel, during my recent stay in Delhi, I had been watching a sizeable number of people queue up before a gate across the road …
March 6, 2011 Events aplenty It was a busy Saturday as I returned to Kolkata from Delhi by Friday night flight. Dinesh Trivedi, MP, was on the next seat and had quite a chat with …
March 5, 2011 Bengali poems and Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann In one of my blogs few days back, I had written about how Ashok Vajpeyi, head of Lalit Kala Akademi, had shared with me his experience in USA about a …
March 4, 2011 Meeting up with old friends The weather in Delhi got a little colder since last week probably due to the snowfall in Himachal. I enjoy this kind of weather very much. I had lunch with …
March 2, 2011 Bengali poems and a Nobel laureate It was a routine busy day today in Delhi. I met Ashok Vajpeyi over lunch. Ashok Vajpeyi, who heads Lalit Kala Akademi, is well known in the cultural circuit. We …
