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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 …
June 7, 2010 Indian politics Elections to fill up few of the Rajya Sabha seats are due in some states. The Upper House or `Council of States’ was originally meant for people who were adepts …
June 6, 2010 Working on a Sunday As I would be travelling again next week I decided to work on Sunday today and clear some of the pending work. Working on a Sunday at the end of …
June 4, 2010 Busy as a bee Kolkata as usual keeps me busy. There is much discussion about the Kolkata municipal elections results among my political friends. On Thursday evening I attended a function at Marwar in …
June 2, 2010 Italian National Day reception Today evening I attended an Italian National Day reception at The Taj Bengal organised by the Italian Consulate in Kolkata. I have very cordial relations with them for almost five …