Events everywhere
March 17, 2014:
Saturday and Sunday (March 15 and
16) turned out to super
hectic. On March 15 I had about 17 invitations
to attend – an impossible task.
The list of invitations were:
·
Annual Basant Utsav
programme of Dona Ganguly’s school called
Disha Manjari
·
Hasya Kavi Sammelan by
Sanskriti Sagar at
Birla Sabhaghar
·
Farewell of the Consul General of Japan Mr Mitsuo Kawaguchi and Mrs
Masako Kawaguchi over a cocktails and dinner at the Crystal
Room, Taj Bengal
·
The inauguration of “Aaleya” – an
exhibition of designer candles by Bonnya Bose
·
Literary event at The Taj Bengal
with author and Wiccan
high priestess Ipsita Roy Chakraverti, legendary
national award winning actress, Sarika, and
film maker Anjan Dutta
·
British Council organised the
launch of A God in Every Stone
by Kamila Shamsie who was in conversation with
Ruchir Joshi
·
Rangleela, a Holi
program organized by Madhuwan.
An evening of music and dance composed by Bickram Ghosh. Dancing the
ghoomar and
dandiya while
the children enjoyed a Phoolo
ki Holi. Sumptuous food from the
Malwa and Pali
regions with losts of
chaat and thandai.
·
And then there was a book event of Dayanita
Singh and her mother Nony Singh at Max Mueller
Bhavan.
I thank God that two
of the events scheduled for 15th
first, Arindam Sil’s
press announcement of his 2nd film Ebar
Shabor over a small get together over
cocktails & dinner at the Tangerine
Banquet at Silver
Springs and
second one at the Corner Courtyard
were shifted.
Apart from these,
there was Birju Maharaj's performance at
Radhashyam Goenka’s residence; three Holi
dinners and four Holi get-togethers
organized by Rajasthani
organizations. An invitation from Fatehpur
Shekhawati Pragati Sangh to celebrate
Holi at
Bika Banquets, 76/1, Golaghat Main Road (between
Ultadanga and
Laketown).
Not just me, it was
impossible for anyone to to attend so many events. So I just decided
to go to Dona and Saurav Ganguly’s house
to watch Disha Manjari’s Basant Utsav
and I really enjoyed it.
And then I went to the Birla Sabhaghar
for kavi sammelan
and I took a break and went to Taj
Bengal where I said hello to the Wiccan
high priestess and black magic woman Ipsita Roy.
After the kavi
sammelan I went to the newly-opened
Smoke House at
the Quest Mall with
few friends and did not go to that part of the Quest
Mall as I thought that if I was not
going to any of the other parties, I should
be fair and not go to this one.
I really wanted to attend two of the
events which I missed. One was Birju Maharaj’s performance and the
second one was the farewell of the Consul-General of Japan Mr Mitsuo
Kawaguchi and Mrs Masako Kawaguchi.
I was much relieved
when Mr Agarwal told me that Birju Maharaj
would perform again next month. As for the
Consul General of Japan, a good friend of mine,
I shall speak to him
over phone try meet him before he leaves the city for Japan.
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| At the Agarwal residence |
From Mr Agarwal’s
residence I went to Hastings Park
for the birthday celebrations of Meenu Juneja. It was nice of her
husband, Ramesh Juneja, to organize such a gala noon to celebrate is
wife’s 50th birthday.
There were
especially designed T-shirts, colours, separate seating arrangements
for those who don’t want to play with colours, full bar and variety
of cuisine and tastefully decorated Holi
theme.
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| With Meenu Juneja |
After wishing Meenu
many happy returns of the day, I left early. I still had a busy
evening ahead. In the evening I went the
Kavi Sammelan at
G D Birla
Sabhaghar again
but this time it was a South Calcutta
Shri Jain Swetamber Terapanthi Sabha
“Hashya Kavi Sammelan”
and before returning home went to Dilip Jaiswal’s Holi
get-together at his residence in Dover
Lane.
Today afternoon
I will go to the Hyatt
Regency as a special Holi
party has been organized there.
ess bee
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