A hands-down week

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and today, all the four days were easy and relaxing, I did not attend any public function but took time out on Monday to be at the private screening of Moner Manush with Prasenjit, Gautam Ghosh and others.

The music, songs, locales and above all the acting of Prasenjit and his make up as Lalan was amazing.

Based on Sunil Gangopadhya’s story, the film has been directed by Gautam Ghosh. The film’s release date is yet to be fixed. I have been hearing a lot about this film for the past one year from different quarters of the Bangla filmdom.

I remember during the launch of Soumitra Chatterjee Trust, Prasenjit was shooting for this film and had attended that function sporting a beard that he had grown for role played in the film (picture).

Sunil da is in the United States at present and I miss his advice regarding The Bengal and other events (file picture). 
I spoke to him over phone yesterday and he said he would be back by August 12 or so.

On Monday there was a brief meeting with students regarding the Education of All project.

In the past three days Kolkata had some interesting events, especially the release of the Bengali version of Amartya Sen’s book by Somnath Chatterjee at the ICCR. 
I could not attend this function and also other functions in the city during these three days and I am planning to skip today’s and Friday’s events as well. 

It is good to do some deskwork that is essential for streamlining the meetings and the programmes.

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