Twin wedding functions in city

Last Sunday, June 12^th, was a busy one. In the morning I went to The Oberoi Grand for lunch. The occasion was the engagement of Neeta and Ghanshyam Sarda's daughter Prerna with Abhinav, son of Tapoti and Amitabh Jhunjhunwala.

The Oberoi ballroom was very graciously decorated and the Kolkata’s industrialists were present in full strength. The groom and the in-laws are from Mumbai and some of the elite industrialists from Mumbai were also present including Anil and Tina Ambani.

Among the politicians present there for the lunch were Praful Patel, Prem Gupta, Saugata Roy, Subroto Mukherjee, Dinesh Trivedi and many others. Vidhu Vinod Chopra from the Mumbai film world was also there.

In the evening I went to The Taj Bengal for the wedding reception of Chandralekha and Jagmohan Dalmia’s son Avishek (picture) with Koeli – daughter of Sharmila and Late Shantanu Mitter.

At this wedding reception there were a number of sports personalities including Kapil Dev, Bishan Singh Bedi, Sourav Ganguly and others. Even the new State Cabinet Ministers were present in full strength. I spotted Mayor Shovan Chatterjee, Firhad Hakim, Madan Mitra and others. Some film personalities were also present.

If Sunday morning witnessed the gathering of industrialists, the evening went to the sports personalities. The presence of politicians were there on both the occasions in good measure.

I met the Union Minister for Tourism, Subodh Kant Sahai, after a long time at the reception (picture).

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