North Kolkata Calling !!

At Nahoum's Home alone with a peg of whisky Sausages

There was a time when my friend Sohan Lal Sharma brought a young man to my house. It was already around 10pm and I was about to retire.In fact we used to have a lot of music addas at our house and various artists & friends used to come. Particularly that day -I was tired and wanted to go to bed as soon as possible. But my friend insisted -" You please listen to this young man."  I unwillingly resigned. Within few minutes I was stunned ! It was the first time that I heard Ravindra Jain. His compositions brought tears in my eyes-in fact I was very very impressed.  Later -we met several times ! In fact I became an ardent fan of his ! Rest of the story- I mean his work and fame in Music Industry-is known to all !!

                                     The Puja begun by Ramdulal Deb (De) in the year 1770                                      still continues!

Every year Saibal Tapasi  Mausam & Surela Deb organizes Music  Addas at their residence during Durga Puja.The idea is to upkeep  the tradition (begun by their forefathers) of Indian Classical Music & Dance ! Surela Deb is at present Surela Ghosh.         Adrija Pal Gargi Roy Chowdhury

This Adda was held during Durga Puja'14

Dipomala

This home made Audio Cassette was produced in the year 1995. The lyric was first written in Bengali &  put to music.Then it was  translated into English-the music remaining the same.The first line  in Bengali was written by Tapasi Deb & the rest by Saibal Kr.Deb. Hence :-                                   Artist : Surela Deb                                  Tabla : Mausam Deb                                 Lyric : Tapasi & Saibal Deb                                 Music : Saibal Kr. Deb                               ...

All pujas begun by Ramdulal Deb around 1770-still continues ! Traditional fireworks( better known as Chatu Babuder Baji) stopped due to sound pollution rule.Hence cloth distribution continues. Cloth distribution Durga Puja-Austomi Day 234 Years old Kali Puja

Wonder what Chetan Bhagat is aiming at ? In a recent interview by NDTV Walk The Talk -the author seems confused ! To be in politics or not-that was the question. A confused Chetan threw the question to some IIT students-who gathered around the show-to know their views. Wonder why he threw the question -well-towards them ?  Probably he wants to know their sentiment ! Which ,of course, proved  negative  !

Soptumi Sosthi Sosthi Durga Puja adda

Hedua Beadon Street

Ugh ! There are so many options now a days ! Be it in music-be it in food  -be it in serials-be it in visiting various countries -be it in buying cars and properties etc etc. Of course if you have the required resources-that is ! Apart from this- the Internet is creating havoc !! Life sometime seems to be so...so..easy.  Yet how happy is the world ? Or we ? Wonder !!

Durga Puja still continues at the house of Ramdulal De (Deb )-the pioneer of Indo-American Trade Relation !! The Puja begun by the pioneer himself !!

What so ever the reason might be -I have still to settle down with a situation which I henceforth thought was just under my    control.With the passing of time and age, I felt this more inside me than I could have ever thought of !    What am I supposed to do ?  Faced with an unknown phenomena ?   

At Chatu Babu's Bazar :- 9th April-7.30pm. Ghot Sthapon & Puja 10th April-8am. Puja of Mahadev.7.30pm.Puja & Jhul Jhanp. 11th April-8am.Puja of Mahadev.7.30pm. Puja &Kanta Jhanp. 12th April-8am. Puja of Mahadev. 7.30pm.Puja & Bonti Jhanp. And Sanyasis take fruits & goes to Kalighat. 13th April-8.30am. Puja of Nila.Evening-Implanting Charak Tree & Lilaboti's marriage. 14th April 8pm-Charak Puja & 4.30pm Sanyasis swings around Charak  tree. An old Charak Mela at Beadon Street from morning till mid night. 15th April 8pm-Basi Charak, Puja & and Sanyasis Anspanna Bhojan at Chatu Babu's Thakurbari.

Cloth distribution, Bhandara, Cultural program at  their Varanasi tempel.

My apology for not going through this newly released book 'The Lowland ' by Jhumpa Lahiri. Her growing up with at  least two names of Calcutta (Vivekananda Road & Tollygunge)  might arose some amount of curiosity among old Calcuttans. Especially when the author claims to be an outsider-though having an existing family tree here.It will be interesting to find out how she educates herself -trying to trace back the mindset of a 'certain period.' 

                                          On 19th January 2014 -Org. by S. Deb

It was very painful to see her mentioned as Suchitra in some TV channels-while reporting her health condition ! She is not ONLY Suchitra .......she is SUCHITRA SEN !!!!!! Wonder how long will it take us to respect a personality who has  given us so much !! So much !!!! So much !!!! So much !!!