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Pass this on to as many people. You don't know how many lives you might save.
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Msg from Indranil Aich
Dear Radhyeshyamji,
We intend to hire some exnavy personnel. Can you kindly provide me the email id and phone number of Admiral Nirmal Verma.
Regards,
Indranil Aich
Msg from Ranjan Guha
Dear All,
This is to inform you the following :
North Point’s NOSTALGIA 2009 :
Like in earlier years, North Point is organizing their annual event NOSTALGIA 2009 on Sunday, 22nd November 2009. Programme will consist of QUIZZING – DINNER – SOCIALIZING. Derails are as follows :
Event TimeDateVenue
Quiz CompetitionRegistration2.30 pm to 3.00 pm n22nd November 2009St. Xavier’s Auditorium
Preliminary Round3.00 to 4.30 pm
Final Round2.00 pm onwards
Dinner & Social 7.30 pm22nd November 2009Saturday Club
· Dinner coupons @ Rs. 300/= per person will be available at the venue
· Drinks Coupons will be sold at the venue
· Ex-Goethalites are requested to inform the undersigned immediately if they desire to participate in the QUIZ Competition. Our aim is to participate. This is a FUN Quiz and hence we need not have a High IQ or GK level to participate
· Ex-Goethalites are advised to attend the dinner in the evening (preferably with their spouses) so that Goethals can be well represented and we can make our presence felt.
Annual Membership Fees of Goethals Alumni (Kolkata) :
It was discussed and decided in the Governing Body Meeting held on 29-08-09 that :
· The Registration Fee of The Goethals Alumni (Kolkata) will remain at Rs. 1,000/= (Payable once)
· Membership Fees will be Rs. 500/= per year w.e.f 2st April 2010.
In this regard, the following Resolution has been passed
“RESOLVED that while the one-time REGISTRATION FEE would remain at Rs. 1,000/= (Rupees One Thousand only), the ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP FEE would be charged @ Rs. 500/= per year per member w.e.f 1st April 2010.”
This means that
Those Registering before 1st April 2010Registration ChargesRs. 1,000.00
Annual Membership for 2009 - 2010Rs. 0.00
TOTALRs. 1,000.00
Those Registering after 1st April 2010Registration ChargesRs. 1,000.00
Annual Membership for 2010 - 2011Rs. 500.00
TOTALRs. 1,500.00
Therefore. Those who have not already Registered themselves, please do so at the earliest by drawing a Cheque for Rs. 1,000/+ (Rupees One Thousand only) in favor of Goethals Alumni (Kolkata)
Forms may be downloaded from www.goethalsalumni.com
Trip to Sikkim :
In consultation with the Ex-Goethalites of Sikkim, we have planned a fun-filled trip to Sikkim. Tentative details are as follows :
Proposed Trip Gangtok and other places in Sikkim
Tentative Date of Departure 26th February 2010
Mode of Travel Darjeeling Mail uptio NJP
Open to Only Registered Members of Goethals Alumni (Kolkata) and their families.. Those Registering themselves with the Alumni on or before 8th January 2010 will be eligible
Tour Fees Rs. 500/= per family
In this connection, please note that :
1. The Tour Fees of Rs. 500/= per family is to cover arrangement and other incidental expenses and does not include any other expenses such as Train Tickets, Road Conveyance Charges, Fooding Charges, Lodging charges etc.
2. Other details will be informed shortly once the detailed programme has been chalked out
3. Meanwhile to help us to draw-up plans, please all those interested, please mail / inform the undersigned at the earliest possible stating the number of adults and the number of children likely to accompany you as members of your family.
Picnic :
A picnic for the Members and their family is being planned in the last week of January (tentatively 23rd January). More details will be informed later. Meanwhile, if anyone has any suitable picnic spot in mind or can help in any other way in this regard, you are requested to contact the undersigned as soon as possible.
Donation :
Since some members have expressed a keen desire to make a DONATION to the Kolkata Chapter of The Goethals Alumni to help it to kick-start its functioning, it has been decided to request all Ex-Goethalites of Kolkata and elsewhere who are interested to make a DONATION of what-ever-amount to draw a Cheque favoring Goethals Alumni (Kolkata) and contact the undersigned / our Treasurer (Rudra RoyChowdhury).
We are happy to inform you that some members have already come forward with their Donation. We are extremely grateful to them.
Darjeeling Hill Schools Get-Together
Darjeeling District hill Schools is planning a get together at Rangers Club on Sunday 10th Jan 2010 from 10.30am to 7.00pm which will involve soccer, basketball, volleyball, tug-of-war, beer-drinking, pool, caroms etc
Please await further details in this regard.
Goethals Alumni Web Site :
The Goethals Alumni Web Site has been spinning on the World Wide Web since past few weeks. Although the site is still in its infancy needing lot more tweaks and fine-tuning all are requested to visit the site www.goethalsalumni.com and mail us your Feedback / Comments / Suggestions etc. which will go a long way in improving this Web Site
Thanks
Ranjan Guha Majumder
Msg from Desmond
He seems to have visited the following places.
However, he could send the photograph of Glenary's only.
Glenarys does look dilapidated
1) Planter's Restaurant ( called Planter's Chimney)
2) Keventer's
3) Planter's Club ( now called The Darjeeling Club )
4) Glenary's
Hi guys,
One company Neecia has started a service for travelers safety in
India. here we can sms our taxi number etc to 08010NEECIA.
they've posted the details at save.neecia.com.
Msg from Ajoy Banerjee 1963
Dear Mr. Sharma,
I am an ex-Goethalite from the batch 1963. Got your email from Dipak Roy and Roger Storey. I am in communication with them both. I currently live in Seattle with my son and wife. I came to the U.S. in 1971, after completing B.Sc. Engineering.
I am writing to you for three reasons: first to make your acquaintance, and second to thank you for all the GMS centenary pictures that you had posted on the Internet. Enjoyed seeing a lot of old faces, including Matthew Lobo. I think he taught me in 2nd and 4th stds. Great teacher.
I was wondering if you have emails for the following people: Arjun Biswas, S.N. Bose, Samir Sarkar, Arun Shroff, Manas Chowdhury and Mohan Shivdasani, all my classmates. I have the attached email for Mohan (mo.the.shiv@gmail.com), but it is bouncing. May be he has a new email address now.
Write to me. I would like to know more about you. With best regards,
Ajoy
Ajoy Banerjeeajoybanerjee@gmail.com
Hari Om Ajoy,
I like your name.
My elder son is called Ajay.
Mr Lobo taught us in Class VIII.
Maths which was always a terror for us became so easy after he taught us.
You were two years my senior, I passed in 1965 and then did my Mechanical Engg from BIT, Mesra and have been in India since then.
I have added you to my mailing list, so, you will get my weekly mails which I send to all our boys.
I notiice you have seen our blog.http://goethals1907-2007.blogspot.com/
We normally post more than one articles from our boys.
If you find anything worth posting, you may send it to me.
The mail IDs you asked are given below, including some which you did not ask. I have added them since they are from your batch.
I do not have Arjun Biswas, S N Bose and Samir Sarkar's IDs.
Arun Shroff: arunkumarshroff@hotmai.com
Manas Chowdhury craig.chowdhury@gmail.com
Mohan Shivdasani: mohan@shivdasanis.net
Vinod Kapur : ashokindustriacorp@yahoo.co.in
U S Chanda : us.chandra@yahoo.com
Soumen Kumar Neogi : newpl.2000@yahoo.com
I am not sure whether you will get a reply from Mohan since he has become a recluse.
Neogi's mails regularly bounce.
The rest are all working ID's
I am regularly in contact with Arun and Manas. Manas is specially very active in our Alumni Association.
Bye fro now.
Do keep writing and giving us news.
Radheshyam
Jay Shri Krishna
My dear Sharma-sahib,
Namashkar. Many thanks for sending me a rich cachet of contacts from the past. Please keep writing to me, now that we know each other.
I am now semi-retired except that I help my son Shandip (Sean) with our financial services business. I am now in Seattle where I live with my wife Manju and Sean. During the course of my work years I have lived in Boston, London, Geneva, Houston and San Francisco. Came here in 1971, after graduating from B.Sc. Engineering from Punjab Engr’g College in Chandigarh. My parents lived in Delhi, although I was born in Krishnagar, in Nadia District. I did my M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. I have worked for Intel and Microsoft and founded three software companies on my own. I don’t have a house in Cal, although may be you can recommend some short stay NRI rental flats in South Kolkata.
If you can call Arjun Biswas at his Savoy Camera Store and ask him to write to me, I shall be very grateful. He is a good friend with whom, alas, I have lost touch. I will write to all the people whose addresses you have so kindly given me. I was so sorry to hear of Mohan’s wife’s untimely demise. I wrote to Lobo, let’s see if he replies.
When you write to me next, you must tell me all about your family, including my namesake – Ajay.
Kind regards and respects,
Here is a recent picture.
It may jog your memory.
Ajoy
Hari Om Ajay,
I too am semi retired, go to office at WPIL Ltd, a large pump manufacturing co, thrice a week, (M,W,F).
Having retired from WPIL two years ago they were kind enough to retain me there as a consultant.
I look after mainly imports and raw material procurement from outside Kolkata.
On other days, I work from home, on-line trading of shares.
Today being Tuesday, I am free.
Further, our blog keeps me busy. Rather, I am busier now than when I worked full time at WPIL.
My elder son Ajay is with Cognizant Technology Solutions, based in Kolkata and lives with us.
He has a beautiful and hard-working wife(home-maker) in Shalini and a sweet daughter, Yati who is now 13 months old.
You may see all our photographs in my last "Msgs from friends 44" posted on last Saturday on our blog.
Ajay will be going for about 6 months to Switzerland on company's work.
He had earlier been thrice to USA, once to Germany, once to Belgium and only last month to Switzerland.
The younger son, Jay is in BPO industry.
He was with Dell India for about three years. Now, he has gone to UK in another BPO company, I forget the name.
His beautiful wife Sheetal is from Mumbai.
They have no children.
That's my family in a nutshell.
We used to live in Bangladesh upto 1964 (it was E.Pakistan) at that time.
I was in Goethals from 1955 to 1965, going to E Pakistan only during the winter vacation.
I have worked in Kesoram Rayon, Nayasarai, Hoogly district,Express Cables, Patna, Electrical Mfg Co, Kolkata, Sankey Wheels, Durgapur, and WPIL LTD, from where I retired in 2006. WPIL was earlier known as Worthington Pump India Ltd, which had collaborations with Johnston Pump, USA and Worthington Pumps, USA.
Thats my resume.
Arun Shroff and I are friends from school.
He also joined BIT, Mesra and passed out two years before me.
I live in Bangur Avenue, which is in North Kolkata.
Arun, Manas and others could recommend better than me regarding NRI rental home, since they live in South Kolkata.
Arjun Biswas is presently out of Kolkata.
I'll ask him to call you up when he returns.
He doesnt keep an email ID.
His camera shop keeps him busy.
I have told him a number of times to take an ID but to no avail.
Lets see if you can convince him
Radheshyam
Jay Shri Krishna
My dear Radhey,
You have lived a very successful life, congratulations. Your sons have grown up to lead very successful lives too; that’s is the mark of real success for parents. Ajay and Jay they are doing very well, by God’s Grace. I know of Cognizant. Great company and good top management. Also, I am pleased to note that your boys are travelling the world. They are young. They should do it now.
Enjoy your granddaughter. I hope you get to spend time with her. So you and Arun Shroff went to BIT Ranchi. Is he Mechanical too? My Mama-ji’s son went to BITS Pilani. They went back to Cal and unfortunately died too soon. He was my age. BIT’s are good schools.
I am most intrigued that you are from E.Bengal. My wife’s family once hailed from Maymansingh. I believe the Kar family too are from E. Bengal. I am amazed a Brahmin Sharma family from E. Bengal!!! Do you speak Bengali fluently?
Where is Bangur Ave, is it off Central Avenue. I don’t know Cal that well. Does Arun live near you and do you guys see each other often? I will really enjoy receiving your newsletter. I will write to Arun and Manas soon. Was Utpal Biswas in your class? If he has email, you can send it to me. Also, have you seen Samir Sarkar lately? What does he do?
Incidentally, I found several short term NRI rentals in Cal on the Internet.
Write to me when you have time. It was so nice to know about your family. We should get together and travel in India, as a group every year. Won’t that be great?
Regards,
Ajoy
Hari Om Ajay,
The first lot of marwari's left Rajasthan and came to Bengal for business.They were the business community.
We being Brahmins accompanied them to do their Pujas.
My great great grandfather went to Bangladesh in the early part of the 20th century.
We lived in a place called Chuadanga in Kushtia district and were there up to 1964 when my father migrated.
My Tau (Jetha) came over in 1971, after the Bangladesh war.
Inspite of living in Bengal and E.Bengal we still remain vegetarians and pure marwaris.
We still keep our family ties.
I have one more thing common with you.
My wife too is called Manju.
She is from Kolkata and a housewife.
Bangur Avenue is actually in Dum Dum Municipality. It is on the way to the airport from Kolkata city.
It is in North Kolkata.
Arun and all the others live in South Kolkata.
Utpal was two years my Junior, '67 batch
It seems the Biswas's are allergic to e mail.
He too does not have an ID.
However, his telephone no is 03322283677 but I could not get him.
The last time I met Samir was during the centenary celebrations.
He used to work in Belvue Nursing Home but I think he has retired from there.
His younger brother Nihar (we used to call him NK) is in USA.
If you go through our blog, especially the message from old boys, you will plenty of information.
If there is anything more you would like to know, do ask.
I understand you are missing India quite a lot.
Do keep writing
Cheers,
Radheshyam
Jay Shri Krishna
Dear Radhey,
I did not know that you were ethnically a Marwari. I have been to Jaipur, Jodhpur and Ajmer. Rajasthani’s speak their own brand of Hindi. I don’t understand it. Do you speak Rajasthani also? Thank you for the history lesson. When I think of Marwaris, I wrongly assume that they came to Calcutta only. But it stands to reason that they went to E. Bengal as well. E. Bengal, for one thing, grows more Jute than W. Bengal. In those days all Jute Mills were owned by Marwaris. When my Father- sahib started out in business he had dealings with Haridas Mundra, who helped him. Prior to that he worked for a British company. Soon he moved to Delhi. Our family was in the chemical business.
One comment – I am a Bengali Brahmin. I eat meat. It started with Ramkrishna Paramhans and the tradition was carried out by Swami Vivekananda. The Shakta sect of Hindus do eat meat and Si Ramkrishna Dev was a Ma Kali bhakt (Jay Mata Ki). We were Vashnavis and as such my Grandparents did not eat meat. But my Father-sahib, a devout Kali Bhakht, started the meat eating tradition in our house, meaning goat meat only. Chicken was not allowed in our house. The Kashmiri Brahmins and their forebears, the Mohyal Brahmins are all meat eating as well. Today, Santan Dharmis and Vashnavi’s are mostly vegetarians. The Mohyal s pre-dates Gandhara, when Hindus ruled Afghanistan.
I was born in Krishnagar Nadia District. I believe Kushtia is on the other side of the border from us. In fact there is a town in Nadia called Kushtia. We used to go near the Jessore border, with my cousins on motorcycles, to buy cheap mangoes.
How sweet, your wife’s name is Manju, and your son is Ajoy and both of us went to Goethals. If you dig deeper, you might find we are even related!!!
So Bangur Ave. is in Dum Dum. I have an Aunty, now widowed, who lives in Nager Bazar area. When I was young, my Father used to take me to the airport on weekend mornings to see the planes and have breakfast. Fond memories. Also, when we came to Calcutta, one of the first places we would go to Dakhineshwar, Ma Kali Darshan and Puja. After Puja, we would come out and eat puris and channa dal from the stalls outside the Mandir.
If N.K. is in the US, I will ask Dipak about his contact info. Do I miss Calcutta/India? Yes. But mostly, at my age I would like to re-connect with the old friends and the past. It brings me full circle. We all started at Goethals, led different lives, all of us were blessed with success and now the second generation carries on boldly. What a nice legacy. About your blogs, I went to the site. Hit the Goethals navigation site on the right, and saw only a few old postings. May be I am not going to the right place. Help. When does your next email (letter) come out?
Cheers from Seattle. Winter is setting in. Keep writing.
Ajoy Banerjee
Hi Guys,
This is happening too fast for me. We are moving out of our condo and moving into a house on 12/2. Needed to rent our condo out, because the renters are moving from Minnesota. All this happened in a hurry. So I will be off the air till Week 1 of December till Internet gets installed I the new place.
I will write too you from our new place. Take care, you guys.
Best regards,
Ajoy Banerjee
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