Kolkata Meetups

somnath

“Hi Somnath, this is Rene”.
“Ohhhh… Hi Rene, how are you? I am Somnath and she is Sree”
- at the reception of Fairlawn hotel, Calcutta on 6th May,2005 time 5.55 pm. Yes friends this is my pleasure to share another IM meetup report from Kolkata.

“Renedu", me and "Sree" spent a nice evening in the streets of Kolkata on that day. Rene arrived on 5th from Varanasi. I do not want to describe the condition of poor Rene (Doon express was running late by 6 hrs.) on arrival, let it be reserved for him only. Rene called me up and we decided to meet at his hotel. Rene was supposed to leave on 7th so he had a time constraint in Calcutta, so it was my suggestion that we’ll not spend the meetup evening on the hotel or any fixed place but we 3 will go to a few places together, so that rene can enjoy Calcutta and we all can enjoy the meetup. The proposal was accepted gladly. After a short interaction (you can say, formal introduction) regarding seen and unseen places, Rene shared his wonderful photographs of Calcutta and Varanasi; we went to the Academy of Fine Arts (realizing Rene’s area of interest). By the way, let me tell you on the way Rene has experienced the most noisy metro rail of the world (isn’t it Rene?). it was a rainy evening in Calcutta, we 3 went there spent some time at Nandan and Rabindra Sadan area, ignoring the light rain we walked for a while in the streets and enjoyed the amazing experience of Rene’s acting in Bollywood movie . Hey Rene, do not forget to post your picture in the movie (Rising).

As soon as Rene posts the meetup pictures in IndiaMike, a Teacher-Painter, a Librarian and a Software Professional can be seen together.
1. http://www.indiamike.com/india/member.php?userid=2250 (Florence, Italy)
2. http://www.indiamike.com/india/member.php?userid=6231 (Kolkata, india)
3. http://www.indiamike.com/india/member.php?userid=4434 (Kolkata, India)

Let me request Sree and Rene to post their feelings too.

After the missup ( Kolkata Meetups ), I am glad to announce it was a great meetup once again in Kolkata.


Thanks,
Somnath

Sree

Really it was a great experience. Me Sonmath and Rene spend a beautiful evening in "Kollolini Tilottama". I was a bit nervous before visiting there but afterwards I couldnot percept the passing of time. Rene is a great admirer of Ash. He even didnot missed the Bengali movie "Chokher bali". Beside this, he is quite familiar with Indian cinema. He even suggested his mom to view Baghban.

As Somnath told, we went to Academy of Fine Arts, Nandan & Rabindra Sadan. There we saw a small Book Fair.

It was drizzling, and that made the evening more enjoyable to us.The weather (earlier which was really hot & humid) became so cool and pleasant that Rene appriciated the weather of Kolkata (actually it is not correct in this part of the year) a lot.
Rene showed us some pictures taken by him and also shared some of his travel experience.
I am eagerly waiting to hear from Rene and also looking forward to experience another meetup.

somnath

Thanks for the addition . Glad to see your post.

sadhuji

i would have loved to be present. unfortunately, on the 5/6th of may, i was back in nasik. hope we can plan a real good meet sometimes in the future.

torryquine

Oh I'm so jealous! Next time we're in Kolkata, we'll do the same things with you Somnath...oh the Academy of Fine Arts...just another thing we didn't have the time to see.

Glad you all had fun, are there any pictures yet?

Kind regards
TQ

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babuchand

ya and call me in then
somnath, my mob no is 09830213098
can u give me yours????

a calcuttan

somnath

“unfortunately, on the 5/6th of may, i was back in nasik”
– Bad luck Sadhuji. As per the discussion, you were supposed to leave on 1st / 2nd May so it was expected that you will not be there in Calcutta during this meetup. Anyway, always there is a “next time” .

“Oh I'm so jealous!”
- That’s what I wanted to do TQ . Your envy will push you for the next visit. Ha Ha ha….. There are so many things to enjoy specially the world famous ‘Adda’ (the identity of Calcutta) . We are waiting for your next visit.
- Ya pictures are there but it is with Rene. Currently he is in Delhi and busy with some serious job (after a holiday mood) so he told me that he will be posting it very soon.

“ya and call me in then somnath,”- Sure Babu. Adda is even better if the team is bigger. Thank you so much for your no. Please find the PM contains my mobl no.


Thank you all.
- Somnath

laterally inclined

hell count me in too! i've always been looking for something loike this.... whats up this summer? pls keep in touch!!

babuchand

if it summer then there are nice evenings when kolkata dress to be a queen....
and ofcourse there are cool bars in esplanade and park street with coolest beers.....com'on lets arrrange it. there is another indamike guy i know...
sapta roy, we will call him too.

may be some sunday eveneing

babu

somnath

Hi,
I am glad to add the Kolkata meetup picture here. I am thankful to Rene that he has taken all the pain to download the pix and mailed to me so that we can share the said pic. Thank you Rene, I know you are busy like anything but if you are able to snatch some time from your schedule, please enjoy it.

Friends, as we told you that it was raining so unable to snap outside so Rene found it would be better to take a few snap inside the taxi itself. Ha ha ha… the camera was held on Rene’s (the photographer) hand pointed to us and see the result !!!! TQ, i remember this one too: (http://www.indiamike.com/india/showt...page=2&p p=15)

Thank you.

Cheers,
Somnath

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Kanbe

nice photos
thanks for sharingg

i love all these updates after IM meet-ups

torryquine

It's always nice to see pics of meetups, thanks for taking the time to get these organised. Can't wait to do another Kolkata meetup Somnath!

TQ

sadhuji

thanks for the nice pctures of somnath, sree and rene. let us hope the next meet up attracts others as well.

Sree

1. Somnath
2. sadhuji
3. torryquine
4. babuchand
5. laterally inclined
and of course
6. Me

(Not sure whether Rene will be able to come again )

We have already six confirm members who are willing to join the MEET UP. There are potencial members also. So.... Sadhuji & Somnath please arrange another one (But now it is too hot). May be in winter, the season of fairs and festivals.

Thanks to Somnath amd Rene for pics.

sadhuji

i think we could consider the next book fair - end january 2006.