Address : 5 Commissariate Road, Hastings, Kolkata. Assemblers of Salora Television. Tenure : 11 months It was a very friendly atmosphere. There were 2 other girls as well. All my male colleagues were very elder brotherly towards me – all of them were married actually – so they were all very pally and nice. My designation was : Public Relations Officer . My duty was to take complaints from the customer/ dealers and allocate the address (Job Sheet) to the Senior Mechanic (Guha…
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Tenure : 25 days After leaving Trend India I was at home for about 7-8 months doing absolutely nothing ! I was doing a correspondence course in Public Administration from Simla University though. The course materials used to come (I had started that in Ambala ) and I used to dutifully fill the answer sheets and answer whatever the Simla Univ. guys had to ask me about what I understood of the bull-crap they sent me via mail ! All this happened till Somnath came in my life – after…
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Tenure: 22 days. It was an office situated in a remote corner of office para – dirty, unkempt and untidy office – a man was sitting inside talking on phone -I had gone with my father and maternal uncle. The office environment was very sick and maybe the expression on my face showed it clearly. That man who was interviewing inside the glass chamber came out and made a call where he made us understand that this office is only temporary and that the real office will be in…
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My unusual Dreams I will cover some of my dreams that I saw in my life and what it eventually meant ! Repetitive dreams There were some dreams which were repetitive – not exactly the same but similar like the objects were the same but the scenario – back drop was different. Two such repetitive dreams are as follows : My group of friends and a dilapidated old Building. I saw myself driving an open jeep with the group of friends from the class I was actually in at the…
Read MoreLife in Ambala and arrival of Sheroo
I stumbled upon Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda in the Kharga Library I had more or less finished reading novels of my interest – I hated cheap Love stories and silhouette romance – so never took them home. I was keen on finding a book on the ‘unusual phenomenon’, the other side of the iron curtain, about dreams and its significance, Angels, the paranormal , the supernatural etc. I found the Volume One of Complete Works. I just flipped through it and saw some topics.I read them. And I stood…
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Coming to Ferozpur Well after my Part II Exams, I went to Ferozpur where my Father had been posted. I met my old school mate – Shailja Tandon. We went around and had a gala time together !! I learnt how to drive ! I met yet another gang mate of mine – Bujji (Munni’s brother – Lt. Rao’s children who were with us in Hasimara – he was probably 4 years old then !) Bujji could drive very well – he offered to teach me how to Drive !…
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Caught red handed by Botany Professor I was not very keen to attend the Botany and Chemistry classes for I had come to know that you just need to somehow pass – get 35 marks – for it is not added in the Final Exam marks. That was it ! I had learnt all these new tricks only after coming to Kolkata – people here always refer to the previous year Question paper and prepare accordingly – they had done so in their Board Exams as well – I had…
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Saraswati Puja and the efforts we took to look good. During Sarawati Puja, we used to wear sarees and along with the seniors and a Matron, we used to go around to visit other Saraswati Puja Pandals. NMC was obviously one of the hostels who arranged and we visited them . One year Bantu di told us that the NMC guys had made a cheap comment regarding us Brabourne girls – they had said that ‘ Brabourne girls are just to have fun with – never to marry’ – so…
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Bunking college for Movies Oh! I was one Movie Freak !! Light House, New Empire and Globe – were my second home ! Wednesdays and Fridays were confirmed – I used to bunk college and watch movies – Hollywood movies – sometimes in Metro etc. we used to go for Hindi Movie as well – Maine Pyaar Kiya, Dil, Aashiqui, QSQT,Sajan…some of the movies of our collegehood !! One day there was this movie –‘ Adventures of Baby Sitting’ ….the song – ‘He asked me to be his bride and…
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Kolkata : Pre College Joining Days – Being from CBSE, my results came out in June but West Bengal Board Exam result were to be announced only after August and admission in September . After 20 days of college – a month’s holiday for Durga Pujas. My Parents went back to Gangtok and I had to put up in my distant relative’s house at 6B Bright Street. Mr. K.L Lahiri was my Grandfather’s (Mother’s Father) maternal brother. He was the ex IG Forest. Retired. People addressed him as Bhalo Dadu…
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