Advertising Mind Block – Negligibly dressed female will make the sale! I am writing about a personal experience. I was a career Advisor in Arena Multimedia. The management decided to make a short Advt. film to be shown on local cables and Metro stations –to increase the awareness regarding career opportunities of the Multimedia sector , IT Industry. So a small time advertising company was hired to shoot a film – showing the Institute, the students and other available facilities. The guys came in with cameras and tri-pods and mikes…
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My Love His-story!
I too have a Love story…. I shifted to hostel (Lady Brabourne, Kolkata) in September1988. Made many friends. Our favorite topic of discussion was – of course – ‘how would our husbands be?’. Will we have a love marriage or get tied down with some bloke our parents will choose for us ! Some girls already had boy friends, some made after coming to college/hostel and we all heard real life love stories in various permutations and combinations. Frankly speaking the ‘real life’ incidents I heard were not at all…
Read MoreMy unusual Dreams
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…
Read MoreFerozpur-Ambala-1991-92
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 !…
Read MoreCollege Days – Continued
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…
Read MoreCollege Days>88 to 91
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…
Read MoreAllahabad-Gangtok>86-88
Posted to Allahabad (UP) – 1986 Next posting – Allahabad. Our school was a dilapidated building of the old British Military office !! Class XI – I took Science. Another cool city. We were given a brand new house – not lived in before – and our garden was huge – all forest ! My Parents made it into a beautiful garden – flowers in the front and vegetables at the back. The land was extremely fertile for the vegetables grew in amazingly large sizes and the flowers were just…
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