Mother Teresa’s sad demise and the blasting music from ‘SomePlace Else’ The Park made a hell lot of money during Mother Teresa’s death – since all reporters and journalists put up at The Park as it was closer to her residence / orphanage. There was this Mr. Charles Hackworth from the Christian Society – he had become very pally with me – he took my snaps and showed me the pictures of his Grandson, daughter, wife etc. He even presented me The Holy Bible. One day he came up to…
Read MoreThe Park Kolkata- Continued
The ‘Executive Office Celebration’ event : There were 2 xerox machines – one at the Business centre and the other at the Executive Department. I could use any as I was working on a very important Project “Editing the HR manual”. So one such day I reached the Executive Office and they had this huge cake – the biggest I had seen during In-house celebration – which was being cut. I had lot many photocopies to be made so I was standing there when everyone had a big piece –…
Read MoreThe Park – Kolkata
Address : 16 Park Street, Kolkata—700017. Tenure : 1year, 3months Professional Practice (PP) Trainee—3rd Year of GNIIT Curriculum. I joined the Service Industry as a Trainee from NIIT. I went for the Interview and to my surprise I was interviewed by a very pretty looking young Lady Mrs. Malaya Das. She was so young and good looking ! She was the Human Resources Manager at The Park. She had a huge cabin all to herself and she asked me very simple questions about myself. I had gone with another…
Read MoreNorth Point School (Salt Lake, Baishaki)
Tenure : 3 months Designation : Computer Teacher I upgraded my NIIT course from I year to 3 years of GNIIT Curriculum.I even got a watch for upgrading myself – in fact sometimes I think that it was for the watch that I upgraded !! Anyways I was in immense hurry to complete the course. As time was running out . I was already 25 (in 1995) – I had several things running on my mind parallel-y! First & foremost was my marriage with Somnath (Somu). I had…
Read MorePositive Electronics Ltd. – Continued
Life was dragging on when…. One day when I was standing for the bus (to go to Office) I saw Somnath – after about 2 years or so ! He leisurely asked me my Office Telephone . It was the last week of September,1994. In the meantime our maid servant (supplied by my sister residing at Tea Gardens) went raving mad ! – She used to be fed by our other maids – she stopped working and used to watch TV only. One day while my parents were watching…
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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…
Read MoreInspiration Advertising Agency
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…
Read MoreTrend India Marketing & Publication Pvt. Ltd.
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…
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…
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