Its always shear pleasure for me to look at albums in my PC and relive lovely memories with wonderful people in my journey. So here’s presenting a few such moments (Many of you might find yourself here too 🙂 ). There are few things in life, I feel, like turning sticky pages of an old hard copy album (without the distraction to Like and Comment). So preferred to keep this “old school”. Hope you like “the showcase of the immortals”…
P.S. The order of the pics is randomly generated each time you refresh the page. So feel free to hit F5 if you don’t like the sequence 😉
When Thursdays became the New Friday… Drinks near Oxford Street with some of my amazing office colleagues in the UK
At Besant Nagar Beach, Chennai with the cutest friend one can ever have Chiru…
With my cousin sister Tua at the century-old home Durga Pujo @ Potuatola Lane, Kolkata
LIVE on Air… It was fun to be on Nomoshkar Kolkata with RJ Vineet and RJ Pooja
During the 13 unlucky miles all-night Halloween Hike in London (November 2014)
Friday Night Freakout… Many social competitive lines disappear at a drinks and dance party… like this office one in London
Blessed to be celebrating Birthday 2015 @ London with my family
Pleasure to meet the Royal Family 😉 in London
At the Dancing Elephant Pub, Delhi with Sugandh, Puneet, Shubhi and her Ashiq
Wedding snap with my extended family
With the one and only BBM Sir along with Saptarshi and Dahlia during IEM Reunion
When I was just a little babe…
With Priyesh, Shyam and Vatsu (reminiscent of my CCRAZY Chennai Gang) during PM’s Pan India tour
The Legendary Jhups of Kolkata… We used to have this amazing tea-break during our Technopolis Kolkata days…
Adventure Hiking in Slovakia… One of the more daring acts I have done
Catch up with old IEM shipmates at Sagar’s wedding reception
Fun Place to work in… Bay decoration competition in Satyam Chennai
My wonderful cousins during my Birthday Celebrations at OMG Kolkata
Family Photograph @ The legendary House No. 149 in BTM Layout Bangalore
Classic Snap with Sushmita atop Mt. Titlis, Switzerland
Good to meet Anand Sir, Geoffrey Sir and Alka Ji in London… Its always good to meet people from India outside India
Superstars at High Tea… or should I say, Coffee at Indiranagar Bangalore
All the 3 founding members of CQ Foundation in one frame… We look a bit different now
Like all Asterix Adventures, my weekend Bangalore trips from Chennai ended with a feast
Dancing the Night Away @ IeMPACT 2006
Great food, Awesome company… Celebrating Rini’s Birthday with some lovely people including Ashish, Zoe, Lubos, Dominica and Lucia
During a photo-shoot with Sutirtha at the prohibited rail track areas near Kolaghat
With my Kolkata Office team (Anup, Nazeem, Niladri, Anup) on the white sands of Mandarmani beach
It was truly special to have friends from different walks of life (Aritra, Subhakar, Poulomi, Sudipto) come over to my place in Lake Town to wish me on my birthday
Enjoying the perfect Fall experience with my little niece at Windermere, Lake District
Gasping for breath as me and Aritra wrestled the massive waves at Puri Sea Beach
Puppy Love… Love these little pups in the backyard of my Lake Town house @ Kolkata
A very special team I was associated with in Kolkata…
Piyal’s Angels Part 3…4… or… maybe more
Atop the one and only Eiffel Tower with Sush, Bebo and Sontu Dada… Amazing spectacle of the City of Lights
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster; The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free; You’ll find a God in every golden cloister; And if you’re lucky then then the girls a she… I can feel an angel sliding next to me 😉
At the famous Panihaati Mela in Sodepur with Sush, Titli, Taboo and our friends
Having Choco-Nut-Sundae-Without-Nuts with Tanu, Kakoli, Shubhi & her Ashiq @ Corner House, Bangalore
Cousins in deep discussion in the London Underground – What do you think the weather will be tomorrow?
This was the most favorite hangout for us during engineering college days… Mashi’s Canteen
My first Chennai wedding… I mean Prem’s wedding… Featured here are many of my Satyam colleagues including my first manager Ritesh
Sitting on the misty roadways @ Kodaikanal with Aditya, Pallavi and Poulomi
Always a pleasure to meet school friends… Calcutta Boys School (CBS)… A for Apple, B for Ball, C for CBS… Best of all!
Classic childhood pic of Sunny Didi, Mimi & myself… We were forced to pose in this one I reckon!
With Derek and Michael @ London Wellbeing Festival
Sharing a joke (probably the t-shirt 😉 ) with Tanu and Tatha in Bangalore
Hanging out with the smartest of the smart… The amazing BD Team I used to work with in Chennai…
Smiling with Sushmita (that’s what her name means btw) during a photo shoot outside Kolkata
Late Night Crash Course @ Piccadilly Institute with Rini, Shibani, Romil and Amit
The Devil and his favourite Demons @ Halloween Hike London 2014 (clicked around 4AM on the steets)
Dinner at IMT Ghaziabad Mess with a bunch of highly interesting batch-mates…
Thanks for the memories, Dear Gabbie (Late Sayak Sarkar)… I wish I can be as good a man as you were, then maybe I would get to see you again
During my Wedding with Sushmita (as it is popularly known among some folks in the circuit)
Halftime Heat at Arsenal versus Crystal Palace Football Match with Ayaz and Katarina
The Good, The Great and The Awesome (in no particular order) before our Fashion show in an Office Annual Event
Receiving the QEA Frontier Award at Mesmerize Ceremony 2013 in Kolkata
With Poulomi and Rajni on a beach in Pattaya during a very memorable Thailand Trip
Celebrities at Maddox Square during Ashtami 2013
Under arrest on a Saturday Night at Piccadilly Circus London… Lets not get into the details of this one
Up in the Air… With Aditya, Priyesh and Puneet @Kodai Kanal during an amazing trekk
“Standing in the Hall of Fame, And the world’s gonna know your name…”: Honoured to be nominated as Test Manager of the Year for the prestigious European Software Testing Awards TESTA 2015
Holi with Sush and my sister Mimi… at Lake Town, Calcutta
And that’s how all business trips should end… Drinks on the train on our way back from Leeds to London (#3VeryFavouritePeopleIHaveWorkedWith)
About to cut my birthday cake with my wonderful toddler friends
Everyone has a first snowfall experience… This was mine on Feb 01 2015 @ London
At one of our favorite hangouts in Chennai Besant Nagar Beach – Tasty Jones…
With my family at our Lake Town flat for New Year 2015
With Mama Cita Had amazing times with Latika in Chennai… especially the escapades after office
Last day at Satyam… at the Tidel Park Chennai office
On the raft over the Dunajak river between Poland and Slovakia
Posing with 2 amazing divas – Devleena and Kinkini in our IEM 4th Floor lab… You might notice my floral prints here, one of my regular range of apparel I used to wear
Our engagement pic… in Behala Kolkata
At Konarak Temple (Puri) with Ma and Baba… Quite a classic
Lush Life: Glam Sham with Geet and Prashant in London
Splash of Colours in the Sahara deserts in front of the mightly and mytical Egyptian Pyramids
Together since toddlers My childhood friends @ Lake Town during my Poitey (Sacred Thread Ceremony)
BigB and his Lil Sis Tanu (#BestCardEver)
With Chiru and Ashish during an amazing evening out after an Office Event at my very favorite Besant Nagar Beachside, Chennai
Best man at Sunny Didi’s wedding
Celebrating Benu Mama and Pinky Mami’s Anniversary at the Ritz
Welcome to Brighton Pier… Notice my colorful bandana here… One of the many I love to wear
Drinking near The Thames with Aureilie and Bijit @ The Founders Arms Pub near Blackfriars, London
With my wonderful cousins and grandparents at our Bagbazar, Kolkata when we were just kids
On top of the world… Atop the breathtaking Snowdonia Peaks in North Wales
Mad Tea Party in Camden Wonderland with Rini, Shibani, Romil, Amit, Mad Hatter and the March Hare
Classic Group pic at our Kolkata Office Picnic
One of the most serene views I have ever witnessed – The Welsh countryside (clicked in Wales during our Easter Weekend Drive with Palas and Antara)
After a fascinating Ghost Walk in the mean streets of Edinburgh with the Late Mr. Adam Lyal (deceased since the early 1800s)
With some key members of my Kolkata office team – We have Rahul. Amrita, Tapamiti, Samrat, Pushkar and Riju here
During a late night (around 3 AM) encounter (as Harsha prefers to call it) at Newport Wales
The Last Bow of The Fame Jodi…
IEM Reunion during Christmas time at China Town
Cheering for my team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in IPL Cricket League at home (Eden Gardens) and away matches
Creepy White Sheep for Halloween 2015
We are leaving together, but still its farewell… The Final Countdown with my IMT mates
Come and Play… With Sushmita in Manchester
The last class of IMT Ghaziabad 2006-2008 Marketing Batch
We used to have amazing times in 4th Floor Lab, IEM
Indian friends (and one India enthisast from Hungary) meetup at All Bar One London
Roadies head-to-head during the memorable Shivanasamudram Bike Trip from Bangalore
Tasting the yummy white wine “Gewürztraminer” for the first time and we totally fell in love with it at the Mannheim and Bad Durkheimer Wine Festival, Germany
Great to celebrate Birthday in Manchester… especially with my lovely little niece Pats
Yoga in the beautiful IMT Ghaziabad lawns with Samrath and Siddharth
Christmas Eve in Calcutta invariably means visiting St. Pauls Cathedral for me… This was Dec 2012
Wonderful times in London with my cousin sister, Rini
One versus All Smashing some volleyball during a picnic @ Epping Forest, London
Anu’s Thanksgiving Party in Chennai with Pushp, Harsh and Latika
Bumped into the smiling voice of India… Shaan, at a wedding party
IEM 2006 batch reunion We all look so different, don’t we
Looks like teenage romance… That’s what it is outside Alipur Zoo Kolkata
HE-Man (whoever he is) and The Masters of the Universe…. With my CCRAZY Chennai gang in Kodaikanal
The original London Wanderers (Saayak, Shibani and Rohit) at Palms of Goa restaurant, London
Getting comfy in the shade for a lunch pit stop during our 2015 hike in Slovakia
Sometimes a makeshift Birthday cake with Candles on Bread makes it as special as ever… especially if spent with family!
One of our legendary sessions at House No. 149 in BTM, Bangalore during one of my frequent trips
Fishing with Bijit and Richa at Birbury Fish Farm in Cotswold
With my in-laws in Darjeeling… Grateful to have such good people in my life
Anchoring the Medley with Shreyartha and Dahlia @ IeMPACT 2006
With the stunning Katie at the high-end Mary Martin Fashion Show as part of London Fashion Week 2015
Business Analyst team in Kolkata – With Nilotpal and Poulomi here in CCD Technopolis Kolkata
Punjabi Punch – Privileged to walk the ramp at Fashion Show, Cognizant Kolkata with the fashion queen Debleena (DJ)
Birthday Party at OMG Kolkata thanks to Sush… folks from all walks of life joined in. Thank you!
Piyal’s Angels Part 3…4… or… maybe more
The Home of Cricket – Amazing experience to be at Lords to witness India vs. England Test Match…
Chairing a conference outside Café Coffee Day (CCD) Kormangala, Bangalore
The 4th Year Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Dream Stream in IEM Calcutta
Warmly welcomed to 1st Seaward Road (like always) by Kakoli and Chiru, during my pan-India tour
As I always tell Saptaswa & Arijita, whatever you guys do, big brother is always watching over you
Bad boys at their best behaviour… With Ganesh at our Satyam Office in Tidel Park, Chennai (#MyFirstJob)
Will always remember some of coolest people I had the privilege to work with in London… Andrea, Jo, Yogesh, Dave, Richard, Jeff and Michael (some others like Giles missing in this pic). Thank you all for making it all work
And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils… @ Oxford UK
Classic pic with my cousins – Sunny Didi, Bhai, Mimi and Bitan Dada
Enjoying sweets at KC Das Bangalore… With Tanu and Subhankar
Wedding snap with my Family
Amazing trip with office folks… Amazing snap… at Mandarmani Sea Beach
With the amazing folks we met during our Nike Cruise in Egypt… Special mention to be made of Zeinab, Fatma and Sarah who still remain close with us
Posing outside Pashupathi Temple, Nepal with my F-I-L
My wonderful cousins during my Birthday Celebrations at OMG Kolkata
Selfie with the one and only Randy Orton on a London edition of Monday Night Raw 2015: “You can take a swing at my ego, you can make a run for my crown… Even if your stand makes me nervous, you ain’t gonna take us down!”
Atop a vintage Land Rover in the Slovakian Fields with my UK hiking friends
Biking (or maybe we should say posing) in Pondicherry at 2 AM in the night – With Kakoli, Sugandh and Puneet
Birthday Lunch in Kolkata with Anirban, Ivy, Aritra, Poulomi and Abhirup
Silenced by the massive structure…. 😉
Sizes and appearances change, don’t they That’s me during school days
Manager By Accident… Receiving MBA degree from Narayana Murthy at IMT Ghaziabad 2006
With Anurag and Lana during a hiking day out @ Kent
At Afraa with Poulomi, Pushkar and Tapamiti Sneaking out for a drink during an office party
I think that was Saptarshi’s treat in Peiping, Park Street (Calcutta)
Fun and Food at Technopolis Office, Kolkata
Hand in hand Sudipto, Kalyan, myself, Poulomi and Minakshi on a boat during a Kolkata Office picnic
With Ma during one of our summer trips to Digha
With Amit and Roop at the beautiful Seven Sister Cliffs in South England
Playing with Ice atop Mt. Titlis Switzerland… Quite a dream come true for me
Written in the stars, a million miles away… This was a boyhood dream come true… Watching WWE RAW Live in O2 London
Piyal’s Angels… This pic was clicked at MGM Beach Resort on ECR Chennai with Sugandh and Kakoli
Holy shit! Lets not put a caption in this one With Shayan and Sudipta on the banks of a holy river 😉
Someone told me “In IT, you either make money or make friends”. Reckon Poulomi & I proved him wrong
Enjoying the Paris Nightlife
At the Street Food Festival outside my One Kingdom Street Paddington Office with Kim
At Aritra’s place with Binoy Kaku, Kakima and Anindita… one of my favourite places to be in Saltlake Kolkata
At Magnolia Park Street Kolkata with two very intelligent people I know… Sushmita & Kabilan
Sharing a waffle with the legendary Manneken Piss at Brussels, Belgium
This is my life, not what it was before… At the All-Night New Year Party on 1st Seaward Road
With Geet, Mattias and Raphael at Woburn Safari Park UK
Beral (Joydeep) and I used to go for a whole-night walk bike ride during Durga Pujo every year…
Mad Tea Party at Camden Market with Rini, Shibani, Romil, Amit, The Mad Hatter and March Hare
Enjoying Sangria at the very beautiful Camden Lock in London
Celebrating Teachers Day 2013 with the great RG Sir
Cricket at Office Picnic… A friend of mine (Sagar) commented that the fielders seemed pretty chilled out and didn’t have much confidence in my batting
Delivering a “high voltage” corporate presentation at Ascot UK… #ThankYouIMT for 1000s of rehearsals to perfect the real deal
With Bebo, Titli, Mimi and Sush at the memorable all night Spinster Party (not sure how I got a pass) at our Lake Town home@Kolkata
With the legendary Undertaker at the London Comicon 2015 at The Excel Exhibition Centre
Anchoring a very special Womens’ Day Celebration for my Kolkata Project Team at GTP Bantala
Queuing up for the customary Christmas Eve at St. Paul’s Cathedral Kolkata with Mama, Mami, Tua and Sushmita
P.S. I have tried to include people in the above photo gallery from various walks of my life. However there are some special people whose photographs I could not source (either because of non-availability in a digital format or the same lying somewhere to be found). If any of you have any interesting photographs which you feel I can feature here, please feel free to contact me using the coordinates provided in this site (or any other preferred method of yours to get in touch with me). I hold all these memories in a very special place in my heart and would be indebted if you could share some more of them. Thank you.
By the way, how did you like the random time sequence of the slideshow above? I found the timelessness quite intriguing as I saw my whole life flashing in front of my eyes above. The great Albert Einstein had once told us that time is an illusion. Maybe we all exist in this moment RIGHT HERE ^, RIGHT NOW… 😉
Special Thanks to the Featured Superstars: Abhirup Datta, Abhishek Banerjee, Abhishek Law, Abhishek Sarkar (Piku), Aditya Sachidanda, Adrika Bhattacharya, Amitayu Roy, Amit Gupta, Amjad Ali, Dr. Anand Khanna, Anindya Kar, Anirban Das, Anirban Mukherjee, Anirban Roy, Anup Kumar Jana, Anushka Chakraborty (Tabu), Andrea Watkins, Arijita Ghosh, Arindam Bhahmachari, Aritra Roy, Aritra Sett, Aritri Chatterjee, Arpita Khandelwal, Ashish Bansal, Ashish Sareen, Ashmita De, Arpan Chakraborty (Rony), Aurelie Silvestre, Ayaz Quereshi, Bijit Sikdar, Prof. Biswadip Basu Mallik, Biswaroop Mishra (Shiv), Bitan Chakraborty, Catherine Baker (Cath), Chandrika Mukherjee, Chirashree Bhattacharya (Chiru), Chirashree Chatterjee, Debaprasad Mukherjee, Debleena Jana / Nanda (DJ), Debraj Ghosh, Deepanwita Banerjee, Devleena Ghosh, Dahlia Ghosh, Dheeman Ghosh, Dipan Chatterjee, Dipanwita Neogi, Dipti Chakraborty, Doel Sengupta, Fatma Adel, Geetika Chugh (Geet), Giles Smith, Gourab Kr. Bayen, Harsha Dhandawada, Indranil Mukherjee, Jayanta Mukherjee, Jim Woodley, Joydeep Neogi (Beral), Kabilan Arumugam, Kakoli Dash, Kalyan Sovan Banerjee, Kasia, Katarina, Kate, Kerri Whellan, Kim Mellebeek, Kingshuk Mukherji, Kinkini Nath, Latika Vaid, Madhurima Chatterjee, Manish Khandelwal, Michael Wong, Minakshi Bhowmik, Mun Mun Mukherjee, Nandini Banerjee, Nilotpal Sengupta, Palas Roychowdhury, Pallab Datta, Pallavi Mulay, Paramita Chakraborty / Datta (Sunny Didi), Paromita Dutta, Partha Koley, Paul Barnett, Pinky Mukherjee, Piya Nandi / Mukherjee, (RJ) Pooja Maitra, Poornima Chatterjee, Poulomi Das, Prashant Koravi, Preyesh Nair, Dr. Pranava Prakash, Puneet Nandwani, Purushottam Kishen, Pushkar Bendre, Dr. Rajiv Ganguly, Rahul Nair, Randal Keith Orton, Riddhi Bhattacharya, Ridhima Sethi, Rini Mukherjee, Riju Ray, Romil Kuanr, Rohit Ware, Roni Saha, Roopa / Sampa Mukherjee, Saayak Das, Sagar Neel Dubey, Samik Chatterjee (Musta), Santanu Mitra, Sarah Adel, Satyaki Guha (Sata), Sayak Sarkar (Gabbie), Sayantani Manna, Saptarshi Debroy, Saptaswa Mukherjee, Sampa Chakraborty, Sauvik Hudati (Hudu), Sayan Basu Rai Chowdhury, Shaan, Shankar Mukherjee, Shatarupa Som, Shauryadipta Sarkar, Shayan Ahmed Khan, Shayani Pal Banerjee (Bebo), Shibani Mohanty, Shobana Rajamani, Shreyartha Mukherjee, Shubhi Bansal / Sharma, Shyam Sundar Sharma, Siddhartha Ghosh, Snehangshu Chakraborty, Shehashish Dutta, Shubhi Sharma / Bansal, Snehashish Ghosh, Sohanjyoti Ghosh, Somsubhro Samanta, Sonam Sarita, Soumik Das, Soumyadeep Dutta, Srijita Singh, Subhajit Pal, Subhankar Kar Chowdhury, Subramanian N, Sudeshna Banerjee (Titli), Sudipta Biswas, Sugandh Chawla / Sehra, Suman Mookherjee, Sushmita Chakraborty, Swagat Mahapatra, Svetlana Osipova (Lana), Swarnendu Sen (Sonu), Tania Ghosh (Tanu), Taniya Chaudhuri, Tanmoy Ghosh, Tapamiti Bhattacharya, Tarun Chakraborty, Tathagata Bose, Tim Jalland, Tom Mcdonnough, Tony, Trisha Mukherjee (Mimi), Vatsayan Vineet (Vatsu), (RJ) Vineet, Zeinab Adel
and many more…
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