Some more funny names by Gaurav: -
1. Mokontali Sorkhel
2. Sri Topon Tobasko Torkorotno
3. Lionel Lyabakanto Lashkar
4. Bul Bhullaiya Bhullanbhullo
5. Chandan Rajkumar
6. Salam Salman Suleiman
7. Jignesh Jeremine Johar
8. Sachi Sabya Barti Chakra
9. Anindranath Tagore
10. Mr. Ashim Lyangto
11. Boidyonath Bolobordhok Bagga
12. Fotikchand Fuckruddin Fernandez
13. Howard Horshobordhon Hesky
14. Olokesh Alessandro Agramagarwal
15. Santosh Klanto Pareshanto
16. Sandipuddin
17. Chunilal Chaturbala
18. Lalchand Agnidev Premnath
19. Sanjib Sebastian Sorbojjo
20. Bobby Benimadhob Bhutia
21. Holodhor Henry Hussein
22. Noresh Nathu Nuno
23. Komol Kanon Kuchkiwala
24. Sonar Horin Sengupta
Hope you enjoyed it.
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Showing posts with label Kolkata Book Fair. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Naming Convention - invented by Gaurav
My friend Gaurav (Gaurav Kumar Poddar / GKP) has a unique way of naming himself in all the sms-es he sends me. I enjoy these names and he keeps on sending sms-es and addresses himself as the names given below. There are many such names he uses but these are a few of them. Keep reading them and laughing your heart out.
1. Gilbert Gaurav Gabriel
2. Gaurav Goutam Goldar
3. Jamini Khudrolingam
4. Gaurav Kumar Gabbar
5. Gyan Gaurav Gomes
6. Gogol Gaurav Ghoshal
7. Galileo Gaurav Gallili
8. Kulbhushan Gaurabanda
9. Gourango Behera
10. Tejendro Narayan Cruise
11. Ronindranath Thakur
12. Gaurav Gagan Gonsalves
13. Bartholomew Bandhopadhyay
14. Nripendro Nicholas Bajpei
15. Umacharan Romakanto
16. Duronto Charan Lal Bagchi
17. Anil Andrew Ahluwalia
18. Toretokka Takla Makan
19. Pothbhola Ek Pothik
20. Jagjeevan Edward Routh
21. Umesh Chandro Sanyal
22. Jahangir Francis Jhontu
23. Jatin Lalit Modi
24. Hershelle Nobokumar Gibbs
25. Potal Parel Panmanabhan
26. Nimai Maiti
27. Aminul Harrison Jhontu
28. Gajadhar Chacha
29. Jaggan Jangai Jhunjhunwala
30. Dhumrolochon Potobordhon
31. Gorome Ghamithabh Ghamachchan
32. Bolai Parul Khemka
33. Kuchkengshu Koibolyo Kallol Kanti Karmakar
34. Handle Kumar Harrison
35. Alaque Podamshi
36. Mohishashur Star Ananda
37. Ghemo Gondho Ghosh
38. Vaiju Vajram Vajraghath Vajropath
39. Gouriproshad Gogonbhedi Gucchait
40. Purnendu Pal er Pishtuto Mesho Halfnendu Pal
41. Bickram Ghosh er mashtuto kaka Akram Ghosh
42. Rowdy Rascala Reddy
43. Daniel Deboprotim Dengzongpa
44. Kiron Kumar Kironmala
45. Charu Sharma Bouthan
46. Tore Tokka Takla Makan
more are to added soon in later posts ...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Yeh Hain Maidan, Meri Jaan
I have some good memories of the Maidan of Kolkata. It was called Gorer Maath then which meant Field of the Fort. Gor means Fort in Bengali and Maath means Field. By fort we refer to Fort Willam which is present on the western side of the Maidan.
As a child, I used to go to the Maidan with my Guggy (my maternal grandfather) in his kochi kolapata (light green) colour Fiat (Premier Padmini) in the 1980s. We used to set off for Maidan from our house at Bowbazar at around 5pm. People who accompanied us were Dilu, Ratan, Ludu-da, Tepi and many more. They used to be my co-players at the limited overs cricket match we used to play at Maidan.
When we wanted to plant the stumps (reminds me of the famous saying by Tony Greig - "From stUmp to stUmp and from wickIt to wickIt") on the ground, mounted police officers (who were actually army men on horsebacks) used to come and used to break our stumps or threaten us to remove the stumps from digging on the ground. Actually the army men were there to look after the safety of the Maidan and thus they used to do rounds and keep a strict vigilance inside around the Maidan to keep a watch on the big Maidan.
There was a triangular field in the middle of the big Maidan where there used to be 3-4 small golf courses with many holes (not the hole of Mint with the Hole) for beginners I guess. I don’t know who used to play golf there but whenever I went there along with cricket kit, I used to take my hockey stick there and tried to hole the ball with my hockey stick and once I did that I had to pick the ball from those holes using my hand after a lot of difficulty as the holes were quite small. I feared if there might be many snakes or rodents which might bite my fingers.
I also used to visit the Maidan with my mummy and daddy from our Park Circus flat on a cab or by our car. As we approached the Maidan from S.N. Banerjee Road, the evening sun from above the Eden Gardens used to shine on our eyes thus making it difficult for us as well as the person who is driving the car to look in front.
As we approached the Maidan, we used to enter the Maidan from Red Road approach (which was both ways then), we felt like we have reached a place filled with fresh air very much comparable to heaven. The whip of fresh air on us made us breathe out lungs out to the fullest. It made us get free from all our tensions and forget all our sorrows and pains.
Thus the visits to the Maidan was so much enriching for us that we used to visit the heavenly place once a week and sometimes twice or thrice a week during vacations.
Thus I could never think of a place in Kolkata better than the Maidan to get myself rejuvinated.
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
BOOK FAIR 2007
This year's Book Fair was not looking like one. It seemed like a normal fair that was unable to draw people to it. I had the opportunity to visit Book Fair 2007 with Gaurav and stayed there from 2.00pm till 9.00pm on Sunday the 18th of Feb, 2007.
The poor infrastructure at Salt Lake Stadium made the fair look lean. Maidan, where the book fair is held every year has its own charm. No other fair grounds can ever have the same charm or copy the charm from maidan. People travel by Metro Rail to visit the book fair at maidan each year which was something people missed a lot this year.
Even the collection of books were less compared to the previous years. Leading publishers were also not seen this year.
Firstly, a fishy stinking smell was coming out from the mud and the sand that was laid before the stalls. The lanes between the stalls were narrow, that made it difficult for the crowd to pass during peak hours. Only one good thing was that there was no puddles here and there that is a common site in Maidan.
Another thing that draws praise is the paper-pickers who picked the papers lying here and ther on the ground. The collected the papers to keep the place clean. They were sponsored by a leading FM Station. (I don't remember the name) . Those paper-pickers did a great job.
The toilet facilities were good for the males, but I saw a great queue in front of the female toilet. Only the authorities knows the actual reason.
The price of food items touched the sky. Cost of any food items was charged twice their normal price. This is a common phenomenon seen in Kolkata nowadays. The food items have become really costly. It is really difficult for the middle class people to afford them. The quality was also lacking.
There were only about 900 book stalls but most of the book stalls were extended around the stadium making most of the people unaware of the stalls there. So many remained aloof of the stalls around the stadium. All the people concentrated on the stalls that were erected behind the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
There was a grass field where couples and lovers haad the good opportunity to sit together and chat their heart out. This grass field was behind the stadium and was secluded from the main fair which made the couples have a good time.
While returning there were absolutely no transport facilities by the transport department and most of the people has to return to the next more (crossing) by walking and catch a bus or a cab from there. As for our case, we had to walk till Beliaghata CIT More to catch an auto to Sealdah. Others had to walk till Phoolbagan or Ultadanga or Chingrighata to catch a bus or auto to their home. The inadequate transport facilities disappointed the enthusiastic crowd.
Next day, I saw on the newspaper that there were about 90,000 footfalls at the book fair on Sunday the 18th of Feb, 2007., which was about 1/9th compared to the normal footfall at the Maidan. Hats off to Rani Rashmoni for gifting the people of Kolkata the Maidan which is both culturally rich and filled with heritage.
The poor infrastructure at Salt Lake Stadium made the fair look lean. Maidan, where the book fair is held every year has its own charm. No other fair grounds can ever have the same charm or copy the charm from maidan. People travel by Metro Rail to visit the book fair at maidan each year which was something people missed a lot this year.
Even the collection of books were less compared to the previous years. Leading publishers were also not seen this year.
Firstly, a fishy stinking smell was coming out from the mud and the sand that was laid before the stalls. The lanes between the stalls were narrow, that made it difficult for the crowd to pass during peak hours. Only one good thing was that there was no puddles here and there that is a common site in Maidan.
Another thing that draws praise is the paper-pickers who picked the papers lying here and ther on the ground. The collected the papers to keep the place clean. They were sponsored by a leading FM Station. (I don't remember the name) . Those paper-pickers did a great job.
The toilet facilities were good for the males, but I saw a great queue in front of the female toilet. Only the authorities knows the actual reason.
The price of food items touched the sky. Cost of any food items was charged twice their normal price. This is a common phenomenon seen in Kolkata nowadays. The food items have become really costly. It is really difficult for the middle class people to afford them. The quality was also lacking.
There were only about 900 book stalls but most of the book stalls were extended around the stadium making most of the people unaware of the stalls there. So many remained aloof of the stalls around the stadium. All the people concentrated on the stalls that were erected behind the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
There was a grass field where couples and lovers haad the good opportunity to sit together and chat their heart out. This grass field was behind the stadium and was secluded from the main fair which made the couples have a good time.
While returning there were absolutely no transport facilities by the transport department and most of the people has to return to the next more (crossing) by walking and catch a bus or a cab from there. As for our case, we had to walk till Beliaghata CIT More to catch an auto to Sealdah. Others had to walk till Phoolbagan or Ultadanga or Chingrighata to catch a bus or auto to their home. The inadequate transport facilities disappointed the enthusiastic crowd.
Next day, I saw on the newspaper that there were about 90,000 footfalls at the book fair on Sunday the 18th of Feb, 2007., which was about 1/9th compared to the normal footfall at the Maidan. Hats off to Rani Rashmoni for gifting the people of Kolkata the Maidan which is both culturally rich and filled with heritage.
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