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This year we had decided to shift our focus a little from organizing technical seminars to organizing different types of cultural events which can truly integrate all alumni members and their family/friends. We have focused more on networking of alumni and therefore arranged several events of similar kind such as "Bijoya Sammelani-2005"; "Annual Picnic~2006 , and above all a "Mega Cultural Event: Musical Nite~2006"
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Mega Cultural Nite 2006 : As a Golden Jubilee bash of Mumbai Branch of our Association and also as a part of the Centenary year celebration of our parent institute i.e. NCE Bengal, we at Mumbai branch of the association have decided the gala celebration of this year with various alumni networking events for the entire year 2005-06. As a part fulfilling that objective, we decided to organize a musical night on the very foundation day of NCE Bengal to express the gratitude towards our nationalist leaders who founded NCE Bengal on the March 11th 1906. The essence of our this year's Cultural Program is basically to encourage and inspire "Human Bondage" through art and culture which will enable alumni networking and achieving our mission.
About artists:
Roopkumar is the son of the late Pandit Chaturbhuj Rathod, the classical luminary who in his time also groomed Kalyanji - Anandji and singer Manhar.Roop Kumar choose to continue his father's legacy and learnt the tabla and began to play with Pankaj Udhas and Anup Jalota unlike elder brother Shravan Rathod (of the Nadeem-Shravan duo) who took up music composing or younger brother Vinod Rathod who took to playback singing. He played the tabla for Shyam Benegal's 'Discovery of India', for ghazals, Qawaalis, Bhajans sung by Lata Mangeshkar, performed on stage.
Roop is happliy married to Sonali. She hails from a business family and is the daughter Leena Jhaveri, a classical dancer. A dedicated student of Indian classical music, her basic grounding came from Purshottam Upadhyay and Hridaynath Mangeshkar, under whom she still trains. In 1978, she lost her singing voice, and the condition remained for 6 years, defying medical treatment. Wanting to remain in music, even if not vocal, she began to learn the sitar. And her voice slowly 'came back' and she honed it with her riyaaz. Ustad Niyaz Ahmed Khan also groomed her.
Sonali came out with an album Aaghaaz (she won the Best ghazal singer award the same year) in 1986. Her other albums include Bhajan Kalash, Bhajan Yatra and Khazana (all live), Mogra Nu Phool in Gujrati, Shabnam and Dilkash.
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Our annual picnic held on 29th'January 2006 at BOSCOWADI sea breach( 3 KM before Gorai Beach) at Borivali ( West ). The spot was a beautiful place with lush greenery and free space- where more than 80 members were present. Plethora of wonderful varieties of sports/cultural activities had been arranged in the picnic and particularly the young members enjoyed a lot. We also received more numbers of new life membership subscriptions in this event. The event coordinator and our young alumnus Mr. Sourangshu Mallik, immaculately managed the entire event.
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It was organized at 'Flavours Of Kolkata' at Vashi , New Bombay . The program will particularly remembered by all for a variety of artistic performance which was well managed by Dr. Debashish Bagchi. Our team of alumni members led by Mr. S P Ray, Dr. Debashish Bagchi and Sourangshu Mallik has nicely managed the entire event. The programme ended up with delicious dinner served lavishly to all and the menu was truly fantastic. As many as 125 members attended in this programme.
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Venue : Jewel of Chembur Hotel Date : 29th May,2004. We performed our AGM nicely with moderate percentage of alumni members presence. The occasion was graced with in-house performance of songs and poetic citation.The event ended with delicious dinner served to all present.
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Our association has organized one day cultural evening with eminent maestro of national stature Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia on flute & Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty on vocal at Shanmukhanada auditorium ,Sion on 24th April 2004 under the theme of "Inspiring Intellectual Refinement &Human Decency". We used this event for fund raising through ad/sponsors and donar pass for entry.The entire proceed collected will be donated to our alumni trust to use for charitable purpose to promote education and diffusion of knowlwdge amongst economically challanged and meritorious students in Maharashtra and Jadavpur University.
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Venue : Gorai Beach Resort , borivali ( E ). Date : 1st Feb.2004. Like every year this year 2004 has definitely started with lot of enthusiasm of grand PICNIC . We had a great fun and frolic on that day like any other annual picnics.
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Date: 20th December , 2003 Venue: Gateway of India. After getting a huge support and overwhelming response from our Alumni for such catamaran cruise what we had organised two years back ; we decided to redo such events this year in the Month of December. It was a great success for the entire team of JU Alumni Association in Mumbai Branch. Everybody enjoyed the evening with the breeze of Arabian Sea and nice cruise. The dinner served at the right time and many new members were seen as fresh induction in our association.Lot of new members enrolled into Life Membership status and it was a great significance for our netwworking of all alumnus in Mumbai.
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In compliance with our tradition,cultural event was organised on 25th december,2002 at shivaswamy auditorium.The objective of such events is to facilitate integration and promote brotherhood amongst alumni members. The main event of the evening by reknowned Mumbai?s ?Gunjan orchestra? was preceded by Rabindrasongeet from our family of Alumni member Mrs kajal Dam and Mr Santanu Dam.Director of the orchestra group Mr Prabhakar Desai provided scintillating musical performance with his other team members.The group provided platform for new and upcoming artists of Mumbai to perform to the best of their abilities.Gunjan presented popular hindi film songs by young artists viz.Mr sagar desai,Yatin Karnik,Usha Iyer who were all very impressive with their performance.Popular bengali songs of Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar was presented by reknowned artist by Mrs Bisakha banerjee and Mr subhendra Chatterjee.Mrs Banerjee is attached to various musical groups and film industry in Mumbai.Audience also enjoyed the mimicry by Mr Ravi Raj who enthralled the crowd with laughter. The event ended with the closing song by all the group members of Gunjan team.The entire event lasted for 3 hours.
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Date: April 20,2002 Venue: Harbour Hall of HOTEL CENTAUR, Juhu It was basically a management paper contest for young managers and engineers in Mumbai and the students of the Management Institutions in and around Mumbai. The response for this event was encouraging and oral presentation by the shortlisted candidates were held. In the begining Prof. B.Nag Memorial Lecture on "Best Practices in Indian Industry" were delivered by K.Venkataraman (L&T) and Sanjiv Verma (TISCO). Judges for the contest of papers were Prof. A.K.Dey, A.K.Basu, M.K.Shedha and S.Ramani Iyer. Welcome address was given by Rajat Dasgupta and Tribute to Prof.B.Nag was delivered by Prof.Ajit K. Mallic of IIT Powai. Prises to the successful contestants were also distributed. The programme ended with Cocktail Dinner.
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Date: February 10,2002 ; Venue: Glass House Bunglow, Madh Island ; More than 125 participants enjoyed the games, sumptuous food, plentiful fun and frolics in the sprawling meadows of the Glass House with the back-drop of Arabian Sea.
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The event held on: December 25, 2001 ; at Fine Arts Auditirium, Chembur ; The "Ghazals Night" by Ghazal King JAGJIT SINGH was a wonderful experience where Jagjit Singh brought out the emotional side of Ghazals in delivering tranquillity, passion, serenity and "sweet pain in love". In the begining of the programme, Surya Bhattacharya rendered folk and modern songs with a melodious voice both in Bengali and Hindi. The gathering of more than thousand audiences enjoyed every moment of the evening.
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Date: yet to be decided Venue: yet to be decided This is an upcoming Event which will be held along side with the Foundation Day celebration
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Date: yet to be decided Venue: yet to be decided This is an upcoming Event which will be held along side with the Foundation Day celebration.
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