Anirban's Corner of the Web

My Friends

This page is dedicated to all those friends of mine whom I may have failed to mention here!

Childhood triumvirate

I had several close friends as a child - especially with two guys of our school called Samudra Gupta and Shantanu Biswas. We self-designated ourselves as 'The three musketeers' or 'the triumvirate'! I have lost touch with both of them now. Shantanu studied with me upto the twelfth standard, after which he went on to pursue a medical career and I in engineering. Samudra was studying journalism when I last heard of him - that was about seven years ago! Shantanu and Samudra - please write to me if you chance upon this site!

At College

The four enjoyable years I spent at the Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Jadavpur University brought me in contact with many interesting people, and formed friendships which have lasted, and many which have become frayed (elctrostatic bond...hydrogen bond?).

IISc

Joining IISc made it possible to come in contact with another India, one I hadn't known before (except as tourists): different language and customs, scripts and food, but still very Indian. I came to meet geniuses and eccentrics and ETs at IISc, many good friends - Sumeet Sardarji, Ravi Swamiji, Vijay Viva, Ravi Shankar, Soujanna Sarkar, Smita, Alok PUF Mittal, Ull, Jaya Machcha, Jeppy, Kishore BGM, CSM, MN Mahesh and on and on... We still maintain contact with one another, and parties are quite often! Here is Vijay's homepage..

Purani Jeans - Ali Haider

Purani Jeans Aur Guitar
Mohalle Ki Woh Chhat Aur Mere Yaar
Woh Raaton Ko Jaagna
Subha Ghar Jaana Kood Ke Deevar
Woh Cigarette Peena Gali Mein Ja Ke
Woh Karna Daanton Ko Ghadi Ghadi Saaf
Pohonchna College Hamesha Late
Woh Kehna Sir Ka 'Get Out From The Class'

Woh Bahar Ja Ke Hamesha Kehna
Yahan Ka System Hi Hai Kharaab
Woh Jaake Canteen Main Table Baja Ke
Woh Gaane Gaana Yaaron Ke Saath

Bas Yaadein
Yaadein
Yaadein Reh Jaati Hain
Kuch Choti Choti Baatain Reh Jaati Hain
Bas Yaadein
Yaadein
Yaadein Reh Jaati Hain
Kuch Choti Choti Baatain Reh Jaati Hain
Bas Yaadain...

Woh Papa Ka DaanTnaa
Woh Kehna Mummi Ka 'Chhodiye Jee Aap
Tumhain To Bas Nazar Aata Hai
Jahan Main Beta Mera Hi Kharaab'
Woh Dil Main Sochna Kar Ke Kuch Dikha den
Woh Karna Planning Roz Nai Yaar

Ladakhpan Ka Woh Pehla Pyar
Woh Likhna Haathon Pe 'A Plus R'
Woh Khidki Se Jhaankna
Woh Likhna Letter Unhen Baar Baar
Woh Dena Tohfe Main Sone Ki Baalian
Woh Lena Doston Se Paise Udhaar

Bas Yaadein
Yaadein
Yaadein Reh Jaati Hain
Kuch Choti Choti Baatain Reh Jaati Hain
Bas Yaadein
Yaadein
Yaadein Reh Jaati Hain
Kuch Choti Choti Baatain Reh Jaati Hain
Bas Yaadein...

Aisa Yaadon Ka Mausam Chala
Bhoolta Hi Nahin Dil Mera
Kahan Meri Jeans Aur Guitar
Mohalle Ki Woh Chhat Aur Mere Yaar
Woh Raaton Ko Jaagna
Subah Ghar Jaana Kood Ke Deevar
Purani Jeans Aur Guitar
Mohalle Ki Woh Chhat Aur Mere Yaar
Woh Raaton Ko Jaagna
Subah Ghar Jaana Kood Ke Deevar

Photos

At Arindam Ray's home, Saltlake, Calcutta. From left: Satyajit, myself, Pranabesh and Saikat Lahiri. 1 March 1997.

Find me! The Holi Festival at my college. Holi was played inside the campus on the day after the holiday (23 March 1997)! Though Holi is observed with much less enthusiasm in south India, I did not miss Holi even at the IISc campus (1998).

At Garhbeta, Medinipur, Bengal. Front from left: Shobhan 'Bond' Chandra, Indranil 'Dumdum' Roy, Amit 'Bhai' Biswas. Sitting behind, from left: Arindam 'Antu' Banerjee, Atanu 'Gaam' Mondal, myself, Shubhadip Saha and Arindam Ray. We had gone on a visit to Subhadip's house in Garhbeta. 28 March 1997.

At the Late Prof. A. Mukherjee's home, Sonarpur, near Calcutta. From left: myself, Professor and Sabyasachi. Sabyasachi and I did our BE project under Prof. Mukherjee. 14 April 1997.

At the Image Processing Lab of Jadavpur University, Calcutta. On my left is Sabyasachi Nag, my project partner - our BE project was titled 'Restoration of Blurred Images'. April 1997

The Class of '99 at CEDT, IISc.(Standing I row left to right) 1. B. Jaya Prakash 2. B. Seenappa 3. Me 4. C.S. Madhusudhana 5. P. Sesha Srinivas 6. Ravi Swamy 7. Anirban Banerjee 8. C.S. Ullas 9. B. Kishore (Sitting left to right) 1. A.S.V. Ravi Shankar 2. Sumeet Singh Sethi 3. Arun Chandra Shekhar 4. Smita Nene 5. M. Jayachandran 6. Soujanna Sarkar 7. Alok Mittal 8. Rajendra Shinde. 23 January 1999

At the Blackrock pub, near Cork, Ireland. With Vikas Gupta, Mohsinuddin, Vijay and David John.

At the Orange County resort in Coorg. We went there on a company picnic on 3rd Feb 2001. Seen here are Arun, Kartik, myself, Sheshadri and Subray. Although everybody points at the contents of my glassful of beer, I wasn't really drinking.