I keep making jokes about Mallus and Bongs all the time. But I do have friends of both these types, in spite of this. For instance, the current director of IIM Udaipur was a good friend while we worked together at another IIM, in early the 2000s. Also, Madhu Karmakar and his charming wife at the same campus- Lucknow. TK Chatterjee, Pradeep Mazumdar and Subhashankar at IMT were great colleagues. Indrajit at IIM Indore also is a good friend, and we often met over chai or lunch and chatted. Sumit Ghosh is another colleague from IIM Indore. We shared a lot of things, among them a fascination for Kishore Kumar. We even visited his Memorial and ancestral home in Khandwa together. A memorable trip.
Phalguni Banerjee is a student I recall from IMT Nagpur, and Nikita Kumar from Kolkata. From KIAMS, Siddharth Agarwala, Shruti Bihani are honorary Bongs, living in Bongland. And my friend and Ph.D. student Naveen Das is a Bong.
Shakti Ghoshal from IIM Bangalore, and Dash, domiciled in Bongland as he became an IPS officer from West Bengal cadre.
Plenty more, I would think.
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