Aparna Sen Live

 It was the launch of a book about her. I only know her through the film 36 Chowringhee Lane, that she directed- it was produced by Shashi Kapoor (how that happened was a good story). I was very impressed at the time. The three major actors led by Jennifer Kapoor were excellent. I did find Chowringhee Lane recently, but not no. 36. Anyway, it was an engaging conversation with the author Suman Ghosh and another actor Anjan Dutt who tended to speak out of turn,, and a lot more than necessary. She is 80, but looked around 60.

Anyway, my respect for Tolly Club went up- after a debate earlier, and now this.. organised by their Library, it seems.

Oh Kolkata

 After quite some time, I had a chance to visit Kolkata. The Institute of Engineering and Management there hosted me for a keynote address in their International Case Conference. 

We had visited Kolkata several times, and also went on a river cruise on a police launch thanks to a friend there. Coincidentally, the same friend, now retired from his police job, was launching his book titled Police in Blunderland, too. So I hopped on to the bandwagon, and conversed with him at the launch. At Kaffee Am Salzsee, a nice little cafe in Salt Lake- courtesy an alum of IIMB who owns it. His parents were our kind hosts.

Sky en route Kolkata.

My student escorts at the IEM conference -above- Paushali and her classmate.

Rvolving restaurant at Biswa Bangla Sarani, New Town.

With Naveen Das, above. With Sudeshna and Shakti below. Book Launch.

With Dash, the author.

 

Upcoming Book Launch in Kolkata

 A friend, classmate and P-in-C from IIMB, who is also IPS and a Ph.D. (aise dost hain hamare), wrote a book. I am conversing with him about it. Since a pic is worth a thousand words, here are the pics worth two thousand .. 

If you like books, him, or me, and live in Kolkata, do make it on Sept 1st.

Deja Vu- IIMI NASMEI Conference 2019

Two years ago, we did a conference in collaboration with NASMEI. In 2004, I had collaborated with them at IIMK for the first time. Now, in 2019, we did the second edition from IIM Indore. Great experience, and met quite a few people from places as far away as Tirunelveli (M. Sundarnar University), PES University Bangalore (my former employer too), Narsee Monjee, Mumbai, and many more places across India.

There were invited speakers from several foreign universities, many U.S. based. We had Dr. Jag Sheth join on video in the Inaugural panel. A few distinguished speakers from XLRI, ISB and other IIMs spoke in special panels. We also had two book launches- mine was one, and Dr. Varsha Jain's was the other. All in all, a good time was had by the participants, and the people involved in conducting it.

 Above- a workshop was conducted on Meaningful Research by Satish Nargundkar from Georgia State University. Yes, he is my brother too.

Below, the launch of my book (Marketing Research, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2019) with Sanjay Jain, Manju Ahuja, Phil Zerrillo, Giri Kumar Tayi and Bharat Bhasker. It was nice meeting people who said they used the book while teaching, or had read it before.

and the book itself..

lastly, me, doing my thing.. bringing it to a close.