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Events : 2011 -2012
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Mrs Purnima Dutta, President 2011-2012 | |||||
| Dr Suchitra Guha : Monday 31st Oct 2011, Fortune Select Loudon | ||||||
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Money is one of the most difficult items to manage and also enjoy
judiciously. Not so long ago, we simply went to our fathers or husbands and sometimes even our brothers, for all our financial requirements. What’s quite daunting today is that Money management is as much the woman’s responsibility as it
has been the man’s through history. A finance manager both at home and at work needs to know how to handle money and wealth in order to be successful. Yet it has been observed that women are never given a financial education while growing up and we face emotional challenges — like worthiness and confidence — that make handling finances especially tough. |
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Dr Suchitra Guha, Head of Human Resource for Commercial Division, Tata Steel, gave a very educative yet lucid talk about “Financial Literacy for the Empowered Woman”. With a Personnel Management degree from XLRI, Jamshedpur, and after completing training in Strategic HR at London Business School, Mrs Guha joined Tata Steel as a Management Trainee. Today, 34 years later Mrs Guha has expertise in all areas of Human Resources & Industrial Relations. Dr guha was successful in making a dry and frightening subject like finance management sound very engaging through anecdotes from her own. members who attened the event went home with lots of ideas about how to improve the finance management of both personal and professional life and that thereby find confidence |
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| Past Life Regression: Dr Newton & Dr Lakshmi, Friday, 16th Sept, 2011 Rosewood Hall, Park Hotel | ||||||
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Discontent, dashed expectations are some of the factors that might imprison us in a constant depressive mood. Past Life Regression Therapy uses hypnosis to help its patients to travel through time and visit their previous lives. Often they discover stories and clues, events and unresolved issues, that perhaps have stayed on with them through their many incarnations – a heavy burden that make their present lives miserable. Dr Newton and dr lakshmi completed their MBBS from the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad. However, they chose the healing of souls – as opposed to bodies -- as their life’s mission. |
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Dr Newton and Dr Lakshmi both specialized in Past Life Regression Therapy and Holistic Therapy and began to help people people overcome their problems. This event saw very a good attendance and members thoroughly enjoyed the discourse on a very unique technique of therapy. |
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| 19 August 2011 : Dr Malavika Kohli, MD, Dermatology, in a talk titled | ||||||
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Enhance the Health and Beauty of Your Skin: Advanced Aesthetic Dermatology, Fortune Select Loudon, spoke about how to rejuvenate the skin and talked about the big and small secrets of skin care and repair and cleared some concerns about appearance. Dr Kohli is at present, a Consultant and Aesthetic Dermatologist with Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre and with Breach Candy Hospital Trust, both in Mumbai. She, with her team at her clinic, routinely consults and counsels patients and performs botox, fillers, chemical peels and other aesthetic procedures. Members listened with great attention to all her suggestions and tips. |
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| 26 July 2011 : “The Golden Cocoon of the East” | ||||||
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A talk and discussion session with Ms Sampa Das and Shri Arjun Chakraborty, was held in the Crystal Room of Taj Bengal. The Golden Cocoon of the East is the inimitable, glossy, silk cocoon of Assam -- the Muga. Muga silk has been identified as a silk of a distinct quality, reputation and characteristic. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that due to its low porosity, the Muga yarn cannot be bleached or dyed and its natural golden color is retained. |
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Sampa Das has been involved with Assamese textile and handloom for a long time and has a boutique in the city showcasing Assam’s rich textile heritage. Sampa had been working with textiles and silks for some years when she was introduced to the handlooms and weaves of the East. Mesmerised and motivated she began sourcing Assamese handloom textiles like the mekhlas chadors and sarees and also their exclusive jewellery. She spoke about Muga, the weavers of Assam and briefly about the present state of Assamese handloom industry. Arjun Chakraborty, Kolkata’s well known and much loved actor and director interacted with Sampa Das on this occasion. |
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| Does our Government Value our Priceless Heritage ? - 25 June 2011 | ||||||
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We may be fast losing the public treasures that would have made generations of residents feel proud about their city -- Kolkata. Some of our heritage buildings, such as the University Senate Hall, have been demolished and others like the Silver Mint and Prinseps' Ghat, that create the image and character of our city, have been allowed to decay; victims of short sighted neglect. It is time to take a stock of the situation. Government initiative and financial assistance will go a long way in ensuring that we enjoy and admire our heritage in all their beauty and grandeur.
At our recent event at the Victoria Memorial Hall, speakers, Dr Jawhar Sircar, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Govt of India and Professor Chittaranjan Panda, the Secretary and Curator of Victoria Memorial Hall, spoke about both the tangible and intangible aspects of our heritage. |
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Members attended in 19th Century attire and were a happy to have attended this informative, intriguing and provocative discourse. |  |
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| Dr Shashi Tharoor in Conversation with Sunanda K Datta-Ray - Wednesday, 20 April 2011 | ||||||
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Topic: Is India Looking East? Our first programme hosted by new President, Mrs Purnima Dutta, was a great success. We had a good attendance from both members and media. MP from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and ex-UN Dr Shashi Tharoor, has been a theatre buff, debator and successful actor since his school days. He is also a prolific author, columnist, journalist. His most famous work is The Great Indian Novel. His other books include Reasons of State; India: From Midnight to the Millennium; and Nehru, the Invention of India. |
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Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Editor of The Statesman (Calcutta and New Delhi) and the Editorial Consultant to Singapore's The Straits Times. He has also written for the Time Magazine and International Herald Tribune. His book Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India won the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Non-Fiction 2010. It was a wonderful discussion about our country’s foreign policy over the years and especially it relation with the South East Asian countries; a topic for which both the speakers have years of experience to draw from. The added bonus was the presence of Mrs Sunanda Tharoor at the event. |
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