Please join your batchmates on 17.04.2011 with your loved ones to celebrate POILA BOISAKH & usher in  Bengali New Year 1418, with an evening of Songs and Dances and a Geeti Alekhya on Rabindranath at South Point Junior School Auditorium  from 6.00 pm to  9.00 pm.
 
Programme:

1. Solo recital [Songs] - Ms Anusua Choudhury, Mr Shamik Sinha.

2. Geeti Alekhya - "Gitanjali"

• Dancers - Dr Romi Dasgupta, Ms Sritama Gupta, Mrs. Tanusree Sengupta, Mrs. Sanjukta Majumder and Ms Rajanya Roy.

• Singers - Dr Angsu Sen, Ms Moyna Sen, Dr Biplab Roychoudhury, Dr. Arunava Chakraborty, Mr. Dipayan Banerjee, Mr. Arnab Roychoudhury, Ms Shilpi Das, Ms Sanghita Sanyal and Ms. Sutapa Chatterjee.

• Narration & Recitation - Mr Arnab RoyChowdhury & Dr Sramana Mukhopadhyay.

• Script Writer - Dr. Debapriya Sengupta.
  

  Note: Shitalda-r canteen will be open between 6pm - 9pm.

Notification No. DIT(E) / 2279
8E/ 244/ 96-97

Date of issue: 11. 02. 2011

Valid from: A. Yrs. 2010 - 11

The Annual Adda of South Pointers, is knocking at your doors. RENDEZVOUS 2011, the Annual Reunion Dinner and Dance of South Point Ex-Students, organised by ASPEXS in association with The Telegraph, is scheduled on Saturday, 15th January 2011 at Swabhumi, EM Bypass, Kolkata from 6 P.M. onwards.

Please do come and join us with your friends and family and relive the past days of your life with your schoolmates all over again. See you all there.

The main attraction of this year's programme is live performance by ace entertainer MIR (of Zee Bangla Mirakkel) and his band 'BANDAGE'. The other usual attractions are all there including jam session with DJ, snacks and drinks corner, sumptuous buffet spread, etc.

Come with your friends and family and relive the past days of your life with your school mates all over again.

Invitation Passes are available NOW, at the following outlets:

* South Point Junior School Campus (Mandeville Gardens)
* G55 -- Dakshinapan, Dhakuria
* Cakes (Ekdalia Gariahat Crossing)
* Starmark (South City Mall, City Centre & Mani Square)
* Charlie Outlaw (Metropolis Mall, Highland Park)

Home delivery of invitee passes available for minimum of ten (10) passes booked by one person at a time. To avail this, please call Mr. Dean Surtee at 9330966424.

Special Cards for Life and Associate Members’ available only from Mr. Dean Surtee at South Point School, 16 Mandeville Gardens, Kolkata 700 019 between 11 am and 7 pm against production of ASPEXS ID Card. Passes will not be available at the venue.

For further details and clarifications you may contact:
- Shilpi 98300 70690
- Rakesh 98318 87852
- Dean 93309 66424
- Email at annual.adda@aspexs.com
- Write over here on this thread
http://www.aspexs.com/aspexs/ForumMessageList.aspx?tid=2633

If anyone is willing to support ASPEXS with sponsorship, please download the sponsorship letter / form / rate chart from the following links:

Rate Chart: http://www.aspexs.com/aspexs/pdf/RU2011/rates.pdf
Sponsorship profile: http://www.aspexs.com/aspexs/pdf/RU2011/aspexs.pdf

All Ex-pointers who wish to extend their support to the organising team either actively as volunteers or with their suggestions, may join us at Junior School every Sunday at 11am.

Kamalini Mukherji (SPHS '96 Madhyamik) will be having her solo Rabindrasangeet concert titled “Nutan Juger Bhore” on 23rd November 2010 at 7pm at G D Birla Sabhaghar. The music director of the concert is Shubhayu Sen Majumdar and the entire programme will be anchored by Parambrata Chatterjee & Chaiti Ghoshal.

Nutan Juger Bhore - At the dawn of an era is a programme that aims at presenting Rabindrasangeet to the musically much exposed and evolved audience of today.It seeks to be a bridge between the traditional Rabindrasangeet and an innovative contemporary musical approach in an effort to extend its appeal across time and generation. Kamalini wishes to bring together the conventional & the new, the mature & the fresh and the old and the young with the help of one of the most modern and contemporary of geniuses – Rabindranath Tagore.

Now a familiar face & name in the music circuit, Kamalini features weekly in the programme “Chirantani” on Tara Muzik. She has sung for the feature film “Nishijapon” (2006) by noted filmmaker Sandip Ray and also for a documentary on Ramkinkar Baij by documentary filmmaker Nitish Mukhopadhyay & has sung for Aakashvani & Doordarshan.

Her first solo recital “Prabhu Amar, Priyo Amar” was held at ICCR, Kolkata on 1-Sep-09. Her next solo recital “Hey Shokha” was held in New Delhi at the Siri Fort Auditorium II on 7-Nov-09. She has performed along with Usha Uthup in “Rabindrasangeet Unplugged” at ICCR on 8-Aug-08.

Her individual Rabindrasangeet album “Eshechho Prem” was released by HMV Saregama in May-2010 & topped FM music channel “Radio Mirchi” chart as the most popular album. She has, also, sung in the recent HMV Saregama release “Tagore for Tomorrow”. Her first individual disc "Geeto Sudhar Tore" was released by “P & M Records” in 2006.

Tickets priced at Rs.40/- are available at GD Birla Sabhaghar, Music World (Park Street), Cafe The (ICCR), Melody (Gariahat & Rashbehari), G55 (Dakshinapan).

 
BEST IMAGE:  BEHALA NUTAN DAL (Sculptor: Arun Kumar Pal)
BEST PANDAL:  SURUCHI SANGHA (Designer: Amar Sarkar; Decorator: New Modern Decorators)         
BEST AMBIENCE:  BABUBAGAN SARBOJANIN (Organized by: Babubagan Club)     
 
The following three Pujas will receive appreciation certificates:
BEST IMAGE: Shib Mandir Sarbojanin Durgotsab Samiti;
BEST PANDAL: Kidderpore Pally Saradiya; and
BEST AMBIENCE: Netaji Sporting Club-Lake Town.

The Samman winners have been selected by 24 student-judges from about 100 short-listed pujas in and around Kolkata. The selectors, 18 students from South Point High School and six from M P Birla Foundation Higher Secondary School, visited the pandals on 13 and 14 October 2010, in four groups for evaluation.
 
Late Srimati Priyamvada Birla, Chairperson of the M P Birla Group, introduced in 1999, the M P Birla Foundation Puja Utkarsh Samman, a unique award scheme involving students, to highlight the cultural and social relevance of Durga Puja in Bengal. She felt the Samman would make our young citizens aware of the finer aspects of the Puja and inculcate in them the values of our culture and heritage. This will, at the same time, give an opportunity to honour the sculptors, designers and Puja organizers for their creativity and ingenuity. The Samman is a tribute to the creative genius of Bengal.
 
The main award for the Best Image and Pandal will be given to the sculptor and designer concerned, respectively, with recognition awards to the two Puja committees concerned and the pandal decorator/executing agency concerned as well. The award for the Best Ambience will go to the Puja committee concerned only. The Samman, comprising cash, gold chain and locket, angavastra, Certificate of Excellence and the M P Birla Award Trophy, will be handed over to the respective recipients at a grand ceremony on 4 July 2011, the birth anniversary of late Shri M P Birla.

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of South Point Ex-Students' Association shall be held on Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 11am; at the registered office of the society at 16, Mandeville Gardens Kolkata - 700019 to transact the following business:

1. To pass the audited statement of accounts for the year ended 31.03.2010.

2. To adopt the annual Report of the Managing Committee

3. To appoint auditors for the year ending 31.03.2011.

Your presence is solicited (Only LIFE MEMBERS).

Postal mail has been despatched to all life members to the address provided to ASPEXS. Please bring the letter or ASPEXS life membership id card, on the day of the meeting. Proxies are not allowed.

South Point Ex-students’ Association (ASPEXS) under the aegis of its Medical Wing, in association with the  Diabetic Association of India (West Bengal) and Novartis, is organising a diabetes-detection-cum-awareness program on Sunday, July 18, 2010 at South Point School premises at 16, Mandeville Gardens, Kolkata 700 019, for the benefit of members of staff of the school (both present and retired), ex-students, as well as guardians of students studying in the school.

This is a unique event in which ASPEXS is bringing together a professional organization of doctors and patients for the cause of diabetes which has emerged as a critical public health problem. The purpose of this programmes is to sensitize teachers and guardians towards the colossal problem that diabetes is going to cause to children, the future of our Nation, if proper corrective steps are not taken. Parents and teachers can play a major role in inculcating healthy lifestyle habits in children. At the same time the program aims to help those members of staff still in service or retired and already afflicted with the malady or having a near and dear one afflicted with it, to face the challenge of diabetes and tackle it more effectively

The program will entail free blood glucose and glycosolated haemoglobin testing followed by a open discussion where eminent endocrinologists,and cardiologists will be available to guide the participants. It is a matter of great pride for the school that all these eminent physicians of the city have one thing in common - they are all ex-pointers and have not forgotten their school despite professional and other commitments.
 
Programme details:
Date and time : Sunday, July 18, 2010, from 8 am onwards
Venue : 16 Mandeville Gardens, Kolkata 19
 
Highlights:
1. Free capillary blood glucose (blood sugar) and glycosolated haemoglobin testing : 8am-10.30am (limited number on first-come-first-served basis)
2. Informal chit-chat  with pointer doctors over tea : 10-10.30am
3. Open House Discussion: Winning the battle against diabetes : are we adequately geared up? 10.30 am-12.00 noon
 
Moderator: Prof. Subhankar Chowdhury, Prof. and Head, Department of Endocrinology, IPGME&R & SSKM Hospital.
 
Panelists:
Dr. Nilanjan Sengupta, Associate Professor, Department of Endocrinology, NRS Medical College;
Dr. Sujoy Mazumder, Consultant Endocrinologist, Peerless Hospital,
Dr. Debmalya Sanyal, Consultant Endocrinologist, RTIICS;
Dr. Debabrata Roy, Consultant Cardiologist, RTIICS.
 
Chief Guest: Mr. Goutam Mohan Chakraborty, Commissioner of Police

Ex-pointers who are interested to attend the program are requested to register their names by 14th July 2010, by sending their details (name, batch, contact number, address) at admin@aspexs.com.

It gives us great pleasure to inform that ASPEXS Care Wing has been presented with the “Better City Better Life Award 2010” by the Public Relations Society of India.

The award was presented to the alumni association by Shri Gautam Mohan Chakraborti, Commissioner, Kolkata Police on behalf of PRSI at a ceremony in Sector V, Salt Lake, Kolkata on 16.04.2010. The award was accepted on behalf of ASPEXS by Sandip Roy Choudhury, Hony. Secretary and Anju Chirimar.

The function was attended by various other dignitaries of the city. PRSI lauded the South Point Ex-students’ Association for launching this unique initiative. The other awardees of the evening included Mr J P Agarwal, renowned architect, Dr. Robin Sengupta, well known neurosurgeon, Mr B D Sharma, IPS and “Pronam” a social welfare project by the Kolkata Police.

Anju Chirimar, while thanking PRSI for presenting the honor to ASPEXS, also appealed to alumni of other schools and colleges to take up such initiatives for their own retired teachers.

Some photographs: Photo1, photo2