ASPEXS organizes the annual back-to-school reunion within school campus on 13th April on the eve of Poila Boishakh (Bengali new year). The event will start from 6pm with screening of a documentary film on South Point School made by noted film director Abhijit Dasgupta (82 Batch ) and music by Tanmoy Bose (82 Batch ). This film was made to commemorate the Golden Jubilee Celebration of South Point School. This will be followed by the DRAMA "Kenaram Becharam" staged by ex-pointers under the able guidance of Sri Arnab Roy Chowdhury ('76 HS).

300 Invitee Passes will be available 10th April onwards from Junior School on first come first serve basis till stocks last. Passes are priced at Rs.25 each, which will include a free snacks coupon of about the same value. Passes are FREE for ASPEXS Life members / honorary members. Passes will NOT be available at venue. Please contact Mr. Dean Surtee for details at 9330966424 or write to admin@aspexs.com.

This is your once a year opportunity to visit the school, your old classrooms, auditorium, canteen (will be open), playground. Ex-pointers are welcome along with their spouses / kids.

PS: Some Photos from Medical Wing Medical Camp on 6th April has been uploaded. Please check: http://www.aspexs.com/PhotoGallery.aspx

Time has come to give back something to our beloved Alma Mater South Point. We all agree upon the school’s contribution to our success. We know if we try for rest of our lives we will not be able to pay back our debt, but at least we can show the gesture of good intention.

Last year we lost one of our friends Mr. Gaurav Gupta. When we were trying to gather resources to help him, he left us. This gave us one of our non-doctor alumni, Anindya Majumdar, a thought to start a Medical Wing of ASPEX. This idea was greeted by a big number of alumni as was evident on the website thread - "Medical Wing".

After series of meetings on every Sunday at Junior School over the last two months, a good number of ex-pointer doctors have come together under the flagship of ASPEXS (Association of South Point Ex-students') to form an ASPEXS Medical Wing.

To inaugurate the Medical Wing, we have planned to start with a Health Check-up service on April 6, 2008 (Sunday). The first health checkup service is dedicated to the ones, who has immense contribution in our life, i.e., teachers, ex-teachers, staff, ex-staff of our school. The health camp would start from 9 A.M. and would continue till 4 P.M. The program would be divided into two halves. The first half would be from 9 A.M. to 1 P.M. and the second half would be from 2 P.M. to 4 P.M, with one hour lunch break from 1 P.M. to 2 P.M.

Apart from routine health check-up we would also have specialty services. From 12 noon to 1 PM, there would be an open forum where anyone & everyone can meet the specialists and address their queries. This is open to everyone who attends the medical wing. We welcome all ex-students to come & attend this open discussion between 12 noon to 1pm.

The tentative list of doctors who will attend the programme are:

GP: Dr. Sachin Rao, Dr. Abhishek Dutta, Dr. Partha Roy Chowdhury, Dr. Sabyasachi Sen, Dr. Ambar Banerjee, Dr. Suvakar Palit, Dr. Ayan Jha.
Cardiology: Dr. Saumitra Ray, Dr. Soupayan Dutta, Dr. Debabrata Roy, Dr. Indraneel Dutta
Neurology & Neuro Surgery: Dr. Amitabha Chanda, Dr. Angshu Sen, Dr. Angshuman Mukherjee
ENT: Dr. Atri Banerjee, Dr. Anik Bhattacharya
Endocrinology / Diabetology / Nephrology: Dr. Sumit Mukherjee, Dr. Shiladitya Nandi, Dr. Shubhankar Chowdhury, Dr. Sujoy Majumdar.
Urology: Dr. Gopal Krishnan
Gastroentrology: Dr. Indranil Saha
Gynecology: Dr. Rohit Gutgutia, Dr. Beda Bhattacharya
Orthopedic: Dr. Goutam Biswas, Dr. Sourav Ghosh
Psychiatric:  Dr. Bhargavi Bhattacharyya
Dental: Dr. Rajarshi Banerjee,  Dr. Siddhartha Nath
Pulmonology: Dr. Shubhasish Ghosh
General Surgery: Dr. Mrinmay Nandy, Dr. Sumit Chaudhury, Dr. Saugata Deb
Padeatric: Dr. Tapabrata Chatterjee

Chief Advisor: Dr. Mrinmay Nandy
Convenor: Dr. Amitabha Chanda
Coordinator: Dr. Saumitra Ray

Ruby Hospital, Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Armenian Church Trauma Center & Priyamvada Birla Aravind Eye Hospital are helping us with equipments & nurses.

Already 40 ex-teachers have registered for the medical check up. All ex-pointers (members & non-members of ASPEXS) are invited to join the medical camp to meet the teachers, to attend the open forum & in all to make the programme a success. Any other ex-pointer doctor or interested ex-students who wishes to volunteer their service for the medical wing events, please email us at admin@aspexs.com or contact Mr. Dean Surtee at 9330966424 or Mr. Rakesh Bhatia at 9432276554.

Dreams Die Young - A Debut Novel by C.V.Murali (Email:cvmural@vsnl.com)
(1980 Madhyamik, SPHS)

This tale is set against the backdrop of the Naxalite movement which rocked Bengal and Calcutta in the 60s and 70s and drew large number of youth from the colleges of Calcutta.

It tells the story of Rajat Sen, a successful professor in U.S., who is tormented by the memories of a disturbed past. Inner torment about social inequities and a close association with fellow collegiate Arindam had led a young and idealistic Rajat to an association with the Naxalite movement. As part of a group of young men and women, Rajat plans and executes daring plans to shake the foundations of bureaucracy and polity by killing key people. As Rajat is sucked into a vortex of high ideals and violence, his innocent, protected life as the only son of well-to-do parents seem to have been left a long way behind. However, is violence the answer to a corrupt society? He thinks so, until the day he comes face to face with reality ...

The book is available in various book stores across the country-Oxford, Landmark, etc and on the website at the following adddres: www.frogbooks.net

Gaurab Gupta, an ex-student of South Point High School (1990 Batch Secondary and '92 Higher Secondary) used to be a lively, cheerful and energetic person who had great plans for his future until he got affected with Hepatitis B. He needs immediate kidney transplantion. His life hinges on  a few dialyses, unless he manages to garner enough funds to go for necessary medication and kidney transplant. His ongoing medical expenses are also very steep and his father's pension and ad hoc aid from friends are not nearly enough. ASPEXS (SOUTH POINT EX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION) has taken the initiative to collect money to assist Gaurab‘s fight and has initiated a "SAVE GAURAV GUPTA FUND". An initial corpus of about Rs 50000 has already been collected.

ASPEXS invites all ex-pointers & specially the ASPEXS life members & batch captains for a meeting on Sunday, 30^th September 2007, at 11am (Venue: South Point Junior School Campus) to discuss the way forward for this drive.

Summary of last Sunday's meeting is available here.

Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury (aka Tony), an ex-pointer from 1981 Madhyamik Batch, has directed and produced his first feature-film, Anuranan (The Resonance). The film stars Rahul Bose, Rituparna Sengupta, Raima Sen and Rajat Kapoor. FILM RELEASING on 6th July in theatres. Details: http://www.anuranan.com