Monthly Archives: June 2014

Patient gets new lease of life after rare aorta surgery

Kolkata :

Imagine a blood vessel swelling up like a balloon measuring 13 cm in diameter inside your chest. This is what had happened to a 27-year-old patient from Bangladesh, who went through a life-saving surgery to get rid of the football-sized inflammation at a city hospital last week. The complicated surgery was done by putting the patient on a heart-lung machine which didn’t require doctors to open his chest.

The young man had undergone an aortic valve replacement in his country two years ago, following which he developed the life-threatening complication known as aortic aneurysm. The aorta, which is the main vessel originating from the heart that supplies blood to the entire body, had become thin-walled and dilated like a balloon about to burst. The dilated aorta extended from the aortic root to the proximal arch measuring about 13cmx15cm. It made the patient breathless and triggered severe chest pain.

“The CT scan revealed that his aorta had swelled up almost to the size of a football. This was unusual and extremely dangerous. It was probably triggered by a faulty surgery that he had undergone earlier. It required us to reopen his chest without injuring the thin-walled aortic aneurysmal sac, which was adherent to his breast bone. It also required us to repair the arch of the aorta from which the blood vessels to the brain originate. This part of the operation required the temperature of the patient to be brought down to 18°C while his blood circulation was stopped. The procedure had to be completed in less than 20 minutes or else he would have suffered a major brain stroke,” said Kunal Sarkar, chief cardiac surgeon and head of Medica Institute of Cardiac Sciences, who led the surgery.

Aortic aneurysm surgeries are considered to be complicated cardiac procedures since the blood vessel is close to the heart valve and coronary arteries. The surgery, which took six hours, has set the patient on a path of recovery. “Having performed this challenging operation with uncomplicated recovery is a significant achievement,” claimed Sarkar.

The normal size of an aorta is 3 cm. Once it crosses 5 cm, the chances of a repair through surgery start diminishing. In this case, the vessel had reached four times its normal size and a rupture was imminent. Just 10-25% of patients survive a rupture.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Kolkata / TNN / June 20th, 2014

Grand tribute plan for master of folk

Kolkata :

The biggest names in Bengali music, both urban and rural, will come together to pay tribute to Gautam Chatterjee, the founder of ‘Mohiner Ghoraguli’ who is credited with popularizing folk music in the city and pioneering rock music in Bengal, on his 15th death anniversary on Friday. It’s a grand opportunity for music lovers to catch veterans Debdas Baul, Bishwanath Baul, Mansur Fakir and many more along with the legend’s son Gaurab Chatterjee, Rupam Islam of ‘Fossils’, Sidhu of ‘Cactus’, Silajit and other youth icons sharing the stage, making music and reminiscing about an era gone by.

The tribute event at Rabindra Sadan, that will feature veteran ‘Mohiner Ghoraguli’ members and associated artists along with those inspired by the music innovator, will have several special moments. Abraham Mazumdar will again perform at the venue with the same Stradivarius violin he used with Mohin on stage as well as in recordings. Lopamudra Mitra said: “I’m planning to sing what I believe is Monida’s last piece of work. It was the title track of a TV serial, ‘Poush Shraboner Pala’, which was sung by me.”

True to Gautam’s legacy of bringing West and East together on the same page, the wide range of musicians invited to perform or as guests will also embrace the two worlds in an organic blend. So you have music director Debajyoti Mishra, Parama, Surajit of ‘Bhoomi’, Kalika Prasad of ‘Dohar’ along with Somlata, folk music pair Malabika-Sanjay, Mohin contemporary Ranjan Prasad as well as original members Pradip Chatterjee and Tapas ‘Bapi’ Das. Artist Hiran Mitra, celebrated for his Mohin-related illustrations will also share his memories of Gautam.

“Monida, along with poet Dipak Majumdar, set the stage for baul-fakiri musicians to step on the global platform. He brought artists like Gour Khyapa and Paban Das Baul to Kolkata and gave them the opportunity to sing for his films. This get-together is to celebrate his foresight and spirit,” said Deb Chowdhury of Sahajiya Foundation, the organizer.

Rupam told TOI: “I was very fortunate that I had the honour of knowing him. He appreciated my music and had even called me the ‘blue-eyed boy of Bangla rock’, after him, of course. I’m immensely grateful to him for that comment. His encouragement always gave me a boost. I’ve shared the stage and jammed with him, and going to the book fair and singing was a tradition of ours. At the tribute event, I will reminisce about my history with Monida.” Sidhu recounted: “What drew me most to Gautamda was the way he enjoyed music – the passion for music that took him beyond technicalities. I was very young, but these elements were drilled into my consciousness. Later on, the lyrics of ‘Mohiner Ghoraguli’ songs set a benchmark, which was a driving force for young musicians like us.”

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Kolkata / by Shounak Ghosal, TNN / June 19th, 2014

Supercars roar when city snores

Some of the superstars of Calcutta’s first Supercars Club lined up on Rajarhat Main Road after a Sunday sortie starting before dawn./  Picture by Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya
Some of the superstars of Calcutta’s first Supercars Club lined up on Rajarhat Main Road after a Sunday sortie starting before dawn./ Picture by Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya

A Lamborghini Gallardo in the garage doesn’t just set you back by Rs 3.06 crore, it also means losing sleep over how to drive the dream machine on a Calcutta road.

Parveen Agarwal, 31, figured out that the best time to take his LP 550-2 for a spin without having to worry about L31 scraping a side mirror was when the city would be asleep. Thus was born the city’s first Supercars Club, comprising a group of young automobile aficionados who are up and revving before dawn every Sunday and back before chaos returns to the city roads.

The club members may prefer to enjoy their cars away from the crowd, but they are discovering that it’s hard for their showboats not to draw attention to themselves wherever they go.

When the group halts at a Ballygunge Circular Road café after a drive down the Rajarhat Expressway and NH2 on a Sunday morning, everyone from the walker to the waiter seems mesmerised by the row of magnificent engines that include a Bentley Continental GTC, a Jaguar F-Type V6 and a BMW Z4, among other beauties.

“We are strictly not into racing. We are just a like-minded set of people who love to go for drives and hang out together at cafes or restaurants. It’s more fun driving in a group than individually,” says Parveen, introducing the club that he formed soon after his Lambo came home.

The Lamborghini Gallardo Longitudinale Posteriore five-hundred-and-fifty dash two, Fiftieth Anniversario India Serie Speciale (yes, it’s meant to be spelt out!), is Parveen’s second supercar after the Porsche that wife Paromita says she forced him to buy. “He was more a biker before that. I wanted to part of his outings, so I forced him to bring a Porsche and then got him to upgrade (to a Lamborghini)!” quips Paromita, who now accompanies her businessman husband on the Sunday drive.

Parveen’s brother Bikash, who has taken over the Porsche, is also a member of the club.

For auto dealer Amit Modi, the driving force behind his growing fleet of super cars is his 12-year-old son Devangsh, a student of Class VII at La Martiniere for Boys. “It was he who told me I should get the Bentley Continental GTC after the Jaguar F-Type V8 Supercharged,” says Amit.

Devangsh, who was able to identify marques at five, is up to speed on the precision engineering that goes into the making of supercars. He points out that the GTC, his father’s latest acquisition, has a phenomenal 6-litre W12 twin turbo engine that does 0 to 100kmph in 5.1 seconds.

But ask him what he likes about the white Bentley and Devangsh is like any other 12-year-old. “It’s a convertible!”

Engineer Arijit Saha, another of Parveen’s friends in the Supercars Club, owns a 3.5-litre BMW Z4 apart from a Harley-Davidson Forty-Eight, among other bikes.

But while biking isn’t a problem whenever he is up for it, Arijit rues that he can’t drive his Beemer where he lives.

“I live in Howrah and it is next to impossible to drive a sports car in those narrow lanes. So, every Sunday morning is like an event for me,” says Arijit, who looks forward to the company of his motoring friends as much as he does the Sunday drive.

One of those friends is Rishi Raj Lohia, who owns a Jaguar XJL, a BMW 330 and a Mercedes-Benz ML350 apart from his “prized” 3.0 litre V6 F-Type Supercharged. “I drive the Beemer to work, I take out the Jag once in a while, and I drive the ML when I am not driving carefully!” says Rishi, who doesn’t allow his family driver to sit at the wheel of any of these cars.

Does he also say no to his mates in the Sunday Drive Club? “No, I don’t. How else would I get to drive a Lambo or a Bentley convertible?”

The one thing he and the other supercar owners are extra careful about is where they park their prized possessions. “I take my F-Type only to places where there is secured parking. I don’t park on roads and under trees,” says Rishi.

The next car on Rishi’s wish-list is the Ferrari Italia Spider, which he just might get for his 26th birthday!

Aritra Ghosh has just “stepped up” from a Mercedes-Benz C-Class to the Z4 but says he is partial to neither, whether driving to work or for pleasure. “The Z4 is, of course a high performer and it shows when I am on a Sunday drive with my friends,” he says.

The other club members, Arinjan Mazumdar and siblings Saurabh and Anish Poddar, between them own at least seven top cars in the Sunday Club line-up.

Arinjan, who runs a plastics company, has a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder and an Audi R8 in his garage. Brothers Saurabh and Anish Poddar have a 1993 Ferrari 348 TB (Transversale Berlinetta), the BMW 640D, the Mercedes-Benz SL 320 AMG, the S500 Launch Edition and the Jaguar Supersport XJ, among others.

Parveen attributes the bonhomie between the supercar owners not to the common factor of being able to afford luxury models but a shared love of anything connected to cars and bikes. Apart from meeting almost every week, they are connected online and their interaction is invariably about the machines that make their hearts rev.

Arijit’s Facebook profile has an entire picture album dedicated to his “mechanical girlfriends”, including his first one: a Royal Enfield Thunderbird 350 that he bought in 2006.

According to Parveen, keeping the Supercars Club small is the key to keeping the friendship alive and the adrenaline pumping.

“Our club isn’t a registered entity yet and we aren’t a large group either. Ideally, we would like to have the size of the club restricted to 12-15 members,” he says.

What none of them wants to rein in, of course, is the spirit of the supercar experience: seat belt strapped, hands on steering, foot on the pedal, eye on the road, surrender.

WHEELS OF DESIRE

BMW Z4

Top speed: 250kmph
Price: Rs 79.75lakh (on road, Calcutta)

PORSCHE BOXSTER S

Top speed: 279kmph
Price: Rs 93.13lakh (ex-Calcutta)

JAGUAR F TYPE

Engine: 3 litre V6 380
Price: Rs 1.49cr (ex-Delhi)

JAGUAR F TYPE

Engine: 5 litre V8 550
Price: Rs 1.79cr (ex-Delhi)

LAMBORGHINI GALLARDO

Top speed: 320kmph
Price: Rs 3.06cr (ex-Mumbai)

BMW Z4

Engine: 2979cc
Runs on: petrol
0-100kmph in: 5.1secs

BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GTC

Top speed: 314kmph
Price: Rs 2.15cr (ex-Mumbai)

Which is your dream car? Tell ttmetro@abpmail.com

source: http://www.telegraphindia.com / The Telegraph, Calcutta – India / Front Page> Calcutta> Story / by Anasuya Basu / Saturday – June 14th, 2014

Xaverian alumni chapter in Europe

Father Felix Raj with SXC alumni at Luxembourg
Father Felix Raj with SXC alumni at Luxembourg

The St. Xavier’s College Alumni Association has a new international chapter — this time in Europe.

Father Felix Raj, the principal of St. Xavier’s College, inaugurated the new chapter in Luxembourg on May 3. He met Archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich of the Catholic Archdiocese of Luxembourg, who offered him all possible assistance towards the successful functioning of the chapter in Europe. The Archbishop also promised help in the international collaboration between St. Xavier’s and the University of Luxembourg.

Father Felix Raj also met the alumni of the college to formally announce the formation of Europe Chapter and presented the SXC Vision 2020 of the college.

The meeting was attended by ecretaire ge´ne´rale chez Archevêché´ de Luxembourg. L.N. Mittal, a Xaverian, is the largest private employer in Luxembourg with more than 5,000 employees.

The alumni of the college present included Vijay Goyal, CFO, ArcelorMittal Europe, Augustine Kochuparampil, CEO, ArcelorMittal Europe -Long Products, Sapna Arora, global corporate manager of ArcelorMittal University, Deepak Goenka, manager finance, ArcelorMittal Europe-Long Products, Aditya Sharma, director, EU Energy Markets, RSRL and board member of the Indian Business Chamber of Luxembourg and Smriti Goyal. Sharma was selected general Secretary of Europe Chapter.

After Luxembourg, Felix Raj headed for Cologne, Germany to present the SXC Vision 2020 to Cologne NGOs.

source: http://www.telegraphindia.com / The Telegraph, Calcutta – India / Front Page> Calcutta> Story / by A Staff Reporter / Wednesday – May 28th, 2014

Art adda at Chowrasta

– Arena for political bouts gets new colour

Pankaj Ghosh paints Mount Kanchenjungha at Chowrasta in Darjeeling on Sunday. / Picture by Suman Tamang
Pankaj Ghosh paints Mount Kanchenjungha at Chowrasta in Darjeeling on Sunday. / Picture by Suman Tamang

Darjeeling :

Chowrasta, Darjeeling’s promenade that has seen one too many rallies of late, had musicians, artists and poets milling around this weekend.

A Darjeeling-based NGO, Life and Leaf, organised the adda, or ghamghat in Nepali.

The event, held on Saturday and Sunday, was called Jamghat and attracted local people as well as tourists.

Minket Lepcha, the marketing head of Life and Leaf that promotes local artisans, said the Jamghat was aimed at fusing young minds with old crafts. “We wanted to provide a creative platform to local artistes and musicians and this is how Jamghat happened,” he said.

Chowrasta had been more of a venue for political programmes in recent years. It has been the venue to Bimal Gurung’s and Mamata Banerjee’s meetings.

Of late, the Chowrasta’s green cover seemed threatened when private contractors started marking trees to cut them down and make way for a market complex for displaced hawkers. On May 22, Darjeeling residents stopped contractors from marking trees at Chowrasta.

Today at the Jamghat, poets Manoj Bagota, Nima Sherpa and Pradip Lohagun mesmerised the crowd with their lines in Nepali, Lakit Lepcha and Deoashish Mothey surprised the audience with their performance with pontong palit and esraj. “Pontong palit is a flute like instrument of the Lepcha community and Lakit is the only female playing this instrument now,” said Minket.

Deoashish Mothey, another participant, said: “Esraj is a Persian musical instrument introduced by Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan.”

The long forgotten song of the Gurung community, Ghatuseri Geet, was also sung by Amir Gurung from Sikkim.

The event was supported by a group of artisans who had come up with an animation on the Nepali warnamala (alphabets) — a method to teach vowels and consonants to children.

Songs, which are part of the animation, were sung by children at the event.

As the songs were being sung at the main square of Chowrasta, six artists were seen painting in another corner. Pankaj Ghosh and Pravin Gurung were engrossed in painting the Kanchenjungha. Paul Bhutia was drawing the picture of a meditating Buddha. In another corner, 10 organic tea farmers were seen promoting hand-rolled tea. The farmers were from Chottapubung, 35km from here.

source: http://www.telegraphindia.com / The Telegraph, Calcutta – India / Front Page> North Bengal & Sikkim > Story / by Vivek Chhetri / Wednesday – May 26th, 2014

Kolkata waits as six-year mystery of three 300-year-old chests to end soon

SUMMARY
The chests were discovered in 2008 when a woman in her 60s sold her plot at 178, Rash Behari Avenue, in south Kolkata.

Geologists, archaeologists and policemen are waiting for June 16, when three iron chests kept at Gariahat Police Station for the past six years will be opened.

Believed to be 300-400 years old, each weighing about 1,000 kg, the chests will be opened following a court order, in the presence of representatives of the Geological Survey of India, Archaeological Survey of India and Kolkata Police.

The chests were discovered in 2008 when a woman in her 60s sold her plot at 178, Rash Behari Avenue, in south Kolkata to a shoe company, and digging began to construct a showroom. While the shoe company claimed the chests as its own, the former owner said these belonged to her forefathers and so she was the rightful claimant.
Though the city of Kolkata was officially set up in 1690, before that it had prosperous villages under the zamindari of Sabarna Roy Choudhury.

The chests were taken to the Garihat Police Station, even as both the woman and the shoe company went to court. In December 2013, the Alipore court ordered that the chests be opened.

“I am excited. The chests may have anything. I am sending some experts there,” said Ashok Patel, ASI superintending archaeologist.
The Fire Department has been told to open the chests. “It’s a court order… We have asked the police to arrange for crowd management as a considerable number of people may turn up,” said D P Tarenia, DG, Fire Services.

source: http://www.indianexpress.com / The Indian Express / Home> Cities> Kolkata / by Sabyasachi Bandopadhyah / Kolkata – June 13th, 2014

Visva-Bharati may award Deshikottama to Manna Dey

Visva-Bharati may award the Deshikottama posthumously to Manna Dey, who passed away last month.

If the decision is finally taken, it will be the first incidence of the award being conferred posthumously.

It is the highest honour awarded by Visva-Bharati and earlier recipients include Satyajit Ray, pandit Ravishankar, Mother Teresa, Lata Mangeshkar and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who was also a student for a brief period when Tagore was at the helm.

The decision will be taken by the executive committee later this month.

The convocation is expected to be in December.

Earlier, it was decided that President of India Pranab Mukherjee would hand over the certificates during the convocation.

The names of all persons who would be receiving the Deshikottama was finalised earlier.

Besides Manna Dey, others selected for Deshikottama were Nobel peace prize winner and Myanmar’s flame of democracy Aung San Suu Kyi, former Bhutan king Jigme Singye Wangchuk, Chinese scholar Tan Chung, space scientist Dr K Kasturirangan and filmmaker Adoor Gopalkrishnan.

But after the demise of Manna Dey, his inclusion needs to be freshly looked at.

“If the statute of the university does not allow posthumous presentation of Deshikottam, then the rules will have to be revised. An application will be sent to Prime Minister Monmohan Singh, who is our chancellor,” a senior VB official told HT.

Now the authorities are planning to place the proposal before the executive council. If the proposal is passed then the university has to apply to the PMO.

source: http://www.hindustantimes.com / Hindustan Times / Home> India-News> Kolkata / by Surojit Ghosh Hazra, Hindustan Times / Kolkata – November 07th, 2013

Masterpieces to be displayed at Victoria

Kolkata :

Most of us who have only heard of priceless masterpieces like ‘Bharat Mata’, ‘Aurangzeb At Prayer’, ‘The Passing of Shah Jahan’ or the Krishna series by none less than Abanindranath Tagore will now get a chance to see them in original. These invaluable paintings, which have the culture ministry’s tag of “national treasure” — meaning that the originals can never be taken outside the country — will be on public display for the first time at the Victoria Memorial in July. And not just a couple of them, there will be nearly 150 paintings by Abanindranath on display, to showcase his entire career of 50 years.

This is not all. Paintings by Jyotirindranath Tagore, another famous Tagore scion, better known as Rabindranath Tagore’s Jyoti dada, will also be displayed in a following exhibition in August. The July exhibition will also see some of the best works of another Bengal master, Nandalal Bose. This treasure trove is part of a booty that has been loaned out to Victoria Memorial for life by the Rabindra Bharati Society, a trust that operates out of the Jorasanko Thakurbari. A large number of memorabilia from the Tagore household had been bequeathed to the Society. However, it was not in a position to preserve such priceless paintings and decided to hand them over in 2011.

A whopping 540 paintings each of Abanindranath and Gaganendranath Tagore and 350 paintings of Jyotirindranath were loaned to Victoria Memorial along with 23 by Nandalal Bose. The Memorial authority has decided to hold continuous exhibitions of these Bengal masters so that all the paintings can be displayed in a staggered manner and people get a chance to witness these paintings.

These paintings were locked away in trunks for many years and many have sustained damages. Hence, a massive restoration project is on at the moment to heal the paintings. “Some damage-preventive treatment had been done on the paintings in the past but that was not enough, so we have started an elaborate curative treatment. Moisture content during storage and fungus can be lethal for these masterpieces,” explained Shakeel Ahmed, administrative officer of Victoria Memorial. “Since these paintings have never been put up for public display, we are cataloguing them and the catalogues for each painter will be available during respective exhibitions,” Ahmed added. He informed that in return for the life-long loan of these prize possessions, the Memorial has agreed to pay Rs 10 lakh annually.

The paintings for all the exhibitions in the series, titled, Bengal Masters, have been curated by Ratan Parimu, one of the country’s most renowned art historians and former head of the art department of Baroda’s MS University. “I have researched extensively on Aban Tagore and the experiments that he had carried on life-long to bring about a synthesis of the Western influences that he had been trained in and indigenous styles of the Mughal and Rajasthani miniatures and Kangra paintings,” Parimu said.

Painter Jogen Chowdhury, too, sounded happy. A contemporary Bengal master originally from Santiniketan, he felt emotionally connected to these creations.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Kolkata / by Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey, TNN / June 14th, 2014

India’s senior-most submariner takes over as CINCAN

Kolkata :

Vice Admiral Pradeep Kumar Chatterjee, the senior most submariner in the Indian Navy has taken over as commander-in-chief of the Andaman & Nicobar Command (CINCAN). Originally from Kolkata, Chatterjee studied at the La Martiniere School for Boys till Class-VII before joining the Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun.

“He passed out from the National Defence Academy and was commissioned into the Indian Navy on January 1, 1977. He has commanded the Type-1500 submarines Shankush and Shankul, the latter of which he commissioned. His other ship commands include Training Ship INS Krishna and the guided missile destroyer INS Rajput. He has also been Commodore Commanding Submarines (West), Principal Director, Submarine Operations and Principal Director, Submarine Acquisition at Naval Headquarters,” a senior official said.

Vice Admiral Chatterjee has also been the Flag Officer Submarines (FOSM), Flag Officer Maharashtra and Gujarat Naval Area (FOMAG) and Inspector General Nuclear Safety (IGNS) before taking over as Deputy Chief of Naval Staff. From that post, he took over as chief of the tri-services Andaman and Nicobar Command in June.

“The A&N Command is a strategic one and the Vice Admiral’s experience will prove helpful in the days to come. Though a tri-services command, the Navy is the key element in ANC and his taking over will help in better co-ordination,” the official added.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Kolkata / by Jayanta Gupta , TNN / June 11th, 2014

Sweet send-off for Master Blaster Sachin: Cake & sandesh from Balaram

Sweet surprise for the Master Blaster from the land of sandesh and rosogollas.

The landmark 128-year-old sweet shop Balaram Mullick and Radharaman Mullick is gearing up to give a sugary send-off to the genius with a five-pound eggless cake and a 5-kg ‘ Naler Gurer’ Sandesh.

While the cake has Sachin’s face on it surrounded by cricket balls made of white chocolate, thehe sandesh has chocolate hearts surrounding the Master Blaster’s figure holding a bat.

The sweet shop is famous for their ‘ jol bhora nalen gurer sandesh’.

“Cricket Association of Bengal ordered the cake. The sandesh is a gift from us to him to express our love and respect. This morning, we went and handed both to him,” Sudip Mullick, proprietor, said.

“The message on the cake reads ‘ To the God of Cricket, 199th Test match, Eden Gardens 2013’. ‘ Thank You for being Sachin, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna’, says the message on the sandesh” Mullick added.

The round cake is adorned with chocolate and chocolate chips. Piping chocolates have been used to draw Sachin’s face.

The rectangular sandesh is bordered with two types of dark chocolates. Chocolates hearts are placed on the sandesh surrounding Sachin’s image with a bat in hand.

Trademark Bengali utensils such as lohar kadai and kather taroo (4-feet-long wooden spatula made of segun and saalwood) have been used to make the sandesh.

Interestingly, it is not only Balaram Mullick but other renowned and traditional sweet shops which vied for a chance to present Sachin with traditional Bengali sweets.

Girish Chandra Dey and Nakur Chandra Nandi in north Kolkata was one of them.

“We had proposed a 30-kg chocolate sandesh for Sachin. I am a cricket fan and a fan of Sachin,” Partha Nandi from Nakur.

In May 2012, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee felicitated Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens.

A huge cake from Nakur was cut to mark the day in the presence of Mamata and Shah Rukh Khan.

source: http://www.hindustantimes.com / Hindustan Times / Home> India-News> Kolkata / by Ravik Bhattacharya, Hindustan Times / Kolkata – November 06th, 2013