Two young men out of 100 million.
Exercising their right to vote.
Raju and Ashok show off their inked fingers after voting in the Indian Lok Sabha Elections 2019.
In the world’s biggest democracy everyone gets a voice.
Tag: Ashok
Durga Puja – visiting the pandals
2018 Durga Puja - Guria all dressed up and ready to go
2018 Durga Puja - Prity and Puja in the car
2018 Durga Puja - Lali and Ashok
2018 Durga Puja - Tamina and Pappu
2018 Durga Puja - Subhash
2018 Durga Puja - Ashok and Pinku in purple light
2018 Durga Puja - Raju having a quiet moment
2018 Durga Puja - Sanjay and his daughter
2018 Durga Puja - pandal hopping is hard work so Lali takes an ice cream break
2018 Durga Puja - an underwater pandal
2018 Durga Puja - Tamina, Prity and Guria in the car
2018 Durga Puja - Lali, Bablu Lal, Ashok and Sumon in the car
2018 Durga Puja - Ashok
2018 Durga Puja - Ashok and Lali
2018 Durga Puja - even Aakash went to see the pandals
Goodbye Rabia
All of us at shuktara are devastated by the loss of Rabia who died so suddenly on Monday.
Rabia was one of the first students in a small group that Bryan and Alison taught typing and computer skills to in 1999. Those small classes would become known as Uddami and they moved to Anwar Shah Road. Her skills in leadership developed and her role became pivotal in the success of the students that she herself started teaching.
Those early classes were held in a room adjacent to the original shuktara boys house where Rabia struck up such a wonderful loving friendship with Sunil and later with Ashok - (both pictured here).
Coming as often as she could to the celebrations we hold at our homes, she was a face known and loved by all the staff as well as the whole shuktara family with whom she was so gentle with.
Rabia was instrumental in helping out with computer classes for the Deaf community here in Kolkata which also included some of our young people.
We are all heartbroken at losing her.
We will miss her immeasurably.
And our annual Saraswati Puja will never be the same again.
