Dear BAGA Members and Patrons,

 

On behalf of BAGA, I want to thank you for coming to our BAGA Saraswati Puja held at Shamrock Middle School on Saturday, January 23^rd and making it a great success.

 

It was a fully celebrated day!

 

The Saraswati Puja ceremony was performed devotedly by Sailada (Mr. Sailendra Banerjee). I sincerely appreciate Sailada to help BAGA by performing the Puja in place of Parthada and conducting it so perfectly.

 

Everyone enjoyed Puja Prasad including the “Narkol Kul”. The traditional Saraswati Puja Bengali lunch along with “Ilish Maach” was also appreciated by all attending members.

BYC (BAGA Youth Committee) did a fabulous job in Puja Stage Decoration lead by Alo Ghosh and supervised by BYC Chairperson, Ria Rakhit.

The light cultural program performed by little kids representing BAGA and Bangla School was also very enjoyable.

 

“BAGA” officially entered into a strategic partnership with “Shamrock Middle School” by offering support to the “School Educational System”. The ceremony was attended by School Principal. Mr. Robert B. Thorpe and County Representative, Mr. Dale A. Bowen,

 

The election for 2010 President was held with a true BAGA spirit! We congratulate Mr. Achintya Dey to be the winner as the New BAGA President.

At this time, I would like to acknowledge the following members for their contribution in Saraswati Puja:

Chatni - Mamata Paul, Krishnakali Dutta, Joyita Dev, Chandra Roy

Misti Doi - Soma De, Krishnakali Dutta, Mousumi Karanjee, Saswati Mukherjee, Kalyani Kar, Mausumi Basu (Bhattacharya).

Narkol Naru – Shanta Gupta

Sandesh/Misti – Pratima Sau.

Ilish Maach Preparation - Papia Dutta, Reshmi Mukherjee, Saswati Banerjee

 

I wopuld also take this opportunity to thank my Executive Committee members - Debasree, Joyita, Mitudi and Subhankar for providing me their constant support during past one year. I thank Maladi for patiently working with us on the subject of food selection. It was a great pleasure working with her. Our cultural committee members (Reshmi & Adity) took many chllenges in coordinating all cultural events and I thank them as well. 

 

On a special note, I want to thank Kiritida & Shantadi for their constant support towards our committee.

 

And, of course, I am grateful to all BAGA members for giving me the opportunity to serve BAGA as President. I honestly enjoyed my time - a lot!

 

We, all, are now looking forward to another great year ahead under the leadership of Achintyada. His team will take charge after the handover meeting (~March).

 

With my best wishes to the new EC team and all BAGA members & well wishers  –

 

Priyabrata Dutta

BAGA President (2009)