People Who Influenced Me

This is a tribute to some well known and some not so well known great souls who influenced me in my journey. This influence was not conscious because neither they wanted to influence nor I wanted to be influenced, but it happened gradually but certainly. The inclusion to this list is based upon the amount of influence, though not directly measured using some standard metric, but evaluated through close introspection. The influences vary from professional to personal life and covers various aspects of my personality. In fact these people influenced my very existence and made me 'me'. The ordering is according to their appearance in my life and I do not discriminate based on how much they influenced me. Some have been teachers', some colleagues and some friends. I have not included family (by which I mean blood relation, because many have come close enough to be called family).

• 1. Miss. Rodrigues - Don't remember her face. Just the smell of the perfume she wore and the warmth of her hug as she consoled and cajoled the yet to be 3 years me to stay back in school as I cried. My first teacher. Class Teacher Class KG A.

  2. Miss. Lucy Baptist (Mrs. Lucy Sengupta) - Motherly. Loving, caring, scolding, pushing me to do things that I would otherwise shy away from.

  3. Fr. Leo Moras - First Principal. Strict disciplinarian. My shoes always shine and I usually am on time for appointments.

  4. Mr. Alfred Samuel - Big man. Big heart.

  5. Mr. Mihir Ranjan Sengupta - Made me believe that 'I CAN'.

  6. Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) - Film director, short story writer...multi-faceted genius. Grew up reading his work and saw the world through them.

  7. Mr. Sarat Chandra Chatterjee - Not the famous writer. He was my science teacher in school.

  8. Dr. Debasis Samanta - friend, philosopher and guide.

  9. Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902) - :-)

  10. Buddhadeva Guha - Probably the last of the great Bengali's. Life's lessons learnt.

  11. Dr. Subhabrata Choudhury

  12. Prof. Samir Roy

1. Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961)

   1. Mr. Rajesh Bhattacherjee (NERIST)

   2. Mr. Karma Tshering (NERIST)

   3. Mrs. Chandralika Chakraborty (Wife) - This is a compulsory inclusion as I can't afford to search for another at this time of life.

2. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) - Better known as Mark Twain which was his pen name.

• 1. Mr. Atanu Jana

  2. Mr. Kalyan Biswas - Bad influence good influence.

  3. Mr. Jayanta Nandy

  4. Swami Jnanabratananda - Knowledge humbles.

  5. Brig. (Dr. ). R.S.Grewal (Retd.) - one of the few sensitive and sensible administrators I have seen. Big hearted gentleman.

  6. Prof. Pramod Kumar - No idea how we got along so well. Fell out and bonded yet again. Profuse learning and great mind.

  7. Mr. Manjit Singh - Great bloke!

  8. Mr. Amit Verma - Student. Friend. Teacher. Misguided missile.

  9. Mr. Subroto Sen - Photoartist. Gentleman.

  10. Prof. Sankhayan Choudhury

  11. Mr. Bipulan Gain - Confused soul. Much like me.

  12. Maj.Gen.(Dr.) S.S.Dasaka (Retd.) - 'Trust can have no compromise'- Swami Vivekananda

  13. Swami Jnaniswarananda - Free soul.

  14. Swami Sarvottamananda - The only GENIUS I have met.

3. Mata Amritanandamayi - Know not what!

4. Prof. Biplab Sikdar

5. Col. (Dr.) Amik Garg - gentleman, always smiling.