Can we paint our City Purple?

Dear Mamata Didi,

Well first I would like to congratulate you and all the people of Bengal on KKR winning IPL5. It's a moment for which we were all waiting since last 4 years. You would be feeling very happy as Kolkata after a long time will be in the news for good reasons. I hope that you may allow some kind of celebrations for achieving such a landmark (no Bandh please). Why not we start with painting the city purple?

Maam, for you nothing is impossible, your one word and SRK will be ready with Nerolac ordering his knights "Chalo kuchh paint karien" I assume that you won't have any problem with the color. It's noway close to "red". I can understand your likeness to green, but you know greenery is everywhere but purple is the new theme. It now defines victory. Your people will be glad with your new move. For people to remember you always, make sure you do Toofani/Manmaani always and there will no better time than now to do so some toofani and declare "Paint it purple".

You can start with the Writer's building (it looks dirty and need a new paint!)

And then you can try with Victoria Memorial, white seems out of picture now a days and purple is the new color in demand.
You can also do away with white and black at zebra crossing. Purple will do a lot good there also to grab people's attention.
Red has been there in traffic signals for more than a century (first traffic light was used in 1868, London) which is more than 37 years. You can do away with that too. Cars, Buses, trucks and other vehicles will see purple more often, green was always there in the signal plus you have an opportunity to get rid of red.

And since there is no such thing such as state color of Bengal, why not we start a trend by declaring purple as our state color so that other state will start to follow. We will design our own State flag (I can help)
Change is what you like Maam, "Poriborton" and "Poschim Bongo" is your favorite word and so "Purple" will fit in nicely. It too starts with "P"

I have made up my mind, I am turning to purple when I am painting my house next. And If possible the gates will have a golden hint in it.
I love to eat Eclairs (my favorite chocolate). It too has a purple and gold color wrapper.
Purple define rich, class, luxury, smoothness, quality, etc.. SRK and Knights did the right thing by shifting to purple from black. Take a hint from him (he is the brand ambassador of Bengal afterall) and say "chalo paint karein"

I am from Kolkata but I live in Bangalore these days, (what to do there is not much job opportunities for engineers like us in Kolkata) but I would be readily helpful in case you need any from me. 

Knights after their final victory, see how Manoj, Shukla and Das - the Bengali dudes are celebrating.
"Babu Moshai" hum aap sabke fan hai

Sincerely
Loyal KKR fan from Kolkata

Remembering my school - Shree Jain Vidyalaya

"Where to Sir?" Nothing surprising when the Taxi driver asked us this question. Usually we take a bus to school but that day was different. Getting late was not our choice neither did we feel happy about. That was the fear installed in us by our school that force us to reach the school before time. Even a minute late was considered unforgiven. Hence me and my 2 friends decided to take a taxi. "Take us to Jain school in Barabazar" we replied. As it was just 6.25 AM in the morning, Taxi was ready for its first trip and road was rather empty, so 5 mins was more than enough for us to cover those 5 kms to school.
"Jain school?!? Where is that?" asked the driver
"That school after Tea Board office , don't you know that?" said one of my friend
"Oh! are you saying about Shree Jain Vidyalaya?"
"Yes, yes that only"
"Sir, don't you feel proud to pronounce your scool's name properly? I have heard that that school have taught to many greats, the teachers are of high quality and they produce many talented and rank holders in state and as well as in the country?"
We couldn't utter a word in embarassment. That day I understood that lesson can be taught by anyone, you just need to be ready for that.

Since I have already stated my school's name, yes it is Shree Jain Vidyalaya, I would like to say something about it. Well, ofcourse it is of high standards. The percentage of first division is about 80% of total students. To enter into 11th standard was itself an achievment on my part. The teachers always said that "2 Ps" are famous in this school, one is Padhai(studies) and the other is pitai(punishment). They believed in "spare the rod, spoil the child" concept. That was 7 years ago, I don't know how the school behaves now. To me that was good. The students always studied out of their interest and high ambition so no case of "pitai". I took a lot of pride in my school's library. It was full of all kinds of book. In those days no friend of mine from other school ever said anything about their school's library that could make me believe that they had a better library than mine.

2 years was well spent in that school. I never went back for 4 years after class12 even though I always remembered them. I would often recommend it the young talented students. 4 years on after clearing my Higher Secondary exams there was a urge in the students of our batch to meet up again with the teachers, a kind of re-union. Not of a grand type but yes we did meet with a few handfull of us and no teacher. Nevertheless it was experience of reliving that part of school life that had a huge contribution of making us what we are today.

some of the few mates after 4 years of re union