The Dutta Family
Welcome
Welcome to the Dutta family website."Amar Family" besides meaning "my family" in Bengali also expands to "Amitava, Meenakshi, Agneish and Rishi", the four members of our family. We are from Kolkata in India (yes, we do love the "rossogollas"). We are "probashis", i.e. living outside our homeland.
I, 'Amit' for most, 'Dots' for my classmates from medical school, am a doctor, an orthopaedic surgeon to be precise. Meenakshi or 'Mithi' to family and friends or 'Meena' to some is a school teacher. Agneish and his brother Rishi go to university.
2006
2006 has been an interesting year with trips to Warwick and around London in August and a trip to India at Christmas time to round off the year. We went to Calcutta and enjoyed ourselves. India is rapidly industrializing and improving in many ways; this is fantastic for the country. We noticed that Warwick is one of the best universities in the country and we stayed at a B&B owned by someone who had a relative on the England rugby team! Great holidays. Good Year.
2008
Our locations proved truly intercontinental in the Summer of 2008. First, Rishi went on his World Challenge expedition to Tanzania, where he was for a month. Then, we had all planned to go to India after a week (and to meet Rishi there), but Rikki and I ended up going to a JIPMER meeting in Boston. So at one point, the 4 family members were in 3 continents, but this was soon rectified when we came back to London to meet Rishi and then the three of us flew onto India. By this point, the 4 of us had been travelling for the past few weeks, so, after one week in Calcutta in which we gratefully met the family again, we came back to London: back to work and school
2009
Well after going to the States last year, and glimpsing New York in a day, this time we decided to spend some more time out there. Initially, Rikki's trip to the states consisted of a 4-week stint in Baltimore, but he also got to see D.C., New York City and some surrounding areas. (On the way back, he saw Philadelphia and Chicago from the air!)
Rishi then travelled with friends to see New York City for a full week before the rest of the family flew out to New York for one more week, where we met Rikki, and then moved onto Washington, D.C. The culture and attractions of the US were great to experience; accordingly, we did all the tourist things in New York: Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Centre, Madison Square Garden, Ground Zero, Central Park, a cruise on the East River, and Rishi saw a Broadway show. D.C. offered The Pentagon, the Jefferson Memorial, the WWII Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the White House, Washington Monument and we got to see Obama and Marine One!
A highly energetic year all around, in terms of holidays.
2010
The previous entries provide an entertaining read, it must be said. This year has been equally eventful, though. In the Summer, Rishi travelled to Hong Kong for a week with a variety of interesting stories about the city. Within a day of his return, we all flew to Dubai where we spent a few days seeing the sites. Particularly impressive was the desert safari as well as the outright size of the Burj Khalifa. We then went on to Kolkata (almost an annual trip by now!) and saw family and some new sites. This set of hectic holidays has produced a current lull, but with Rikki off to Amsterdam and Rishi off to Newquay, and then Cambridge in a month's time, life doesn't look too slow in 2010!
Archive:
Happy New Year to everyone! We all wish you a happy and prosperous New Year. At the beginning of 2005, we were coming back from Gatwick airport in a taxi as the new year crossed. We had been in Cyprus for our Chritmas holiday and now, on our way back we saw the fireworks of London. It was good to be home. Throughout 2005, it was great fun; beginning with my birthday (February 12), in the cold winter, and continuing to the summer holidays. We went to india in August for 4 weeks and it was great fun. We got to see our relatives and stay in Calcutta with our grandparents. Then, in November, Dad had his birthday (November 5), and Rikki (November 11). In December, coming up to Christmas we planned to visit India again for Dad's JIPMER Reunion at the end of the month. We arrived in Chennai on Mum's birthday (December 22) and then drove to Pondicherry. It was mine and Rikki's first times! It was a very fun reunion, and you can see pictures of it on:
http://www.jipmer.org/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=10303
OR: www.jipmer.org
We got to meet Dad's old friends and even teachers! Then we drove to Bangalore to meet Mum's Cousin and her husband, Burimashi and Dev. It was the first time that we had been to Bangalore, the 'electronics capital of India'. It was a very interesting stay as we got to see modern shopping centres and innovative products. On the 1st of January, we flew back to Chennai, with Air Deccan, and on the 2nd back to England. It was a truly enjoyable trip with many new experiences, the year of 2005 in a nutshell. It was a great start to the new year and we are sure that 2006 will be just as fun as 2005.
Rishi Dutta
