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If you are a street-food junkie, this one’s right up your lane. t2 Food Path, the light-bite festival presented by KKN Group of Companies, starts off at noon on Saturday and continues till 9pm, long after the shops have downed shutters at Forum. Dishing out their specialities will be some of the most famous snack stops of the city. While Kusum Rolls of Park Street will hold out hot kathi rolls, a phuchkawallah from Russell Street will rustle up the tangy little treats. Hamro Momo from Lee Road will serve steaming hot dumplings and a chaatwallah from Lord Sinha Road will churn out a masala mix. Among your other must-try items are telebhaja from Ashoke in Dalhousie and bhel puri from Shankar Chaat Centre (the Dhakuria Lakes). So, mark the yummy day-out in your diary. See you on Saturday, at Forum Courtyard!
Event: KKN Group of Companies presents t2 Food Path, the Great Calcutta Street Food Festival When: Today; 12noon - 9pm Where: Forum Courtyard
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ART
Till March 9 (except Sundays & holidays) at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Tower (2nd floor), 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, 2485 8717 / 2485 8509; Mondays (3 pm - 7 pm), Tuesdays - Saturdays (2 pm - 7 pm): Concepts & Ideas 2011. Works by Sheba Chhachhi, Anjum Singh and Praneet Soi.
Till March 18 (except Sundays & public holidays) at Studio 21, 17L Dover Terrace, 24866735; Monday: 3pm-7 pm, Tuesday-Saturday: 11am - 7pm: An exhibition of recent digital works by Amrita Bagchi and Priyanka Majumdar.
Till March 31 (except Mondays) in the Portrait Gallery of Victoria Memorial; 10am - 5pm: To celebrate the birth centenary of Mother Teresa, Victoria Memorial Hall hosts twenty 20 Paintings, an exhibition of paintings on Mother by M.F. Husain and Sunita Kumar.
pERFORMING ARTS
March 5 at Satyajit Ray Auditorium, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR; 6.30 pm: On the occasion of the friendship visit to Calcutta by a delegation from Ho Chi Minh City led by Nguyen Trung Tin, vice-chairman, Ho Chi Minh People’s Committee, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR Calcutta, in association with Indo-Vietnam Solidarity Committee, Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to India and Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, presents Ho Chi Minh City’s Cultural Night.
DRAMA
March 5 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Nat-Ranga presents Snuopoka. Direction: Sohan Bandyopadhyay.
March 5 at Minerva Theatre; 6.30 pm: Natadha will stage Caesar O Cleopatra, directed by Arna Mukhopadhyay.
March 5 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30 pm: Arghya presents Meghnadbadh Kabya, directed by Manish Mitra.
March 5 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Sayak presents Mukti-Mukti, based on a story by Tagore. Direction: Meghnad Bhattacherjee.
March 6 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Bohurupee will stage Buddhadeva Bose’s Kalsandhya. Direction: Kumar Roy.
BIRTH ANNIVERSARY
Till March 6 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar: Celebrations of 176th birth anniversary of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Deva. Today at 9 am: Bhakta Sammelan. Tomorrow, 5 am onwards: Tithi Puja of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Dev. Religious meeting at 6.30 pm & Baul sangeet at 7.30 pm.
March 6 at Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, 4.30 am onwards, day-long: Celebrations of 176th birthday of Bhagavan Sri Sri Ramakrishna. Special launch services to the venue arranged by West Bengal Surface Transport Corporation Ltd.
March 6 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake: The 176th birth anniversary (Janma Tithi) of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Deva will be celebrated from 4.30 am onwards, day-long.
March 6 at Sri Ramakrishna Sarada Math, 10 Ramakrishna Lane, Bagbazar: Special puja, hom and music programme to mark Sri Sri Ramakrishna Deva’s birth anniversary.
QUIZ
March 5 at The Space Circle: Adverb presents Showbiz - The 4th edition, for three-member teams. Registrations start at 4pm. Quiz starts at 4.30pm. Entry fees: Rs 300 per team. Prizes for top three teams. QM: Biswabijoy Sen.
FLOWER ARRANGEMENT
March 5 at Indo Japan Welfare & Cultural Association, 18/4 Ballygunge Circular Road; 10am - 11.45am & 1pm - 2.45pm: The live Ikebana demonstration will be given by Kazuko Nigam, an expert Ikebana teacher ahiling from the prestigious Wafu Ikebana School of Japan. Call 24753773 to register.
MEET
March 5 at Terrace Garden of Prabir (Pulak) Choudhury, 135/1, Rajdanga Main Road, 9831021096; 6.30pm: A rendezvous with Chaitali Dasgupta, an iconic media personality, to celebrate the launch of her autobiography, Chaitali Keya Katha, and adda with Raja Dasgupta, Mamata Shankar, Purnima Ghosh, Avery Chourey, Saswati Guhathakurta, Tapan Raychaudhuri, Sudeshna Roy, Pankaj Saha, Birsa Dasgupta, Bidipta Chakraborty, Rohini Ray Chaudhuri and others. Moderator: Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee.
INAUGURATION
March 6 at 8C Nakuleshwar Bhattacharjee Lane; 9.30am to 10.30am: Laying of foundation stone for expansion of existing temple of Lord Sree Guruvayurappan by the Hon’ble Governor of West Bengal, M.K. Narayanan. Organised by Sree Guruvayurappan Samajam,Calcutta.
SPORT
Till March 12 at CC&FC: Give in to the cricket fever with Royal Challenge presents The Telegraph Cup Cricket 2011 for corporates. Matches start at 5.30 pm.
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