austraLasia #2280

Indian Old Boy hat-trick

KOLKATA: 19th October 2008 -- Indian cricketers might not be managing too many hat-tricks against the Australian world-champion side (couldn't help that!) but the Salesian Old Boys have managed a kind of hat-trick in international fame.  First a scientist working on the CERN Big Bang machine, then a Booker Prize novelist, and now the youngest ever president of the oldest Asian Press Club, the Calcutta Press Club.
    We have already run a story on the Souvik Das, the DB Calcutta boy who ended up in particle physics or whatever and was invited into the CERN project. Then it was the turn of DB Egmore's (Chennai) Aravind Adiga to win the 2008 Man Booker Prize with his 'White Tiger'.  Now we hear that DB Liluah past pupil, Shyamal Baran Roy, already 20 years with the Press Trust of India, has been appointed president of the Calcutta Press Club at 43 years of age - the youngest such appointment in the Club's 63 years of existence.
    Roy has led a distinguished career as a correspondent. Some of his scoops include a story on the plight of Skeleton Exporters of Kolkata, and the arrival of Hilary Clinton for Mother Teresa's funeral. His specific areas of interest are Peace, Conflict Resolution and inter-religious dialogue.
    Congratulations to the Indian Past Pupils!

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Title: australasia 2280
Subject and key words: S Asia Past Pupils
Date (year): 2008
ID: 2000-2099|2280