In Memory

Jayanta Dasgupta - Class Of 1966

Jayanta Dasgupta passed away on the morning of March 28th, 2015. More details are awaited.

info provided by Soumit Dutt '71

Jayanta Dasgupta was a registered member at this hoxa website. You can also view his profile from this page. 



 
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31/03/15 11:52 PM #1    

Soumit Dutt (1971)

I have been privileged to know him since I joined school Later his younger brother became my batchmate. Here was a complete gentleman. A man above pettiness and pomp. He worked quietly efficiently and diligently and set up a school. A school HOXANs can be proud of. It is the replica of John Moore's lovingly built SXH with the GSCE (Senior Cambridge) curriculum and world textbooks. A school where tuitions was discouraged.

He was the Peter Pan in Mike Doyle and Geoff Meagher's play as the lead character.  He had a beautiful voice that suited the musical which was a terrific hit, not only in Hazaribagh but through popular demand of parents, also at Calcutta where it was staged at the Kala Mandir auditorium.

I will remember eternally the welcome and the great adda sessions at his place on all topics under the sun without a thought to senior or junior. He was also instrumental in organizing the last HOXA picnic at Narendrapur in 2011 as also electing the outgoing HOXA Committee members of Calcutta chapter. Thank you Jayanta da.


02/04/15 12:13 PM #2    

Gautam Mukerjee (1966)

Jayanta was my classmate. Ratan Das, Ajit Ojha and self spent perhaps the happiest time of our Hazaribagh days at his house near the Airport. It was the Durga Puja break in 1966. We could not stay in school to study for the Senior Cambridge exams as the priests were having a Retreat. Ratan phoned me in Calcutta and said all our classmates were holed up in private homes in Hazaribagh, mugging away. Panic. We spoke to Jayanta and fixed up a stay in his family house near the Airport. That week was just FUN as we visited all our batchmates, ate great food, saw movies and ... obviously did no studies whatsoever.

Mohua is a school teacher and a great person. Jayanta and her story began at Dunlop -- its a colony around the factory on the outskirts of Calcutta, from where many came to study at SXH as boarders.

We met irregularly. The last meeting was an extended boozy lunch at Tolly Club around 3 years ago. It was a lovely gupshup session.

Jayanta was a thorough GENTLEMAN. Always did the RIGHT thing. He was everything the Australian Fathers brought us up to be. He followed Father John Moore's advice of taking the "Road Less Travelled" by quiting his Corporate cushy job and helped set up a wonderful school. John Moore would be proud of him as are all of us who knew him.

With Love and respect for his memory -- Gautam Mukerjee 1966.


19/07/18 12:12 AM #3    

Ashok Roy (1966)

Jayanta was my classmate, and we were very good friends. I loved him a lot. Although we did not see each other after leaving Hazaribagh, he has remained in my heart. Rest in peace, dear friend!

Dr. Ashok K. Roy, USA


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