Wednesday 4 July 2012

So the University was founded on the 4th of July and yesterday they had the foundation day and convocation for the graduating students.  The Minister of Education, and Mamata Banerjee, who's the Chief Minister of West Bengal was there.  Banerjee is like the Governor of the state, and she's famous for ousting the Communists out of power a couple of years ago, so it was cool to see her.  So you can see how big of a deal the Ramakrishna Mission is here, there's over 91 million people in West Bengal, and they can get the Chief Minister to come to some convocation.  But pretty much the entire the program, except for a little at the beginning and bits and pieces here and there, was in Bengali, so everyone was clapping and laughing and stuff at parts, and I had no idea what was going on.

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