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dogs, he would have joined the Company three years earlier.
He still has the torn pieces of the first questionnaire today.
Keenly interested in machines, he used to sharpen CTC
rollers in the lathe machine, be with engineers when they
dismantled and assembled the DG set to learn its
mechanism, and drive the tractor in the field to cut
Guatemala grass or plough the land during free hours when
he was an Assistant Manager at Dehing T.E.
On club days he used to play soccer and started learning golf
at Margherita Club. Being a shy person he was reluctant to
play tournaments as he was apt to lose too many balls.The
first golf tournament Sanjay played in was when
Mr Pushpajit (Dicky) Gill dragged him along. with the
passage of time golf became his passion. Today he is an
accomplished player who has won many laurels at numerous
golf tournaments.
Every evening, after coming back from the factory and also
on holidays he took up music and started playing the
guitar and singing. He and some fellow planter-
musicians came up with the idea of
forming a band which they named
The Planters’ Band, comprising
Manoj Gogoi as lead guitarist,
Mukesh Tandon as rhythm guitarist
and vocalist, Dr Raj Sharma as bass
guitarist, Prasenjit Chakraborty on
the drums, Parag Borah on the keyboard and
himself as a vocalist too. The band was successful
for quite a few years but had to break up because
of their transferable jobs.
A man of style, Sanjay tied the knot while he was at
Bukhial T.E. with the equally stylish and gorgeous Nandini
on 26 January 2004. Nandini is a professional working for
Jet Airways. He left Bukhial for unavoidable reasons but,
with his open mind and ever friendly nature, settled down
with ease at our Guwahati office with his base at the inland
Container Depot (iCD).
At iCD his work is basically mechanized which made him
come back to wheels again – from his roller skates’ wheel
size which had a 2 inch diameter he has now moved on to
the 5 ft diameter wheel of a reach stacker which can lift a
60 ton capacity container! Even at iCD he has not missed
the chance of driving all sorts of vehicles from forklifts,
trucks to trailers – which speaks volumes about his passion
for driving!
At home he does the maintenance work on the air
conditioners, washing machine, and all electrical
items/circuits. interestingly, he had dismantled his Yamaha
bike and re-assembled it and opened his Samsung Note 2
mobile thrice for repairs! He can solve the Rubik’s cube in
two minutes and his next target is to solve it within a
minute.
A dedicated family man, Sanjay is a loving father and
husband. At home, he spends time with his only child,
Jayana, playing games and music with her.
Sanjay loves to take up challenges, which has made his life
interesting, and believes that overcoming these is what
makes one’s life meaningful.
it was a pleasure to write about him and we wish him and
his family happiness always and success in
the pursuit of his many hobbies.
“A bundle of talent” is what describes Sanjay
Narayan Chowdhury – in short!
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