Mandar Mani - Office leisure trip.

A long awaited reward was finally awarded in the form of a trip to Mandar mani for the whole of SME team. Though I was asked to take my wife along.... but we preferred not to be exceptional. So I had to go alone, leaving my darling wife at home.



Coming back to the venue, its' a beach resort in Purba Medinipur district of South Bengal , one of the southern districts of West Bengal . It is almost 180km from Kolkata Airport on the Kolkata - Digha route and just 14km from Chaulkhola.

Mandarmani is one of Bengal’s recently developed tourist destination that lies close to ever-popular Digha and Shankarpur. With sun and surf, pristine sea beach and untrammeled silt coloured sand, this beach is slowly becoming popular among the tourists. Mandarmani boasts of a 13 km long motorable beach, probably the longest motorable beach road in India. On the beach you will undoubtedly get the chance to feel the divinity and tranquility, try to loll on the sand and listen to the waves crashing upon the shore, which surely drives away your bustling pressure.


We were a group of 15 colleaues, started at 3PM on Saturday(post office) and reached the hotel after 9PM. Though it takes 5 hours, our time was spoiled on haluting and some routing difficulty. Our effective stay at hotel there was hardly 18 hours, and we boarded back to our 20 seater luxury bus at aroud 3 PM on Sunday, thus reaching back home by 8PM. though max time was travelling, but then thats the most fun time when you are on picnic :-)

As max of colleagues were of same young age, we really had great time. We had a beach walk at 11PM night, then since early morning 6Am, we had real sea bath/swim. Full 3-4 hours of fun untill Sun forced us to shelter back to hotel for lunch. We booked the full hotel (8 rooms) as it was recently built medicore stadard hotel, we didn't had much complains for the stay. Yeah one thing that we shouldn't forget to mention is tha food. Delicious food (veg) was served to us.

Though there is nothing else than the great beach but overall it was fun fun and fun. So you can plan for just 1 day, and can take most of it.

Chat with.......

Often thought of discussing problems/worries/ways/ideas with someone to lead us to the position where we find comfort/happineww/solutions......... Seldom we realise that most healing person on earth is 'Self'.
When we are happy we first thank ourself but seldom we do when we have problems. We have many arround to put the Gun on shoulders and start the Blame Game. Half the problem gets settled if we start introspection and opt for silence over words. Once the game is started we loose the most precious - 'Valuale thoughts'. Our prejudised mind takes the front seat and starts planning the 'moves' than Love. We loose control and knowledge. Self justifing becomes the prime goal than pacifing the situation.
Seldom we blame self for the mess........
Loosing control is easy but its difficult to control the loss.