Evening delight: Games, snacks and Tambola

KOLKATA: With mouth-watering food, adda, games and music this monsoon evening couldn't have got better for the residents of Nilkamal Abason in Kestopur on Friday. People turned out in hordes for the Times Evening programme organised by The Times of India.
The evening's programmes kicked off with a cooking competition, in which 15 women of the complex participated.For the gourmets as well as the participants, it was a culinary delight. Asked to prepare delicious vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes, the women came up with some some mouth-watering dishes. Vandana Nagar came out as the winner for her exquisitely delicious corn potato nuggets. Lipi Sinha won the second price for Chinese Prawn and Gita Guha for preparing a koi fish cooked in a succulent gravy.
Next came the sit-and-draw competition, in which children of all ages lower KG to primary school participated. The children were divided into three groups and were asked to draw something of their liking. Aishi Dutta and Sagnik Dey from the lower KG group were declared winners.
Things started warming up with the Antakshari competition in which 24 residents of the complex, divided into six groups of four each, participated. The competition turned out to be an engrossing one.
Next it was up to the Bangla band Sankramon to set the stage on fire and get the residents grooving to their music. The band belted out some popular Bengali and Hindi items.
The evening ended with the interesting and exciting Times Tambola. Charu Khanna won in the Jaldi Five section. In the first row, Mala Sengupta and Abhi Bhattacharya were the winners and Ahish Sharma won the full house section.
Debi Prasad Pathak, the chairman of the Nilkamal Flatowners' Association advisory committee, thanked The Times of India for organising such a wonderful programme. "Our sincere thanks to The Times of India for putting together such an engrossing evening's programme. We are also grateful to TOI for putting up eight glosigns here. We are inviting The Times of India to organise another such lovely programme later in this year," he said.
This year, the complex's puja will be organised mainly by the women. The residents have also set up a library recently for the community.