The students of Asutosh College and the like would frequent for endless cups of tea, lip smoking snacks and most important... long sessions "adda" customers were mostly students and young people, dreams in their eyes, poetry books in their pockets and loads and loads of topics for continued discussions accompanied by tea at 3 paise and toast at 4 paise. Dibyendu Palit, Manas Roychoudhry, Somnath Bhattacharya, Ajoy Roychoudhury ... all renowned later for their contributions in the field of literature, education and medicine ... coming to Bijoli Grill for their quota of "adda", literary discussions and the customary cups of Debu Barick’s tea.
Bijoli Grill became a formidable brand in food and catering to some of the most recalled celebrities by now ... Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Zakir Hussain, Jyoti Basu, Mithun Charaborty, Aparna Sen, the Indian and West Indies Cricket team ... the list is endless. Bijoli Grill today caters simultaneously to 22-25 marriages in an evening.
--Sudipta Bhowmick
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