Calcutta By Night was started by Partha Sadhan Bose who was a well-known rallyist, a true lover of motor sports and a collector & restorer of vintage cars. His son, Deborshi Sadhan Bose popularly known as ‘Billy’ is carrying the family legacy forward. He has restarted the event and has committed to make it into an annual motor sports affair.
Over the past couple of years, Calcutta By Night has gradually developed into a ‘much-looked-forward-to-event’ in the city’s motor sports calendar year being one of the few night rallies. Along with challenges for both driver and navigator, this event also promotes ‘Safe Drive, Safe Night’ with the main focus of passing on the message that our ‘City of Joy’ is a safe city.
The main objective of this event also focuses on promoting motor sports in the Corporate’ and ‘Social Club category along with the traditional Expert, Amateur, Novice, Ladies and Couple categories. This year, there was a special category for Sister Nivedita University, one of the patrons of this event. A total of 46 teams took part in this event making it one of the biggest TSD car rallies of the eastern region.
The team of Souradeep Dutta and Ibrahim Ali Shaikh emerged overall winners of the Calcutta By Night 2025. The team of Aniruddha Sk. & Alivia and the husband-wife duo of Sk. Ajgar Ali and Rehana Ali Sk. finished second and third respectively separated by only 5 penalty points. The team of Amit Kumar Saha and Suvrajit Dutta secured the fourth position; while the duo of Subhodev Chatterjee and Saptarshi Basu rounded up the top five positions in the overall ranking. The event spread across two night legs proved to be mighty exciting leaving all the competitors at the edge of their seats.
Deborshi Sadhan ‘Billy’ Bose said, “EMSAA remains committed to promote motorsports in Bengal by breaking the belief that one needs totally modified cars, by breaking the belief that motorsports is always dangerous. We commit to give our next door neighbour a chance to prove their capability as a driver or navigator in the true spirit of motorsports and assure to do more events in different formats. EMSAA strives to put back Bengal as the home of motor sports as to what it used to be.”
Photographs courtesy: Ranadip Mandal
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