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A montage of our beloved Ajit da who just recently left all of us. He'll be there with us forever, in our memories. These rare photos of Ajit da is provided by Dr Ashok Ghosh (Via Arnab Bhattacharjee). our sincere thanks to them for sharing these with us.
Well, it is beginning of a new era as till last year, Bishnu da was secretary, we used to hand it over to him, Mridul da standing beside with an evergreen smile and feeling of more success than our collective effort, all izz well. This time around, as we knew, the guards have changed. The legendary soul of Bishnu da is resting in peace, and in come srimat Swami Suparnananda maharaj, aka Satya da. The position of Mridul da has been captured by Tapan da. He hasn't changed a lot, just white became "gerua", and some black beards got white. Still he amazingly keeps unshaven beards only 1 cm long.
Ok more "tipponi"s coming later, lets narrate the actual happenings now.Bela 3 ter samay pouchechilo Anirudhha, Kaushik D, Barik P, Dipankar B, Dhruba. 3:30 ter samay pouchechi myself and Niloy. Utsab Roychowdhury reached within 10 minutes after we reached, ar Saswata came within 10 minutes of Utsab reaching. So that was the full brigade. Jathariti start e office e corridor e bose ektu gultani hochhilo, world cup messi maradona villa spain ityadi. Barik non-Utsab check gulote "payable to" er jayga gulo bhorti korlo jegulo lekha chilo na. Itimadhye tapan agasse Satya da ke niye hajir holen ebang amader office er 2nd floor e deke niye gelen. Sekhane table e bose first e check gulo tally kora holo with bank name, check number etc. Total melano holo, division split-up kore official letter gulo te bosano holo.
After appreciating us about our contribution, Satya da stressed on a fact about being anonymous donor, and not asking about where exactly the money is spend, which got us confused a little bit. But I think later we realised that (hopefully) the whole picture is not exactly clear to him as he was not very well aware of this till last year. Ani clarified that the school amount is going to the computer related development, and Tapan da acknowledged promptly. Satya da handed us one issue of "Narendrapur Samachar" where he has written a piece about civillization, child education, importance etc, and tried to relate to his Indian Culture classes back to the time when we were students. Dipankar and Barik mukh chawachawi korlo, amra sobar mukh chawachawi korlam, tarpor amader 2 to kore mishti, 2 to(naki 1 ta?) rosogolla , 1 ta patties (which Maity asked if it was chicken paties as he is veg) ar cha diyechilo, seta kheye fellam. Amader kaaj korte bollen. Ani and Dhyams did put the trust issue in , and from Satya da and Tapan da's response, it seems that they are interested abt making us a trust, with trustee members etc. Ani asked that if we can get a 10-15 minute slotduring this year school re-union to promote /let-people-know about our contributions over the year, and encourage other batches to do so, collectively as batch. not only as individuals.
The mood changed slowly as Dhruba asked about how is Nilachal da, then it moved to Nikhil da's age calculation and how is Arun da. Byas, tarpor eker por ek sobar arun da's kache mar khaoar galpo aste laglo..Dhyams du din bar udom mar kheyeche..kibhabe kheyeche sei story vividly narrate korlo, and Ashoke da along with every one of us, laughed like hell, so much so that tears came out of his eye, he has to remove his glasses to wipe it. Pradip dar haate maar khaoa, study hall e jhimano, wimbledon er samay khelar math e natok kore hospital e bhorti haoa, Ranjit da'r horrible stunts and eccentric behaviors, Paritosh da's jokher-dhon type attitude with history marks and how it has been changed, teacher-students match at teahcer's day and how it has lost its glory, who-else along with Ramkumar Upadhyay and Sudama Rai(Oh Yah..) has gone back to their homeland, we had it all coming out of the bottle like a champagne-fountain. Ashoke da not only enjoyed the flow, but also contributed a lot to the present state of these stories. Arun da is down with spondylitis. Santosh "fresh-up" will retire on 15th July. Paritosh da gives a lot of marks in history now-a-days. Mridul ta scared the hell out of Arup da by saying "khun-koira-fallamu" (narrated sweetly by Ashoke da). There is not enough teachers to make a team in Teacher-student match. These all stories came from Ashoke da. Finally when we left around 5:30 from his residence, we really felt joyful, so did he (school amount 1,55,000 and computer + printer related details and plans aptly narrated by Ani to him).
By Arnab Bhattacharjee
