Dad, retired from his
government services, in grand style!
But, it was more sad a news for
me, than, it was, actually, for him!!
Because, it simply meant, he
would always be there, round the corner, with his poisoned arrows of
criticism!!!
Tragic indeed!!!
Quite expectedly, he
turned to full time writing. To add up, he got to the editorial board
of half a dozen Bengali science magazines!!!
A science writer-editor,
my dad was literally, on cloud nine! He was touching his dreams,
what, if at sixty?
He was well a five-year old nagging over toys,
when it came to buying fish, at the market!! I guess every Bengali
father is, simply, too good, at that!!!
If you don't like fish,
you are anything but a Bengali! A Bengali's reaction to having a
great catch of "ilish", "bhetki", or "chingri",
at a reasonably cheap price, is simply orgasmic!!!
My dad, I bet, was
not that happy. even when he became a father!!!
"Maacher jhol
bhaat" is an instantaneous turn on for a Bengali, on any given
day! Bengalis and fishes are more intensely in love, than Romeo and
Juliet would ever have been!
To be continued.....
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