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Silver Edge Silver Edge The Support Elders Newsletter SILVER A bi-monthly round-up SILVER of the events, stories, learning & more at Support Elders. EDGEVol.EDGE 4 • Issue 5 • November 2020 SEPL EVENT MD SPEAK Members Mesmerize Dear Readers, with Eclectic Fare Happy Dussehra and Shubho Bijoya to all of you! This will It is amazing how our members possibly be the first bijoya came together in strength to when we won't find ourselves participate in our first digitally busy meeting family and held annual day celebrations on friends but sending greetings October 1. So did our chairman, Ms I. Sen from the safe confines of our Ms Deepanwita Chattopadhyay, own homes. who joined us from Hyderabad As we accept and adjust to the with an inspirational welcome address. Our members sang, new normal, we were happy Ms S. Bhowmick Ms S. Dasgupta to celebrate our annual meet recited and even acted in a digitally on October 1, 2020. fascinatingly eclectic cultural It was heartwarming to see event. the joy and enthusiasm and Besides this, the theatre group the talented performances. 'Bishargo', put up a satirical Ms N. Dasgupta Ms B. Chattopadhyay Although I am very glad that street play, Kouto (Box), followed this digital edition of our by a mesmerizing programme: annual celebration was such Yesterday's Legends, Today's Stars. an enormous success, I do This was a journey down the Na Jaane Kis Jahan Mein Kho hope to meet all of you in memory lane of music, presented Gaye. person next year. Till then, by interdisciplinary artist, Sujoy For a change of pace, we turned let us take one day at a Prosad Chatterjee, along with to member Ms R. Mitra to capture time, armed with masks and vocalist, Debmalya Chattopadhyay. the romance of the moonlit sanitisers. Our members stole our hearts, night in Aaj Jyotsna Raate In response to the growing with Ms I. Sen's captivating Shawbai Gaychhay Bonay. This demand for our services, I rendition of Rajanikanta Sen's enchanting programme was feel blessed to announce the Jekhanay Shay Doyal Aamar, wrapped up with an audio play opening of yet another regional followed by Ms B. Chattopadhyay's on the most beautiful and yet the office—this time in Behala. moving recitation of Rabindranath most tormented woman in our Kudos to all of us! It would not Tagore's Tora Shunishni Taar Payer mythology, Draupadi, caught in have been possible without the Dhwoni in Bengali and English. Our the ignominy of her polyandrous efforts and blessings of the member, Ms N. Dasgupta, brought relationship. Written and entire Support Elders family. to us poet Subrata Pal's touching presented by our member, Hope you enjoy this edition imagery of the goddess Durga in Ms S. Dasgupta, Draupadi asks of our newsletter. Check out her many avatars in Tomar Durga Aami Kaar (Whom Do I Belong To?), the last page and let us know while our member, Ms S. Bhowmik, the eternal question about the which clubs you would like to turned to Hindi for her soulful Tum objectification of women. join! Do write to us with your stories, poems, feedback and suggestions. SEPL Events Happy reading! October 9: Rising Baul singer, Dipannita Apratim Chattopadhyay Acharya, enthralled us with her passionate rendition of baul songs and explained their significance and those of the instruments that Bengal's wandering minstrels use. October 16: Our member, Dr I. Sarkar, gave us an erudite talk on a seismological study of the Garhwal-Kumaon Himalayas—'The Dance of Shiva'. 24 X 7 Info Line: +91-33-6638 8888 Email: [email protected] Vol. 4 • Issue 5 • November 2020 2 Member Medley DOWN MEMORY LANE to the playground and bring them Roy family, who spent a restless A Tiger for Tea back home safely. night. The morning brought relief. The evening outing was the The tiger had gone home. The aaya Our member, Ms S. Roy, has daily routine in every family. The could go home too. taken us to many interesting children would play around the Though this was treated as a rare destinations that she has lived in dam and the help would sit in the incident, the locals said that tigers as a child, travelling as she did adjoining park by the river and were known to make house calls. with her father, a railways officer, chit chat or knit, especially during There were hunters in the area who got posted to charming the winters. It was a relaxing time too, who would hunt tigers as a places. This time our member for all and the children had fun. On hobby. Hunting wild animals was takes us to Paksey by the Padma one such evening, after bringing not a criminal offence then. for a wild encounter! Read on. the children home, Ms Roy's help Ms Roy remembers her neighbour, bid goodbye and left for the day. “Bagchi uncle” to all the children, Paksey, in 1945, was a small town She was waiting outside for her who was a hunter. He would in Ishwardi, in district Pabna, son to escort her home, as it was go into the forest and wait in a under the Rajshahi Division of getting dark, when something machaan (a platform hidden in the Dhaka. Our member, Ms S. Roy, unimaginable happened. branches of trees, where hunters went to live there, courtesy her Ms Roy’s mother had closed the waited for their prey). One night, father, a railway officer, who front door after the aaya had after a long and fruitless wait, got transferred to Paksey, an gone out and was about to start he came down to stretch his important railway divisional town making her evening tea when legs, with his gun resting against in Bangladesh. there was a shrill scream outside the tree trunk. Suddenly, there The town is on the bank of the and loud banging on the door. As was a crackle of dry leaves and Padma and their bungalow her mother hurriedly opened the in an instant a tiger appeared sprawled over a few bighas on door, the aaya and her son almost right before him. He grabbed his the bank. The river was not visible pushed her aside and ran into the gun and before the beast could from their house though because room. They shut the door behind spring on him, he shot it. Though of the huge dam that had been them with a bang. wounded, the tiger did not give up and went for Mr Bagchi’s leg, constructed to prevent the bank They were pale with fear and dragging him for a few metres from being further eroded by the could not utter a word. Surprised, before succumbing to its injury. mighty Padma. What it did to the her mother kept urging them to It was left to the villagers to take river did not worry the children tell her what had happened, but the hunter to the nearest hospital. much. They loved the dam, which they could respond only after Mr Bagchi was unable to get back was their playground every a while. Still trembling, one of on his feet for several months. As evening. them pointed a finger towards for Ms Roy, who heard the story, the gate. Through the window, The Paksey railway station was the terrifying memory still gives they saw a full-grown tiger sitting located just before the famous her the shivers. Hardinge Bridge, a 1.8-kilometre just in front of their gate, outside steel structure, considered a the garden. It was quite some technological feat in those days. distance from the house but the (As narrated by our member to The bridge was named after Lord sight of a tiger resting at one's Ms Mousumi Gupta) Hardinge, the Viceroy of India, for gate, possibly after having had those were the days of the Raj. water from the Padma, terrified Locally, however, it was known as the family. the Sara bridge then, as it stood Everyone waited with bated near the Sara crossing, connecting breath for the tiger to get up and Dhaka and Khulna. This famous go back to the nearby forest but bridge made communications it showed no inclination to easier between Calcutta and East move. It budged not an Bengal (now Bangladesh) and inch. The aaya stayed Assam. back that night after It was customary for railway having dinner with the officers to have aayas to look after their children. Though Ms Roy's mother did not like the idea of having hired hands raising her, she chose to call a lady in the evening, just to take her children Vol. 4 • Issue 5 • November 2020 3 Member Medley BREAKING BARRIERS Taki Bonhomie: Where Bengal Immerses Partition Pain Taki, on the banks of the Ichamati river, the international border between India and Bangladesh, is not just a historic place but a picturesque one as well. Our member, Ms A. Raychaudhuri, has her roots there. Her family and that of Mr Raychaudhuri's were zamindars of the region. Though she was raised in Delhi, she has vivid memories of Taki to which she was a frequent visitor till 2014. As a child, Ms A Raychaudhuri lived very close to the Ichhamati. Along with her cousins, she would often run up to the riverbank to look at Images courtesy: Mita Basu the other shore, the border of Bangladesh, then East Pakistan. Spotting boats with Pakistani and Indian flags was a lot of fun wave to each other, exchange up in the sky and form the words and jumping on to opaar Bangla greetings, with deafening shouts 'Durga Puja', followed by the year! (as East Pakistan was referred of "aaschche bochor abar hobe!", Plenty of sweets were made to post partition) boats to go a promise to meet the following and bought.
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