Oh Calcutta

(continued from previous post dated 9th Dec)
The romance of nostalgia kept coming back to me through her
words, her interests....She asked me on the phone if I'd been to the
famed Coffee House - the hallowed portals of Bengali intelligentsia.


kband - sorry M, shei soubhagyo aamar hoyni. jodio college street
onekbaar gechchi, tobu kokhono adda marbar sujog hoyni. heard
that the old-world charm is not there anymore, maybe calcutta
has lost its sheen as the intellectual capital...but that manna dey
song "coffee house-er addata aaj aar nei..." perhaps can give a
picture of what it was like during its heydays in the 60s and 70s....



lea - Dhett teri ! tumi-o jaoni ? aami to bhabchilem(mail-er subject
ta dekhe) je aar hoyto coffee house jete hobe na, tomar mail podei
shei onubhuti ta hoye jaabe. jak tobu bhalo ei ekta jinish-e tomake
maat dite parlam, na hole tumi to calcutta-r shob special jinish
guloi jaano aar ami kichchu janina :-) bhabchi ek baar ghure ashbo,
pore janina shujog hobe kina ? manna dey-r gaanta shunechi go,
bhishon bhalo laage. shei jonnei to aaro beshi kore jete chai.



kband - I don't know why your mails came so late - both recd
around 7.30 PM. I was beginning to get worried about you and
others....unless you mailed me, I just couldn't find out anything.
How'z ur fiance's father now? I should not have said such a thing
that I did that day..and don't you ever fight with anybody again,
otherwise I'll be forced to join ranks against you:-)
Whoever has told you to digest my profile, don't you have anything
better to chew on? I'm not as fit and athletic as I like to be, or
probably what I was when I was 27, and I've started putting on
weight at the inappropriate places. I was beginning to get
motivated to do some early-morning jogging in an effort to get
back into my "profile" before I went to Calcutta, but then....
You are responsible for nothing, M. Please banish such dark
thoughts from your mind coz it would always trouble your
conscience. There must've been some pent-up feelings which
needed some release, so after you've let it pass everything can
be normal once again. Like my mobile, which has got charged up
today (sent you an SMS, did you receive?), so Cheers!
Did you know we had shila-brishti today? Managed to pick up some
of them and felt them melt into the hands...these kind of pleasures
are beyond compare...you must be thinking I've become senile or
something! Tomorrow there's a Griho-probesh nemontonno and
shall be away most of the day. Do write back and let me know about
your encounter with the dentist:-)



lea - Uff, ei hoyeche jaala, tomar mail na ashle amaar chinta bade,
and vica versa :-)) jak baba, tomar mail-gulo peye mone shosti
pelam, jaano kal shondhe obdhi khoob koshto pachchilam, tar por
hothat tomar sms-ta peye gelam. Ki bolbo tomake, ki je bhalo laglo
....theek tomar oi shila brishti-r moto!!
dentist-er kotha bhebe eke to tension-e chilam, theek shei shomoy
tomar sms.........ki mone holo jaano.........jeno khoob ador kore keu
likheche jaate aami bhoy na payi...jore heshe felechilam ota pode,
tomake theek bojhate parbona.........ekta dhonnobad chada aar kichu
bolte parchina uttore. baakita tumi bujhe niyo.
achcha baba achcha aami karur shonge jhogda korbona....shudhu
tomar shonge korbo theek ache to :-)) My fiance's father is much
better now, thanks for asking. oh so many more things are coming
out ofthe closet........now its ur fitness level which is phoney !!! u
better shape up ok ? And as far as coming to calcutta and.............
whatever u left blank....sheta dekha jaabe. amaar-i jokhon shob
daye (tumi to kotobaar bolecho shob dosh-i amaar), tokhon etao
amaar-i opor thaak na ? let me not confuse u further...somehow i
have a feeling u understood me.
jao grihoprobesh-e enjoy kore asho....i mean okhane tomar chokher
khide -ta mitbe hoyto(peter khide to tomar nei bollei hoi ;-))well, if
u r senile, so am i, shekhanei to amaader meel. u know i have done
the same thing so many times. when i went to US, and saw snow for
the first time in my life, i had taken a ball of snow in my hands and
felt it melt.........i know exactly how u would have felt. in fact one of
my friends in india had asked me to make a snow ball, and throw it,
on his behalf, coz he had never seen it snow, and i did it for him. so
who's the crazy one around?
the dentist was very sweet (na tomar moto noy, so dont be jealous).
onek golpo folpo jude dilo amaake thanda korar jonno. aami to kede
kete ekakkar. tar por comopunder amaake dater shopno topno niye
ki shob bollo, he told me he had dreamt abt a big tooth chasing him
etc etc. chotto bachchader oshob golpo shonale hashe, aami
hashchilam, shobai hashchilo hehehehehe !!! aar baba re more than
the root canal, it were 2 lizards which scared the hell out of me, they
were running around on the wall, playing with each other and my
life too !!! o god !
aaj tahole ei porjontoi.......ke jaane hoyto abaar bikele tomake
birokto korbo (otuku odhikar to amaar achei). aar ekta kotha.....
kolkata ashar aage amaake kintu janio (aar kichchu jiggesh koro na),
tar por dekha jaabe. tata.....M.......(aar ekbaar chotto khuki bolo to,
khoob bhalo laage).



kband - bishom khelaam aar ki!! sarakkhon jodi ekjon yaad korte
thake, tobey er cheye bhalo aar kichchu jutbey naki?:-)) now don't
take this seriously, you know better than that, perhaps you can
take it with a pinch of salt. add some lassi to it which would help
you to cool down coz i know that temp has been rising over the
weekend ! let's look forward to a 'fatafati' week, and till i pack my
boss off to honolulu, you keep listening to this song
"...bondhur telephone-ey mon boshey na
jaanlar grill-ta te thekai matha
money hoi baba jeno bolchchey aamai
aai khuku aai, aai khuku aai...."



lea - Oh, tahole bishom tishom kheyecho ? khabei to, shotti shotti-i
to aami sarakkhon yaad korte thaki ! aboshsho tomar onno shokhi
rao yaad kore nishchoi (shob amaar shotin) tumi shiggir tomar boss
ke tadao, tar por fatafati ekta mail koro to, ek dom tomar typical
mirch masala style-e heheheh !!ei amaake khuku bolcho, tomake
baba bolbo naaki ebaar theke ;-)) amaake dakcho tumi ? ashbo
naaki dilli ?
Khuki.....


(to be continued)