Filed under: Behind the screen..., I~), Very strange!!, uuphh yeh life!!! — chapters @ 9:43 PM
Tomar jonyo pathaalaam,
Baganer sob phul
Akasher sob tara
Ramdhonur sob rong
Chokher sob swapno
Moner sob asha
Aar…
… Amaar onek bhalo basa.
I wrote these line atleast 20 times, in Bengali script, before finally writing them on the card, which I sent to I~) for his birth day. I can read Bengali. But it was the first time that I wrote a Kobita. I don’t know whther he liked it or not. The first thing he asked me was whether I copied it from somewhere !!!!!
Today is Asthami and most probably this is the first Durga Puja in which I~) is away from his home and Kolkata. And his MBA course is taking a toll on him. He had exams, assignment submissions… etc etc on those few days of Durga Puja. The day before panchami he was very upset. So I thought of taking pictures of all those Durga Puja Pendals and sending them the same. So on panchami, I left little earlier with 2 of my collegues. I walked from 6.30 PM to 10.30 PM and covered most of the famous pendals of Salt lake. I sent those pics to him so that he could atleast see this year’s Puja decortions. The next day the reply came… “These are the worst pics I have ever seen… you need to stand in a corner to take a pic of the pendal … and blah blah. You have put on so much weight… need to lose… blah blah…” !!!!
I have decided that I am not going to do anything for him now onwards. 
Filed under: I Love... — chapters @ 5:10 PM
This is my one of my favorite songs… Real Love by Massari. I had heard this song for the first time when I was doing my Engineering and one of my online friends had forwarded it to me. And that instant I fell in love with the the music, the lyrics… I just love everything about this song. And everyday I wake up with this song playing as the ringtone when my father calls up.
Yesterday, while I was just surfing the internet, I watched the video of this song on youtube and what to say… I loved it so much. Massari looks so handsome and how the whole story goes with the music!!! I had not imagined anything like this the video to be. I imagined something like the singer singing the song holding a mike with some smiling scenes of a beautiful girl thrown in between. But the video is so awesome… You should watch it and wait for the ending… It ends in a rather pleasant way… 
Filed under: Behind the screen..., Down the memory lane..., Friends... — chapters @ 2:13 PM
He came into my life when I was in ninth class and my life changed forever…. L N Sir; That’s what we called him. “Maa”, “Jhia” were some of the terms what he used to call me. He could not remember names. All he remembered were the mathematical formulae and science. Till then I was never into private tuitions. My parents used to teach me at home. But in class 8th, due to some reason, it was not possible for any of my parents to look after my studies. So that year, I scored badly in my final exams. I was really afraid of mathematics and science… so afraid that before exams I caught fever. I could not even finish the entire maths course… forget about revision. So the next year, I joined LN Sir’s group tuition. Another of my friends, Swa, was also going there. We were just 2 girls there in a group of 15/16 students. Swa’s twin brother, San, was also there and he used to be the only guy I knew and talked to.
There, I started to love Mathematics and Science. It was not that I was a poor student. But till then I was just studying to write in the exams. There I gained the knowledge; knowledge so that I can love a subject. LN Sir’s love for the subjects transferred to me… came almost swimming to me. That year I jumped from 8th place to 2nd place in school. I respected LN Sir more than anybody else. I had blind faith on him. And he valued that faith well.
LN Sir was a fair, short height (almost 5′2”), little plump person. He had diabetes… but his love for sweets could never restrict him from eating a piece or 2 sweetmeats. He was a scientist at RRL, Bhubaneswar. Everybody says scientists are mad. I had seen him doing funny things. Once he came to tuition wearing a scooter helmet on a bicycle. One day he forgot that he had not come on his scooter and started kicking the bicycle pedal to start it. He never remembered anybody’s name, as I have already mentioned.
We used to go for tuitions to a quarter in my colony where the quarter owner had rented it to Sir for his tuition classes. Rest of the time the owner used it. When we promoted to 10th class, many other students joined our tuition group. But at that time, the Quarter owner passed away in an accident. We needed to shift somewhere as it was 10th board exams. Our group had a girl, let’s call her Pal, at whose place the tuitions started again, but only for girls. Boys attended the tuitions somewhere else. We were about 9/10 girls then.
All of the students improved much in his tuition classes. And because of him, I also scored really well in my 10th Board exams. I headed for college to study science in +2, and then did my Engineering. Many years had passed since then. I am no more a student, I am working. I came across many teachers, both before and after him. I came to respect many of them and hate few of them. But whenever I remember the most remarkable teachers in my life then the first name that comes is his. He left his footmark on my life. My life definitely would have been something else if I were not to meet him.
Couple of years later, when one of my very good friends, came to me for a suggestion of a good teacher for her younger sister in high school, I could think of only one name. I sent her to LN Sir. I never imagined that Sir would ever remember me as every year he came across so many faces and apart from that he was not very good at remembering people. But I was overjoyed when I heard from my friend’s sister that, he not only remembered me, but also he could remember where I stay and my nick name too. He said her that I was one of the very good students he had taught. That single compliment made my whole life. I still cherish the memories of LN Sir. I don’t care much about what people think of me. But it matters a lot when the few people you respect the most actually praise you in front of others, that too years after your ways parted.
When I was still a student and was doing my Engineering, I came to know that LN Sir passed away. What shocked me more was the fact that he committed suicide. Well, I never knew anything about his personal life, but he was not a person who would commit suicide. I never got a chance to meet that wonderful person after 10th class. But he made me what I am today academically. I owe a lot to him for that. I know many of his students are successful today. And all of them surely remember him at some points of their lives. After all it not every day that miracle happens in your life. I can’t tell about others, but YES, he was a miracle for me. He left his mark there in my life when I was just a student, afraid of doing maths homework. And that mark will remain there forever.
On this Teacher’s Day, when I thought of writing my first ever teacher’s day blog-post, then none but LN Sir came into my mind. Happy Teacher’s Day LN Sir… I know, someday, when we meet again up there, you will still recognize me… I will wait for that. May your soul rests in peace.
