I am starting a new series called “The Guest Speaks” and this will feature articles and writing from invited authors who would share their experience, opinion, thoughts and world views in the areas of society, politics, personal growth, people, books, films, significant social issues, men and women, gender, psychology, sociology and the larger human context. In this series, I am happy to Present Ashok Malhotra on his first guest post – The Myth Do let me know if you would like to have your writing published in the “Guest Speaks”? Please contact me and I would get back to you. I look forward to your comments and thoughts. Happy reading.
Author: Sarbari
My Stories – lost and found!
Today, I would like to share with you little stories of my life and my experience. The one that I am going to share with you today is still etched in my memory as a significant event. Do let me have your thoughts and similar experience, if any. When I was six or seven years old, I lived in Kolkata with my aunt and my cousin. My mother had passed away by then and I was living with my aunt. My cousin was older than me, in fact she was even older than my mother; and she naturally did not treat me like a sister, but more like a little girl who was a few years older than her own son. During Puja, those days, Kolkata had pandals (kind of temporary decorative structure in a religious context) which were not as fancy and as artful as they are today, but were quite large. Alongside the puja, the area around the pandal
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