I was born in Calcutta on 1st March 1933

I was born in Calcutta. Not Only myself-all of us, three  sisters and myself and my elder  brother, were born   in Medical College, Calcutta. My father Late Ashutosh Samadder who had been satisfied with the minimum he could get, left his ancestral village, Purapara, Bhanga Thana, Faridpur (at  present Bangladesh) and came to Calcutta in about 1918  (by a back  calculation)  for his elder brother, Matilal Samadder, was reluctant to pay fees for his Matriculation Examination. who asked him to look after the landed property , they had,  along with him. He was then studying in a village of one of his married elder sister's father-in-laws house  in different village because in Purapara there was no High School.  From that position he rose to a  height of being an Accountant in a Mercantile  Farm of Hardware Materials , owned by an European, namely, Spence Ltd. (Head office was at Convent Road, Moulali, later shifted to Ganesh Chandra Avenue).Though he was not able, financially, to sit for Matriculation Examination, he , by dint of his labour, learnt English, Mathematics and Accountancy . I heard that he studied in the gas  light of the streets and read news papers to learn English. He served in various positions in different offices and ultimately came in contact with an European, Mr. Barbar of British origin, who was pleased to take my father in his  office in a suitable post and there after he became chief accountant in the farm.  by his qualities, efficiency and honesty rose to the position. He served the company till his retirement in 1966 at the age of 66 due to some heart disease. He was advised to retire by my elder brother-in-law, a Heart  Specialist, Late Dr.Ranjit Kumar Chakraborty serving as R.P. in R.G.Kar Medical College at that time.

In my life I had only seen one of   father's elder sister (Pisima in Bengali), called by my father Chordi in whose father-in-laws house he was reading in school and the widow of my uncle (elder brother of my father),  Probably, sometimes after few years of my father's marriage, Matilal Samadder died leaving his family  consisting of four members, the widow, two sons and a daughter. The widow and his two sons and one unmarried daughter.
 To my maternal side I had seen the widow maternal grand mother, with a maternal uncle and an unmarried maternal aunt.. My maternal grand father too died keeping his family consisting of widow wife, one son and one unmarried  daughter.They lived in Kaulibera, Faridpur, at present Bangladesh.
These two families came to Calcutta after partition in 1947 and lived with us on my father's income.  My maternal grand father working as a priest and did not have much property to maintain their livelihood.