He had to bring the dependents of his father-in-law's family and his elder brother's family consisting of 3 ( widow mother-in-law, one brother in law, passed Matriculation Examination and one sister-in-law, almost same in age with myself ) and 3 ( widow sister-in-law [ boudi, called as Bouthan ], two nephews ) persons respectively. He already made his only niece ( Bordi), Nirmala, married after the death of his brother . At that time we were residing in a rented house at 23/D Shankari Tola Street, Cal-14. in one room on 2nd floor with a kitchen on 3rd floor. The water tap was at ground floor and we had to bring water from there to our room and kitchen for our requirements in cooking and drinking. On 2nd floor there was a supply of water direct from the Ganges for toilet use only.
My father always resided in rented house in Central Calcutta bounded by Bowbazar Street, Dharmotala Street, Lower Circular Road and Wellington Street. Other than this house in Shankaritola Street I can remember without dates two other houses , one in Gokul Baral Street and the other in Mahendra Sircar Street.
Only my younger sister, Dalu (younger by 10 yrs ) was born in Shankaritola Street.My father fetched all of us to our native village, Purapara, probably in 1939 before WWII began and kept his family there upto 1942 before the birth of Dalu. who was born in 1943. My elder brother Kumudranjan was sent to one of his sister-in-laws house at Nagarkanda for studies after reaching there so that he did not lose any academic year.. My father arranged his family, my mother, elder sister, elder brother myself and one of my younger sister to live in Purapara.
We had four one storied Kutcha rooms with mud wall and tin at the top on all sides north, south east and west. The room in the west plinth was allotted for my aunt (Jyethima) and we were given to stay in the room on the north plinth. The rooms on the south and east plinths were store rooms for paddy. My father came back to Calcutta for attending his office. I stayed there for three years, one year in Purapara and two years in Kaulibera, my maternal uncle's house as there was no school, even a Primary one, in our village. I was shifted to my maternal uncle's house for being admitted in a primary school. But during this transfer I lost two academic years.
In 1942 my father again brought us ( my mother, my elder sister, myself and one younger sister excepting my elder brother who was reading in Kandarpara.,My mother, my elder sister, myself and the younger sister came to Calcutta to stay in 23/D Shankaritola Street, Cal-14.
