Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, New Barrackpore (contd-1)

Gradually, the 2nd post of each Department was filled up with the following persons, English -Damodar De, History-Chandra Mukherjee, Bengali-Amiya Krishna RoyChoudhury, Economics- Mrinal Chandra Sengupta, Political Science-Nakshatra Bhushan Dutta, Mathematics-Chitta Ranjan Sengupta
Philosophy-Jagadish Goswami and Science stream was also started with the following persons; Physics-B.N.Paria, Chemistry- Murari Mohan Sen (Prof. P.K.Banerjee joined later and became senior most in Chem dept. as Pro. Murari Sen discontinued), Zoology-Dhilan Ray, Botany-Pratima Nag, Electronics- Syed Rafi Ahmed etc.
Principal - Bhupendra Chandra Chakrabarty 
( English) was also appointed.
The new building was opened for regular functioning by Prof. Humayun Kabir, Minister in Charge of the Dept. of Education.
At the beginning of my career I used to put on pure Bengalee dress, Dhuti and Panjabi. I had a by-cycle and I used to attain the College with this by-cycle.One day it so happened that my dhuti was stuck in the spokes of the cycle and I had to come home immediately with the help of a Rickshaw. From that day I began putting on Pant and shirt when I wanted to ride on the bicycle.
One day I met Amiya Kumar Rao, my classmate in post graduate classes. He was serving at that time in Gobardanga Hindu College at Gobardanga. He asked me to come to coffee house on Wednesday, Usually, some of the professors of different colleges and Universities met in the coffee house on every Wednesday . Henceforth, I too, began going to Coffee house on every Wednesday. There, we  used to occupy a round table and we would take our seats round the table. The system of taking coffee and fish fry was in the system of "his his whose whose".
One day we decided to go to Darjeeling in summer vacation.

It was settled that during this summer vacation (1961) we would go to Darjeeling. Actually , we went to Darjeeling for an excursion. This was my second excursion in my life and the first excursion in my career. My  first excursion, in my life, I had in Digha after my Matriculation examination in 1951 with some of my local friends of Shankaritola Street, Cal-14.. It was too much amazing not only because  that was my first excursion but also this was the first time I saw a sea, a vast range of water  which  I still remember and just before reaching the sea beach we heard a tremendous sound of the breaks of the waves of the sea.