Friday, July 2, 2010

Memoirs of another day - A. Roy Mukherjee.

The other most exciting event of this period was the 1942 movement. We were then at Rampurhat, a small town in the Birbhum district. One day a procession was passing through the street in front of our house. I was standing at the gate of our house. Bhola Da, my father’s official orderly was also standing beside me. There were a number of Santhal adibashis joining the procession and shouting slogans. Suddenly a very tall and stout person from those people took me away on his shoulder and started dancing and chanting slogans. I enjoyed it very much. Bhola Da was running side by side and urging the person to leave me alone. The procession halted near the local Police Station. The agitation increased to a crescendo. Bhola Da, somehow, managed to take me away from that person and we came back home. But we could see everything clearly from our house, as the Police Station was not very far. However, nothing much happened that day and after sometime the procession passed peacefully.