My uncle Debabrata Basu wrote a series of sketches, about his grandmother, his aunts and his mother.
Ordinary women – Extraordinary characters:
An introduction
The eight character sketches here are of people very close to me, I have
grown in the shade of their love and caring. Among them, six are daughters of Bose
bari, our household - these are my six aunts. Two were related by marriage – my
grandmother and my mother. To many, they are just ordinary people, but I saw
their extraordinary beauty. Not the external, but the internal. What I saw of
them in my mind, is what I have tried to express in these sketches. Those who
read these will also see them through my eyes, and hence see their extraordinary
beauty.
Now, many years of my life have gone by. In this long life, the shadows
of many women have fallen upon me; but the impact of these eight women on my mind,
on my life has been, I think, without parallel. None of these people are alive any
more. In the thirties, my fifth aunt passed away. And in the nineties, the last
among them - my mother - passed away. The sketches here are set in the world of
the twenties to the nineties of the twentieth century. The picture is partly sharp,
and partly hazy. Those who read this are my relatives or my friends. That is
why I can present this incoherent picture to them.
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