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A Lesson Well Learnt

Apurba Kr Khound

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April 20, 2022
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I was a boarder of the First Mess, Cotton College during 1975-77.

It was in 1976 , when the usual evening ‘adda‘ was abruptly cut short by a telegram which had us crestfallen. It was a crisp line-‘ father serious, rush home‘. We didn’t know what to do nor did my close friend who instinctively knew that his father was no more ! We somehow spent the night huddled together in his room.

Early in the morning of the following day, we were at the Paltanbajar ASTC bus station, to see him off to Sibsagar.

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Despite his own state of mind, the friend whom we had come to see off, gave me a smile as if to say ” you deserved as much ” !!

But my ordeal was not to be over yet. The sobermost friend of the group took me aside and told me in a menacing voice that the old man was none other than Pandit Benudhar Sarma and that I should have extended due courtesy to him ! To salvage the situation, fast going out of my control, I hurried back to the bus to touch his feet making a vow in my mind never to be discourteous to any old man in life again. The broad smile and the warm hug he had given me are still fresh in my mind !

That one such chance encounter with a living legend was to become an once in a lifetime experience to treasure, I came to realize much later !!

On a lighter vein, I am fully armed now to face an eventuality of a similar kind having my legacy data ready in hand, thanks to the NRC updating process !!

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