23-02-2023, 09:55 AM
Soma did not send Antu to college today. After Santu's exams are over, they will go to Nico Park together. After the bath, Soma stood in front of the mirror. Santu-Antu are ready at that time.
Soma was standing in front of the mirror looking deeply. She rarely sees herself this way. She was observing herself deeply today. Opened the cupboard and saw rows and rows of linen, zardousi, loom, tangail, tasar silk, kanthastitch, katan, baluchari sarees. The sarees were bought by Soma at various times as a hobby, and remain in the cupboard. When going out to college, most of the time they wear just tant or sometimes cotton silk. So Subir jokingly says---is it for the brides of your two sons who have accumulated so many sarees?
Soma remembered Subir's words. Really thought, she already reached the age of forty. If not now, when will she wear it? What is the possibility that their wives will wear sarees when Santu-Antu grows up?
Of course, Soma didn't understand whether Soma felt like that suddenly or for some reason. Instead, today she want make up a little. Out of all of them sarees, she chose the ghee colored Kantha stitch saree. She bought it from Santinektan for the Poush festival by Subir's choice. The saree has lovely flower leaf stitch on ghee color all over. A black blouse will go well with it.
Today she thought about the inner cover of the blouse. She wore a black bra. Although she mostly wears white brassiere. Today suddenly she wants something new.
While she putting on the saree in front of the mirror after wearing the petticoat-blouse, she noticed a little belly fat of her. But it has increased a little.
Put soft lipstick on her lips. As she usually does. Wore a pearl necklace on her neck and set with ear tubs.
They got into the car exactly at ten o'clock. Their family car is small. The boys had already climbed into the back seat and occupied the space. Dawa Sherpa said---If you don't mind madam, you can come to the front seat.
When Subir drives the car, Soma sits next to Subir in the front seat. Without any hesitation, she sat next to Dawa in the front seat. After the car started moving, Soma smelled a strong manly sweat from Dawa's body. Perhaps the smell was strong, yet very masculine, Soma began to have a strange feeling.
At the beginning of her marriage, Subir's posting was in Kolkata. When Subir came home from office, Subir smelled like this. Soma, ever the cleanliness freak, scolded Subir and sent him to take a quick bath, but secretly she felt better. The body odor of Dawa Sherpa is stronger than that. To be so close to him today, she feels.
They waited on that lonely pond till the Santu's examination was over. Santu's exam will end at 11 am. Antu was throwing a stone into the pond to test how far he could throw the stone. Dawa Sherpa and Soma were watching him sitting not far away.
Antu went a little closer to the pond then Soma warned---Don't go too close to the pond, Antu.
But Antu was still busy throwing rocks near the pond.
Then Dawa said----Choto babu, don't go too far. There are crocodiles.
Antu is a student of class six, he knows there are no crocodiles in the pond. Moreover, not in Kolkata. But Dawa's manner of speaking was such that he was a little nervous.
Then Antu came near and said---Dawa uncle crocodile in the pond! Is it possible? I am not stupid.
Dawa Sherpa said---Well, little boy, don't have crocodiles, there can be snakes! Do you know how many big snakes we have in the mountains?
Antu said in surprise---so you are talking about Python or Boa?
---Bigger than that.
Antu said in surprise---Anaconda? It lives in the only Amazon rain forest.
---Bigger.
Antu looked at his mom and said---Mom, are there snakes on earth bigger than Anaconda?
Soma laughed and said---who knows, maybe your Dawa uncle knows that only.
Dawa Sherpa said---Madam, you don't believe it? There are really big snakes in our mountains. I can show you if you want.
Soma is still smiling, Dawa is not a literate person, so he has no idea about Anaconda. He might be exaggerating about a mountain python.
Seeing Soma laughing, Dawa fell silent. Soma said---Dawa ji, Antu is right. There is no snake bigger than anaconda in this world.
Dawa smiled and said---Madam, I will show you a real bigger mountain snake one day.
Soma said---No don't. I am very afraid of snakes.
Antu said---Dawa uncle, show me then.
Dawa Sherpa said---No no choto babu, not you. If your mom doesn't believe me, I will show her.
Saying this, Dawa gave a strange smile. Soma, however, did not understand the meaning of this smile.
They entered Nicopark around 11:30 to after finish Santu's exam. A Gorkha friend of Dawa works as a gatekeeper. When he saw Dawa, he came forward and said---Dawa bhaiya, you?
Dawa is already very tall man. He smacking his short-looking Gorkha friend's shoulder and said---How are you, Gurung?
----Well, how are you bhaiya? Then the man named Gurung went to Dawa's ear and said-----Who are with you?
Dawa' friend Gurung said it in such a way that even Soma had no problem hearing it. Dawa said---The flat I guard is the owner's family.
Soma went ahead with her two sons. Dawa and his short height friend Gurung started talking for a while they both smoking bidis
Then Dawa came to them. Santu and Antu are fascinated by the big merry go round and various types of riders.
Dawa said---Choto babu will you like ride the merry go round?
Both jumped for joy. Then one after the other they rides in there merry go rounds, sky diver, aquatica. Dawa and Soma followed them with their bags.
They came in front of a huge merry go round. Dawa said---Madam ji, will you ride or not?
----No no. I am afraid about merry go round.
Besides, I'm not young enough to ride a merry-go-round.
----Madam how old are you?
Soma joked---Age of women should not be asked. Guess what.
Dawa laughed. He Said---Thirty four?
---Damn! I have been married for seventeen years.
---Then, thirty eight?
---A little more.
----forty
----Right.
---What an age it is madam. I am now fifty two. I still wrestle at fairs in Kalipokhri.
Soma laughed at the Dawa's wrestling passion. She said jokingly---You will once teach my husband how to wrestle.
----Wrestling is not for everyone, madam. Sab ji is an educated gentleman, he can't learn these things. This requires brute force and brutality.
Soma loughed and said---Are you such a brute person?
Dawa said in passionate voice---Brutalilty means no mercy where victory requires brutality. Besides, being strong is most important.
That's why Dawa lifted his short sleeve t-shirt to show his biceps.
Soma said with a smile---- Stay. No need to show your strength.
Dawa said---Madam, one day I will really ride you an merri go round. You will enjoy then.
----No, no, I see you are making fun of my fears in everything. Once you say that you will show me a huge snake, once you say that you will ride me on a merry go round. Tell me what's the matter?
The two started laughing like this throughout the day. They seem to have come closer today. Soma is an educated woman from an upper middle class urban Bengali family. But this insignificant low class watchman seems to be the closest person to her. She can roam like a free bird.
The day was not only good for Soma, but also for Santu-Antu. They returned around 7 pm.
Soma was thinking about herself while going to sleep that night. She never saw herself under the pressure of marriage, family, children. Whenever she felt alone, she felt helpless. She always wanted Subir. Today was the first day in her seventeen years conjugal life without Subir she enjoyed.
Once Subir often says "Soma, learn to understand your own happiness, we both are far away for both professons. Take care of yourself while handling family pressure. Learn to enjoy."
Soma did not pay attention to Subir's words that day. Today, at forty years old, she feels like she should have thought about the words. Many of Subir's office colleagues are his close friends. He can go to many places on office tour. Many colleagues have families in his quarters. Soma visits once or twice times in Subir's quarters, the neighbors colleague families are very affable. It is expected that Subir has many friends to spend free time with. But she?
She thought more, Dawa ji can be a low class watchman. Their social status doesn't match with Dawa Ji, But Soma feels that Dawa is very close to her now. She really like his intense masculine nature, heavy manly voice. She like to listen to stories of wild mountain life. Sometimes Soma thinks that she also desires such types of a man? Who will be such a man, will always be with her. Will talk with her, When she is tired of handling the pressures of family and teaching profession, he will make her laugh and help to forget the tension. Who would take her shopping, help handle the boys.
Subir has been far away since birth of Santu. Soma raised their two sons alone. Soma knows Subir does this a lot when he is at home. So she expect a lot from Subir. But there is laziness in Subir. At once the long, strong appearance of Dawa Sherpa suddenly flashed on Soma's eyes, a man of untiring wild Hardworkness. Soma get a different feeling of pleasure.
As soon as the thought came, Soma laughed alone. Turned on the bed switch and looked at the clock, twelve o ten. Both boys fell asleep long ago. She turned off the light and lay down on her side.
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Soma was standing in front of the mirror looking deeply. She rarely sees herself this way. She was observing herself deeply today. Opened the cupboard and saw rows and rows of linen, zardousi, loom, tangail, tasar silk, kanthastitch, katan, baluchari sarees. The sarees were bought by Soma at various times as a hobby, and remain in the cupboard. When going out to college, most of the time they wear just tant or sometimes cotton silk. So Subir jokingly says---is it for the brides of your two sons who have accumulated so many sarees?
Soma remembered Subir's words. Really thought, she already reached the age of forty. If not now, when will she wear it? What is the possibility that their wives will wear sarees when Santu-Antu grows up?
Of course, Soma didn't understand whether Soma felt like that suddenly or for some reason. Instead, today she want make up a little. Out of all of them sarees, she chose the ghee colored Kantha stitch saree. She bought it from Santinektan for the Poush festival by Subir's choice. The saree has lovely flower leaf stitch on ghee color all over. A black blouse will go well with it.
Today she thought about the inner cover of the blouse. She wore a black bra. Although she mostly wears white brassiere. Today suddenly she wants something new.
While she putting on the saree in front of the mirror after wearing the petticoat-blouse, she noticed a little belly fat of her. But it has increased a little.
Put soft lipstick on her lips. As she usually does. Wore a pearl necklace on her neck and set with ear tubs.
They got into the car exactly at ten o'clock. Their family car is small. The boys had already climbed into the back seat and occupied the space. Dawa Sherpa said---If you don't mind madam, you can come to the front seat.
When Subir drives the car, Soma sits next to Subir in the front seat. Without any hesitation, she sat next to Dawa in the front seat. After the car started moving, Soma smelled a strong manly sweat from Dawa's body. Perhaps the smell was strong, yet very masculine, Soma began to have a strange feeling.
At the beginning of her marriage, Subir's posting was in Kolkata. When Subir came home from office, Subir smelled like this. Soma, ever the cleanliness freak, scolded Subir and sent him to take a quick bath, but secretly she felt better. The body odor of Dawa Sherpa is stronger than that. To be so close to him today, she feels.
They waited on that lonely pond till the Santu's examination was over. Santu's exam will end at 11 am. Antu was throwing a stone into the pond to test how far he could throw the stone. Dawa Sherpa and Soma were watching him sitting not far away.
Antu went a little closer to the pond then Soma warned---Don't go too close to the pond, Antu.
But Antu was still busy throwing rocks near the pond.
Then Dawa said----Choto babu, don't go too far. There are crocodiles.
Antu is a student of class six, he knows there are no crocodiles in the pond. Moreover, not in Kolkata. But Dawa's manner of speaking was such that he was a little nervous.
Then Antu came near and said---Dawa uncle crocodile in the pond! Is it possible? I am not stupid.
Dawa Sherpa said---Well, little boy, don't have crocodiles, there can be snakes! Do you know how many big snakes we have in the mountains?
Antu said in surprise---so you are talking about Python or Boa?
---Bigger than that.
Antu said in surprise---Anaconda? It lives in the only Amazon rain forest.
---Bigger.
Antu looked at his mom and said---Mom, are there snakes on earth bigger than Anaconda?
Soma laughed and said---who knows, maybe your Dawa uncle knows that only.
Dawa Sherpa said---Madam, you don't believe it? There are really big snakes in our mountains. I can show you if you want.
Soma is still smiling, Dawa is not a literate person, so he has no idea about Anaconda. He might be exaggerating about a mountain python.
Seeing Soma laughing, Dawa fell silent. Soma said---Dawa ji, Antu is right. There is no snake bigger than anaconda in this world.
Dawa smiled and said---Madam, I will show you a real bigger mountain snake one day.
Soma said---No don't. I am very afraid of snakes.
Antu said---Dawa uncle, show me then.
Dawa Sherpa said---No no choto babu, not you. If your mom doesn't believe me, I will show her.
Saying this, Dawa gave a strange smile. Soma, however, did not understand the meaning of this smile.
They entered Nicopark around 11:30 to after finish Santu's exam. A Gorkha friend of Dawa works as a gatekeeper. When he saw Dawa, he came forward and said---Dawa bhaiya, you?
Dawa is already very tall man. He smacking his short-looking Gorkha friend's shoulder and said---How are you, Gurung?
----Well, how are you bhaiya? Then the man named Gurung went to Dawa's ear and said-----Who are with you?
Dawa' friend Gurung said it in such a way that even Soma had no problem hearing it. Dawa said---The flat I guard is the owner's family.
Soma went ahead with her two sons. Dawa and his short height friend Gurung started talking for a while they both smoking bidis
Then Dawa came to them. Santu and Antu are fascinated by the big merry go round and various types of riders.
Dawa said---Choto babu will you like ride the merry go round?
Both jumped for joy. Then one after the other they rides in there merry go rounds, sky diver, aquatica. Dawa and Soma followed them with their bags.
They came in front of a huge merry go round. Dawa said---Madam ji, will you ride or not?
----No no. I am afraid about merry go round.
Besides, I'm not young enough to ride a merry-go-round.
----Madam how old are you?
Soma joked---Age of women should not be asked. Guess what.
Dawa laughed. He Said---Thirty four?
---Damn! I have been married for seventeen years.
---Then, thirty eight?
---A little more.
----forty
----Right.
---What an age it is madam. I am now fifty two. I still wrestle at fairs in Kalipokhri.
Soma laughed at the Dawa's wrestling passion. She said jokingly---You will once teach my husband how to wrestle.
----Wrestling is not for everyone, madam. Sab ji is an educated gentleman, he can't learn these things. This requires brute force and brutality.
Soma loughed and said---Are you such a brute person?
Dawa said in passionate voice---Brutalilty means no mercy where victory requires brutality. Besides, being strong is most important.
That's why Dawa lifted his short sleeve t-shirt to show his biceps.
Soma said with a smile---- Stay. No need to show your strength.
Dawa said---Madam, one day I will really ride you an merri go round. You will enjoy then.
----No, no, I see you are making fun of my fears in everything. Once you say that you will show me a huge snake, once you say that you will ride me on a merry go round. Tell me what's the matter?
The two started laughing like this throughout the day. They seem to have come closer today. Soma is an educated woman from an upper middle class urban Bengali family. But this insignificant low class watchman seems to be the closest person to her. She can roam like a free bird.
The day was not only good for Soma, but also for Santu-Antu. They returned around 7 pm.
Soma was thinking about herself while going to sleep that night. She never saw herself under the pressure of marriage, family, children. Whenever she felt alone, she felt helpless. She always wanted Subir. Today was the first day in her seventeen years conjugal life without Subir she enjoyed.
Once Subir often says "Soma, learn to understand your own happiness, we both are far away for both professons. Take care of yourself while handling family pressure. Learn to enjoy."
Soma did not pay attention to Subir's words that day. Today, at forty years old, she feels like she should have thought about the words. Many of Subir's office colleagues are his close friends. He can go to many places on office tour. Many colleagues have families in his quarters. Soma visits once or twice times in Subir's quarters, the neighbors colleague families are very affable. It is expected that Subir has many friends to spend free time with. But she?
She thought more, Dawa ji can be a low class watchman. Their social status doesn't match with Dawa Ji, But Soma feels that Dawa is very close to her now. She really like his intense masculine nature, heavy manly voice. She like to listen to stories of wild mountain life. Sometimes Soma thinks that she also desires such types of a man? Who will be such a man, will always be with her. Will talk with her, When she is tired of handling the pressures of family and teaching profession, he will make her laugh and help to forget the tension. Who would take her shopping, help handle the boys.
Subir has been far away since birth of Santu. Soma raised their two sons alone. Soma knows Subir does this a lot when he is at home. So she expect a lot from Subir. But there is laziness in Subir. At once the long, strong appearance of Dawa Sherpa suddenly flashed on Soma's eyes, a man of untiring wild Hardworkness. Soma get a different feeling of pleasure.
As soon as the thought came, Soma laughed alone. Turned on the bed switch and looked at the clock, twelve o ten. Both boys fell asleep long ago. She turned off the light and lay down on her side.
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