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'Bangaler Chharachhori': Memories of another day in limericks

India Blooms News Service | | Feb 08, 2016, at 11:19 pm

#Bangaler Chharachhori # Kolkata # Ajoy Gupta

Kolkata, Feb 8 (IBNS) Ajoy Gupta's book of Bengali limericks, 'Bangaler Chharachhori', about his days in East Pakistan, was launched at Kolkata's Oxford book store recently in the presence of noted Indian footballer and former Sheriff of Kolkata, Chuni Goswami, and journalist-author Shankarlal Bhattacharjee.

Earlier, in pre-partition Bengal, the residents of East Bengal (later East Pakistan and now Bangladesh), were often referred to as 'bangal'.

The book narrates the story of a refugee displaced by the partition of Bengal.

Gupta reminisces about the time spent in East Pakistan but the emotional account is steeped in humour peppered with typical 'bangal' accents and intonations.

At the inauguration, Goswami reminded everyone that though he was a 'bangal', he spent his days as a footballer wholly devoted to one club, Mohun Bagan, which incidentally happened to be the club of the 'ghoti' (the name given to the people of west Bengal).

Reporting by Anusree Ghosh

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