Shantiniketan, Durgapur and a Junior BHPian's rice ceremony Pawan aka Papabravo and I were sitting in a restaurant overlooking the beautiful Nohkalikai falls in Meghalaya and having momo.
The conversation between PapaBravo (PB) and BlackPearl (BP) -
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PB: Looking at his phone and casually asking BP, are you going to Arunasish's (lovecars21) son's rice ceremony? I just got the invitation
BP: Desperately looking at his whatsapp and scrolling through all the messages. No message from Arunasish! Scrolling up and down frantically again - My phone is not connected to network, Airtel service is horrible. Arunasish must have sent the message, it will reach as soon as I get network.
PB: (Taunting tone) Since you have moved out of Kolkata for a while now, he has forgotten you. And you guys celebrated his birthday in Kalpa last year! Still he forgot to invite you!
BP: This image came up in his mind
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The taunts continued for the rest of the day. I kept on restarting my phone every once in a while to check if it improved connectivity and if I got the message from Arunasish. Finally at 9:30 PM I got a message and the sigh of relief could be heard from quite a distance Arunasish had invited us and I did not waste any time to confirm our participation. It would be a 500+ km round trip from Kolkata and I did not want to miss out on the opportunity.
The event was on a weekday, so most of the Kolkata team-bhpians could not join. Since we were on vacation, it was not a problem. But we did not want to drive back to Kolkata in the night after the event. So we booked the Peerless hotel in Durgapur.
The plan was to start early and visit Shantiniketan as both Rajsri and I love the place. My parents-in-law had been planning to visit Durgapur for quite sometime as they had stayed there for a long time and wanted to visit their friends. They also joined us in our Thar. The drive to Shantiniketan was nothing special except for a rear tyre burst. It was my mistake as there had been a minor cut on the tyre two days back and I had neglected it. I should have replaced it and it was a bad oversight which could have turned nasty. We lost about 30 minutes in replacing the tyre with the stepney. We took the right from Panagarh towards Bolpur. The road was beautiful and it is one of my favourite roads. Though we were running late I still stopped to take a few pictures.
We reached Shantiniketan at 2 PM and went straight to "Barishaler Rannaghar", the restaurant where we had our lunch booked.
It will be an overstatement to call it a restaurant. It is more like a mud hut, but the food is fantastic.
"Posto bora"
Hilsa Fish
"Malpoa" as dessert
Last edited by BlackPearl : 31st March 2019 at 08:06.
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