The first time I saw the river Diana was in 1986, and after all these years, I still don't know for whom it was named. That Sunday, in 1986, we were four young and happy people on the river bank. My newly married husband held my hand and helped me descend to the river while his bachelor friends looked away discreetly. 'Mohan, the married man!' they must have been wanting to yell, like a character in V.S.Naipul's A House For Mr. Biswas, but they were too sweet to rib him in front of me.
Sandeep Ghosh was new in the Dooars, like me, but he and Saumitro Sen were old friends, as were Saumitro and Mohan, my husband. Soon we were all talking like old friends, that day at the riverside, and we all sang together in the car on our way back. The song, 'Yeh Dil Na Hota Bechaara' by Kishore Kumar.
The reason for singing that song : we had just started getting Doordarshan in the Dooars, and were happily looking forward to watching the film 'Jewel Theif ', which features the song, that night.
9 comments:
Memories are made of these....
The pictures are beautiful.
Lovely memories and pictures!
Kamini.
I remember the Diana as bone dry when we came... or is my memroy playing tricks?
Isnt it a flash-flood river?
What a wonderful story to go along with the photos. Lovely scenes.
beautiful....wow, i am envious of your memory power. awesome.
Much of this story is true.There are times when Diana runs amok. Like true Lady Di it did one day in 1987 by breaching the main road and on the rebound turned on the neighbouring tea garden. I cannot recollect the Tea Garden name though .
Saumitro
Lovely photos (as usual) and effortless and unassuming narration!
Was a pleasure to read this one!
charming snippet - looking forward to when you will collect them all in a book :)
Nostalgia turns into a story with Gowri, always a beautiful one. Keep that pen .... these day would say keypad on....
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