![]() Due to his extra ordinary quality and ability he was closely associated to the Dy. Though there was strict rule to issue one book at a time to a member but Kali Shaw issued me two books at a time one in my name and another in his name.īN Gupta popularly known as Bhola Babu was an efficient and wise man. I got a golden opportunity to read books free of cost. The library contained a large collection of books of different subjects and categories. A statue of The Goddess of learning was installed in the ground floor every year on the eve of Basant Panchmi and the students of the locality used to worship her with sheer love, respect and enthusiasm. There was a big library known as Vani Mandir in the first floor and my class friend Kali Shaw was the librarian. Those were the days when such books were available for merely Rs.2/3 or so. I used to read mostly detective books and as such I wanted to become captain Hamid one of the famous characters in the detective books of Ibne Safi B.A. Those days in 1958 when I was merely 13 years old and I was reading in class IX in Gobindpur High School. But curiosity compelled me to know where he went so early in the morning alone. I very often noticed and found his bed was vacant, only was covered with pillows properly with long bed sheet thereon. I never minded. I kept watch on my uncle and his movement and whereabouts. So we utilized the ground for our purposes. Football play in the evening is considered the most appropriate time. We preferred to play that day/date in the evening. We were well aware of the information, the dates, the days and the time too when our seniors didn’t play in the evening. GFC was known to one and all for excellent performance in the football maches in the district and the state as well. There was a very good football ground in Gobindpur, my village and the senior players used to play and practice every evening. People believed so.Įarly in the morning we used to leave our beds and left for the field to play football. It was well known to everybody once the body was bound with the mantra, no ghost could harm, couldn’t touch even. But a time came when that mystery was broken into pieces and everyone came to know that he had learnt some mantras to bind his body with it before approaching the ghostly areas. How he became so courageous was a mystery. My uncle Gouri Shankar was a very dare devil person to go even to the places where ghosts were living with their family for a pretty long time more than five hundred years or so. ![]() ![]() Story from Childhood – Gouri Shankar, My Uncle And The Ghost ![]()
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