When we were young, we had heard from my father, and my uncle and aunts, that though we were now settled in India, we had originally come Basisal, which was a town in Bakarganj District of undivided India in Bengal. The name of our ancestral village was Batajore which, was and still is in the Sadar Division of Basisal District. We are a branch of the family of Babu Aswini Kumar Dutta, the great social leader and freedom fighter of Basisal; founder of Brojo Mohon School and Brojo Mohon College in the late nineteenth century, in memo of his illustrious father who was a judge in the Munsif court in Krishnagar. Their portion was in the Western side of Batajore village; ours was located in the Eastern part.
In my mind's eye I would visualize the verdant lush countryside of our village with ponds tanks overflowing with succulent fish; freshly grown organic vegetables in our home kitchen garden paddy fields growing the famous Balam rice of Basisal and of course the famed Musur dal: the profusion of bream nut and coconut trees which are quite prized in Basisal, swaying in the breeze wafting from the Bay of Bengal.
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