Anamika

       Shantiniketan was pleased to hear my words. He told me that till then I might hide some stories from him. I told him, "why did you say this?'He replied that he knew everything about me. Then I told him to tell my secret stories. I saw a mysterious smile on his face. He said if I didn't mind then he might proceed. I told him," go on '.

       Actually, Shantiniketan was Omni present there. So it was possible for him to know everything about me. At first, he told me that I had many boyfriends there.

I replied," no-no this is wrong.: The real thing was that in my college life many youths wanted to be my friends. I didn't know hearing my words why he became so upset. Then he told me that I was a liar. I said," no-no really I am telling fact.

But he didn't believe me. He started to give several examples of my boyfriends.

       One of them was Mr. Neil Rath. He saw that we both were wandering there and talking with each other very frequently. I told him that we were only familiar with each other. He said, "okay.' then he again started that one day he saw me with another young man. I replied to him that, he was a newcomer. He wanted to visit different places in Santiniketan. Therefore I had been going with him only to help, nothing else. In this way he tried to convince me that whomever he saw with me they were my boyfriend but I wanted to understand him that not a single one among them was my boyfriend. But he didn't want to believe me. So I became angry with him and left the place. Sometimes these types of events were very common in our life. A few days passed. We both remained silent.

       One day my husband noticed this and asked me what happened to me. Why do I look so pale? That day I told my husband everything about Shantiniketan, about our friendship, etc. He solaced me saying not to worry.

Everything would be all right. At last, Santiniketan came to me. We shook hands with each other and our friendship was as usual.

        Now Santiniketan was very much conscious while talking with me. He began to talk with me about my favourite topics. He suggested, let us talk about our visiting places. 

        I described my Kalimpong tour with my schoolmates and my teachers. He told me not to repeat the same topic. So this time I started to describe my Andaman tour with my family. That was my first experience to go by an aeroplane. our family and the family of my father's friend decided to go to Port Blair. We had a morning flight from Dumdum airport. We had to stay there at night to catch a morning flight. We spent the whole night seeing the landing. and of the lifting of flights there. After checking, we were on board at 6:30 am. We reached there at 8:30 am. we had our breakfast on the plane.

      My father arranged our food and lodging there. We visited Ross island, the tribal museum, etc there. We saw a hidden tunnel made at the time of the second world war. We also visited the cellular jail. Santiniketan seemed to be happy to listen to my travel story. He was very excited to hear another travel story from me. We said goodbye to each other. The next day we sat side by side. I started my trip to Siridi Sai.