Mission Impossible - Poland

Mission Impossible – Poland.        

Preface :- 

This is a story that was narrated to only to our family friends, just a few days ago, 

This particular story was in fact much conceived much earlier in my mind, although narration-wise it is the first of the lot to our family friends. 

However while narrating to her the story the episode of concluding the last chapter here indeed was somehow not at all disclosed to them at all.

Rest all are narrated to them in detail, since all these are true. 

Please note that all the characters and incidents are just real in this story, although the exact time, actual names of all the people involved in this - are of course marginally changed, just for the sake of avoiding any further troubles that perhaps might come up in future. However please note that all these since have happened. In fact, please also note that all the locations, geographical facts & relevant data or details, social facts & figures, all are totally true. 

These are neither at all imaginary, nor are at all far from reality too. 

In fact this is not just a story as it reflects the actual diary of certain incidents, in a vivid manner.

JUST A LITTLE BIT OF REQUEST :-

My earnest and sincere request to all the girls, rather all the voracious women readers - please do not just ask any questions to me at the end of the episode, since the ending, perhaps will under the normal circumstance, appear to be somewhat too abrupt, that is, too unethical. Please forgive me, it is NOT at all so, as this is what had happened since. Thus it is just not possible for me to elaborate this ending, just by way of dragging it at all any further beyond what is written here. 

Please note that in those days we did not have any Google to search for, in the seventies or eighties. However let me convey my gratitude to the authorities of Google & Bing, as for helping me for picking up several data & pictures for me to complete this.

Let me, however, hope that all of you will like the story & thus it will achieve the desired objective too.

P. K. Sarkar.

Mumbai, India.

April 08, 2022.. 

 

Mission Impossible – Poland. 

This is a story as narrated to our family friends in this year 2022 just a few days ago.

Preface to the overall incidents.

Please note that as already stated in the previous page, this is not at all a simple story for the sake of just storytelling to others. In fact all these since have happened in reality in the actual life. Incidentally however please also note that all the locations as later described, all the geographical facts & relevant details, social facts & figures, are totally true. These are neither at all imaginary, nor are at all fictitious either. In other words only all the characters & incidents as stated hereinafter are just real in this story, although the exact time, actual names of all the people and specific locations involved in this are of course somewhat changed, just for the sake of avoiding any further troubles, which perhaps might come up in future.

ACTUAL DIARY OF INCIDENTS.

Please note we have not so far described the details of the location in respect of the localities and other places of significant interest. We will be soon doing that in a reasonable detail with proper geography of the overall places. With that the main item of the story will get started simultaneously too..

To start narrating this entire episode of interesting activities, please note that most of the incidents, (excepting the extreme last, which is the apparent ultimate shocking event in the entire episode), have all happened in the same year as well the next two years , i.e., starting in July 1971, i.e., European Summer, in or around Russia, Poland & England. Thus let us start, for the sake of ease in such comprehending, a diary of events time-wise, i.e., starting in July 1971. There are several separate incidents that comprise the entire episode. Although each of these different incidents had started differently & separately at different places independent of the other, surprisingly all these near the end of the day, are clustered together. They do not have apparently any social relation of any bondage whatsoever within the other team members prior to such a meeting, although circumstances pulled each of them towards the other in a super interesting manner.

Please incidentally also note that for the sake of convenience of narrating the entire episode, we will keep changing from one Team to another Team and thus keep shuffling it, for the sake of maintaining the diary of events time-wise as far as possible precise.

However in order to start it, let us get ourselves a little familiar with geography of the place.

Place :-

To start the story, it is the in the famous holiday Camping Ground at a corner of the renowned city of St. Petersburg (erstwhile Leningrad) in the country of erstwhile USSR, present Russia. This ground indeed is so vast.

To comprehend the starting super critical moment of the heroine and the hero, to get attracted to each other, in what people call as “Love at first sight”, we have to get a few details of the geography of this place. The city is located at the junction points of two large water mass, namely the Gulf of Finland & Lake Ladoga. It is not at the confluence of any rivers at all. The camping ground is close and at a little height, i.e., altitude-wise compared to the water level of Lake Ladoga and for obvious reasons an ideal ground for anglers, i.e., people who love to sit for fishing with angling rods here, even for hours together at a stretch. Surprisingly, abundance of catch makes it attractive to such people too.

If any of the readers had never been to any of such camping grounds abroad, mainly in the Continent of Europe, for quenching their curiosity let me narrate that practically all infrastructural facilities are available absolutely in abundance. For instance, free access to the kitchen (suitable with modern amenities for parallel cooking for a few dozen food makers – men or women), access to the toilet, shower room for men & women, bath (for men & women) laundry room for clothes cleaning, drying including ironing the clothes, change room for the men & women. All these are equipped with all modern amenities. Most interestingly there are several lounges too, each with modern amenities of indoor games, TV with several channels with different languages - these are just a few. Even play grounds for the kids, even suitable for the teenagers are there too. Even a large amusement park is there for the kids and often for the adults too are included here. Some are also having tiny theatre halls with an auditorium suitable with a capacity for accommodation for few hundred as well. Payment is normally inclusive of all facilities lump sum. The difference from a posh cosy decent hotel is that here you have to stay within a tent and not a decent room of a hotel. The entire Camping Ground is normally well illuminated under strict security measures. The toilets, bath rooms, kitchen are constantly cleaned, disinfected and everything is under CC TV surveillance althrough. One has to in fact come here in order to watch, witness, enjoy in order to believe.

Another interesting thing is there. Most of such Camping Grounds has a large Food Corner, inclusive of a cafeteria, a pub and a decent restaurant suitable for families. The menu in the restaurants is mostly of the Russian taste, inclusive of Russian Caviar in abundance. Of course standard Western European meals are also available, like fried fish, steak, pie, fried potato, varieties of soups and to complement it, there is a galaxy of different sweet dishes, mostly ice creams. Mostly the entire food hub is suitable for the average European taste. An average full meal is not so costly at all and further another interesting point is for any transaction, there is a free bonus advantage for all the Western Europeans, if you can answer the bill payment in terms of European hard currency, for instance like the English Pound, German Mark or US Dollar. In short this is called a “Dollar Shop”. Nearly double the standard exchange rate they will give officially to you, often if not even higher rate, at ease. This concept of Dollar Shop is mostly applicable to all the shopping malls of the large cities, most posh hotels and decent camping Grounds. This is available all over this country, i.e. the-then USSR.

Time :-                                                                      

It is a clear bright afternoon, (rather evening as per the Indian Calendars), in July 1971. It is about a few minutes to nine. In this city as well as most cities in Northern Europe, for the info. of the general Indian Public, the evening in July starts around ten to ten thirty as per their standard geographical almanac. This is where the actual story starts, rather it makes its glorious euphemistic arrival. 

Characters:-      

They all say that “Ladies First”. Let us start thus with the heroine at first here.

So with that in mind, let me introduce the main female character of the story to start with. Her name is Elzvieta Geba, (the English version is Elisabeth, in short Liz or Lisa) a teenager seventeen year old very pretty tall girl with a well developed body, from Poland. She came here with her Father & Mom for a holiday and staying at the same camping ground. Her father is Mr Mikhail Geba, he is a veteran Civil servant in the Foreign Ministry of his country, i.e., Poland. Her Mother, Mrs Eva originally a German Jewish girl, had once absconded from one of the - then Nazi Concentration Camps, which was located in a border German town, very near the city of Dresden, mainly with the help of intimate friend Mr Mikhail Geba. Dresden is a town near the border of Poland. So after managing for absconding, they managed to cross over to Poland somehow, as it is another story of its own. Later they got married. Eva is well qualified as per the German academic standard and her qualification in fact is well acceptable in Poland with a lot of prestige. She is working and engaged as a school teacher. They live in the coastal city of Danzig (at present it is called as Gdansk).

The Baltic Sea is adjacent to the city in the North and interestingly their house is near the Baltic coast too. There are a few large cities in Poland and Gdansk is perhaps the second largest of the lot.

Eva’s original name was Ms Eva Kissinger and she had a desire to flee to USA. However, since all desires are not fulfilled, she now is reasonably happy as it appears, although she at the back of her mind is fostering that desire so far.

Since most educated European persons are conversant with at least three languages, they are no exceptions to that either. Elzvieta, in short Elz, is well conversant with Polish (as that is her home language), a reasonable bit of Russian (for strong Russian influence in most of the East European countries) and of course German from her Mom Eva. Mikhail is likewise familiar with all these languages and in addition to this, he is conversant with English, as this is essential for her official communication with all the Western European Countries. So is for Eva, as she is fluent with Polish, German (since she is also of German origin) and of course a bit of colloquial Russian too.

The first lot of characters are just over. Further a few additional characters will appear slowly as per requirement depending upon as to how the story progresses.

[ In fact it is possible to get the entire story split into two separate Chapters. These are :-

  CHAPTER - I. :- This comprises the overland journey from England to Russia. and the next         

  CHAPTER – II. :- At & return from Russia to England. ]

CHAPTER – I.

Here starts in the characters of this Chapter - I and to start with, this is the hero. He is too simple a person, an innocent Indian, hailing originally from West Bengal in India and he is presently working in England since over a couple of years. Although his skin complexion is much too fair as per the Indian average standards, still he is, when compared to an average European, he is noticeable as an Oriental. He is tall, well mannered, soft spoken, a decent personality too. His name is Dipak Ghosh.

He lives in Hatfield in Hertfordshire. He is a professionally well qualified Engineer, age around just 27+ and recently decided to have a few weeks’ holiday in the Continent. He is a well cultured person and have a flair for cultural activities, like literary poems (like poems of several poets in Bengali and of late in English), English fictions & drama. However he is recently getting interested to have a holiday to Russia. So after toying with so many compact local agencies for innumerable packages of holiday getaway programmes in Europe, this overland Camping Holiday package attracted him out of the lot. This is a company in the name of Hughes Overland, functioning from the little town of Billericay in Essex in England. He had a detail discussion with them and apparently felt comfortable, as the levy was not so high. The only headache is that food is not included in it, since it is the responsibility of the individual holiday makers. They also had suggested that he should carry reasonable hard currency in cash, in terms of U K Pounds or the U S Dollars, equivalent of a few hundred pounds, as that will immensely help him at so many points of shopping all over the countries in Eastern Europe.

GLIMPSES OF HIS CONTINENTAL HOLIDAY PROGRAMME:- Journey from England to Russia.

The team of 21 inclusive of the driver had started their journey a few days ago from Liverpool Street in London, at first they all came to South end and here they thus got the Air Ferry to fly over across the English Channel to the nearest airport Ostend in Belgium. Here starts their Continental extravanza.

Belgium :-

Holiday at Belgium was nothing so extraordinary for him at all, as he has since already been here for another holiday before, although in the team most of them had never been here even. It was already six in the afternoon, so they decided to have a mini-dinner and call it a day to relax in the Camping Ground. All of them went to the cafeteria associated with the Camping Ground & started discussing as to what to ask for. Dipak instead went to the counter and asked the bartender for a “Stella Artois”. To the utter astonishment of rest of all the others, he told, it is neither a girl nor a woman he is asking for. It is instead a strong lager beer, a local Belgium’s special. This, indeed amidst much of a laughter from rest all his fellow holiday makers, prompted most of them to ask for it too in a group, together with some snacks for nibbling. In this manner they somehow spent over an hour or two & later all of them left for the designated space in their Camping Ground, located the area, fixed up the tent, such that they are able to relax for the rest of the evening. Meanwhile their driver Peter Williams received his mini mini-bus & started making routine checking as appropriate. It was supposed to get delivered to him after proper servicing, filling up the tank with petrol of suitable octane qualities & oil. It is a large vehicle, suitable for all the passengers together with all their luggage, camping gears too.

Holland or Netherlands :-

After an initial day’s halt at Ostend they drove via Belgium (touching Brussels, Antwerp) reached Amsterdam, the city of canals. They halted at Amsterdam, had a trip to one World famous diamond polishing factory in Amsterdam. Interestingly of the diamond polishers, there were several workers, who are of Indian origin. This is the only one place, where one can play with the such diamonds in the entire globe. They call it costliest play ground in the entire World. The next such a place is perhaps South Africa. They, i.e., these people of Amsterdam do not produce or excavate any diamond. It is that they only just procure & polish it in order to make it marketable & attractive in the World Market. There are diamonds of various shapes or sizes, all are polished properly packed in an attractive casing and sold or disbursed to the rest of the World in the specific market. However here the security is far too tough at all such polishing centres, unimaginably it is tough. Dipak remembers the Tower Of London, where the British people has kept their single largest seize from India, i.e., the ”Kohinoor” diamond. Their Security belt over here is even tougher than that of these several polishing centres of Amsterdam.

Another interesting thing here is that the Amsterdam city has no post box at all ! How come it is ! One cannot locate a single post box even at any corner of the road in the town. Does it mean the people here in Amsterdam do not write letters to others and if they even do so, where do they post it ! The answer came late. The city has an internal transport system of trams, in addition to local city bus, taxi, private taxi & innumerable cars too. The interesting thing is that post box is there. In fact a galaxy of such post box is there. Only thing is that you have to be aware of it, as to where to get it. At the rear end of each of the tram cars, there is a post box stuck to it, with a simple sling & just a hook. The post men are there near so many corners of the road to come and clear the box in a normal fashion and then again the tram starts. This indeed is an extraordinary item of interest.

They wanted to explore this interesting city and had a mini voyage in one of the speed boats to cruise through the canals down town. Very interesting ! In fact there is a regular in-town ferry system here in this town for carrying passengers during the day and evening. However after a certain hour in the evening the system shuts down in a mass. Although they wanted to have a trip to Art Galleries, where valuable paintings from so many remarkable artists, e.g. Vincent Van Gogh & others, time is too limited for them to do so, for which they had to refrain from it.

However another interesting thing is the fish aquarium. They saw the Eel fish, which is one of the most dangerous marine animals, since it itself produces electric current for a hundred volts, no idea as to how ! Most of the marine animals cautiously avoid it, although humans like its taste. It is available here in abundance. Interesting !

Germany or Deutschland :-

Then via Hague, they all reached Hamburg in Germany and halted for another couple of days. To be just brief, whatever is said and done, Germany is Germany. It is still unparalleled in all facades of life all over the World. So let us not get into describing it in details. Meanwhile here practically all of them had a lot interesting life-time experience in the World famous Reeperbahn area by way of spending some time & lot of money too. However their Hamburg stay was over in another couple of days too.

Denmark :-

Afterwards they started via Puttgarten; proceeded after crossing over the sea through a ferry service, inclusive of the mini bus too, reached later Denmark and camped at the capital town of Copenhagen. Indeed it was another place for acquiring interesting experience. No wonder European people often had crowned this town as the pornographic Capital of Europe. Certainly there are reasons too for that.

 The Camping Ground here is located at the sea coast. It was around four in the afternoon & several couples inclusive of lots of topless girls dressed with just tiny knickers, (locally called as G-strings), for guarding their genitals, are so easily & comfortably loitering here & there. This is a scene, which is so rare in England, except in well guarded nudist club area. However there are plenty of interesting places in this town, live pornographic shows, museums for kids & three dimensional movie halls. Overall all of them liked this little country immensely too. 

Sweden :-

Later they left for Sweden via Goteborg, crossing the ferry across the Baltic Sea & reached their next local destination of Stockholm, via Malmo. What a contrast from Denmark when you come to Sweden. It is a country of extra-super affluent people. Spotlessly clean is the place, extremely law abiding well mannered crowd in the street. Even in the large Malls, there is no unnecessary flocking of customers at any corner, neither at the counter for payment either. This is a country of vast contrast as compared to other Scandinavian countries like Denmark even. None of them is a snob, although they are all extremely polite & gentle in manners, and further interestingly most of them indeed are real multi-millionaires. Crimes – the town is far from it. An interesting item is there for all to notice. Sweden like so many advanced countries are having cent per cent literacy ; still it is the only country outside the U.K. in Europe, where practically all people speak impeccable grammatically good English. Extremely surprising ! Another example of law abiding nature is that none of them will cross the road, except at the Zebra crossing and only when the signal indicates them to do so ! Indeed interesting !

The most prestigious prize in the World, i.e., Nobel Prize comes from here, this town of Stockholm in Sweden. From our Country several elite persons have so far won it, for instance the famous poet Rabindra Nath Tagore for his anthology of poems for songs in the name of Gitanjali, then the famous Scientist Sir C V Raman for his contribution in Physics. Interestingly another dedicated Englishman Doctor from Calcutta in the name of Dr Ronald Ross got this prestigious prize too, for his fantastic epoch-making discovery of Quinine, the sure medicine against Malaria. Quinine is a herbal medicine, the main ingredient for this is available from the leaves of one herb in the name of Cincona, a plant which is mostly available in abundance in India in the jungle of northern districts of West Bengal, like Darjeeling. At present at several other places it is getting cultivated in India and all the producing gardens, like most of the tea-gardens, are well protected in the interest of the quinine makers. In fact this medicine is not only consumed within India, but also sent to several other Countries abroad too.

In addition there are certain remarkable other items of interest here too. That is, from here several stalwarts had earlier decorated the Hollywood film kingdom in USA. For instance, the great film actress of yester years Ingrid Bergman, the famous director Mr Ingmar Bergman - are just to name a few. Another significant point, for your info., one can change his or her original citizenship and get a Nationality of several other countries of choice. For instance, some Indians living in the U.K. for over five years can apply for a British citizenship and perhaps will get it, surrendering Indian citizenship. However in Sweden it is not possible to get it so at all. For its super-strong diplomatic policies, to get a Swedish citizenship, one has to be either born here as a first choice or marry a local boy or a girl in order to acquire the coveted Swedish citizenship. A Swedish citizen will not require any visa for travelling to any country in the whole World. That is one Swedish boy or a girl can just walk in to India and stay for three months without a visa, however the vice-versa is not at all possible my dear ! For any Indian, we require approved proper visa to enter into Sweden. These systems of super strong diplomatic policies are incidentally available in another European country too. That is Switzerland.

The overall culture of this super affluent little country with such a super strong currency is utterly remarkable. That is to summarise why his overall experience is so impressive in respect of Sweden. However in spite of all these points, lakhs of Indians, mostly professional people live here & make a living since many years at a stretch.

From Sweden overnight journey to Finland.

Afterwards their programme was to proceed for Finland for which they had to board a ferry again at Uppsala and next early morning their ship inclusive of their car is supposed to reach Turku in Finland. Uppsala is world famous for their geo-technical Research Institute in the University & surprisingly a lot of Indian Research scholars, Engineers, Geo - Scientists & Technologists are working here.

However this stretch of overnight journey in the ferry is also an item of a life time experience. There is a time difference of one hour within Finland and Sweden. And also the journey is happening in the month of July when it is as per the Geographical Almanac, it is virtually bright for 24 hours in the Arctic Circle. The ship, in fact it was a large ship, that can accommodate comfortably within its massive holder at least 200 cars & vans as well as mini-bus too, in two tier floors, one above the other, plus all their passengers. Their journey started at about 9.00 PM as per the Swedish clock and it is supposed to reach Finland at about 5.00 AM as per the Finnish clock. There is in fact abundance of duty free cheap food & drinks in the second floor restaurant of this ship, as there is no cabin or arrangement for beds for any one at all. There is a loud music in the hall associated to the restaurant and boys & girls are engaged in dancing, although nothing obscene can take place here. Kissing one another is just a simple normal phenomenon, although hugging the other gender, caressing each other is permissible, within normal decency limits, as until someone else objects. Normally no one does so either. However for elderly passengers too with prior intimation, some beds are possible to arrange. There is a roof top deck, as someone who wants to run away from the loud music, can escape at the roof top and there is a galaxy of several dozens of deck chairs scattered all round. However mind you my friend, it is just no pleasure there either. That is, please remember this is close to the Arctic Circle and the ship makes interestingly a halt at midnight in the land of Finland, which is geographically just touching the Arctic Circle. So around 1.00 AM at the roof top deck of the ship, it is as bright as clear like our 8.00 AM in India. However this is what their logistic so far is and this is how it is functioning.

Incidentally so many interesting activities took place in the dance hall. Let us summarise a few of those here.

Around midnight in the ship, one middle-aged Finnish woman, reasonably well dressed too, amidst dance and loud music, came suddenly too close to Dipak and pulled him to the adjacent dancing floor for dancing. When the music stopped, she urged Dipak to get him a drink of her choice. Somehow Dipak agreed to it. After quickly gulping it, she asked for another. Dipak did that too. Dipak was wondering as to who this woman is, certainly not at all a vagrant, as her clean presentable attire is far too decent, as it appears. From her attire and the ornaments that she is having, it appears that she is from an Upper Class or Upper Middle Class society. She, with her pigeon English came too close to Dipak & kept murmuring, “It is not a drink, but a dream”. She, under the toxic effect of so much of alcohol, was telling him that her heart is full of love, provided if someone is there to accept it. She wanted, rather forced Dipak to touch her heart to feel it and in order for him to watch and feel it, she even started unfastening the buttons of her top blouse in presence of all and started for her bra then. Fortunately in the crowd, nobody was interested to watch them. This had put Dipak in too much of distress, he looked all round, in embarrassment. He noticed that at the drinks counter there is girl, a waitress, as she was just looking vacantly all round. Dipak by way of a whistle quickly drew her attn and thru’ a sign language requested her to come. She did so fast & later she somehow managed to let the woman lie down on the floor, behind one of the large sofa, as several such were scattered in the hall of dancing. Perhaps this waitress is familiar with such interesting incidents.

Dipak started thinking the possible reasons as to why this lady was behaving like that. Perhaps she got hurt in her mind due to someone or some incidents, someday or somehow and that is why she is frustrated so much.

Thinking like that he decided to leave the dance floor and went up the top deck for occupying a chair.

Finland :-

In this fashion they reached Finland at the desired schedule. To clear all the 200 vehicles, he thought it is a too herculean a task, although surprisingly, as all passengers have since boarded all of their respective vehicles, in advance, the last vehicle was cleared in about fifteen minutes after starting.

Finland is a nice little country and their next schedule for them was to enter Russia driving eastbound from Helsinki. Helsinki is the Capital town that hosted the Olympic Games in the year 1952 and all of them were guided for the camping ground, which is adjacent to this Olympic stadium. It was this year the Indian hockey squad received their Gold Medal at this Olympics. Glimpses of Finland are plenty and to summarise all these, this is getting extended far too much, so let us refrain from this. A nice girl from the Camping Ground Authorities, who speaks good English, escorted them to their desired location and explained of all the necessary amenities & location of large mall nearby their Camping Grounds, which can answer all their personal requirements. In fact it is she herself, as she agreed to escort them in their mini-bus to do a bit of the town, i.e., to take them all round the places of tourist interest and explain the local significance of each of such, inclusive of taking them to the mall for some shopping, mainly for food & other necessities. Next morning they left for the country of Russia.

Russia.

Oh dear to enter Russia, it is a tough, rather super tough an experience ! The Russians are too tough, extremely law oriented & law abiding people too. It is by Jove an experience. Another big hassle is their language deficiency, as most of them are staunch Russians and of course having no knowledge of the language of English. Somehow with German & a bit of French they struggled & later could manage it. However crossing a lot of such hassles they finally managed to enter the Russian soil, after spending four hours at a stretch at the border to get through their tough Security, immigration and Customs. So it is Russia at last.   

A few hours later, they entered the city, as it was called then, Leningrad and at present it is called as St. Petersburg. It is still the second largest city and has a lot of historical items to exhibit to the general public. It was already past five. Thus they decided to take a day’s rest and straight headed towards the Camping Ground. After reaching the Camping Ground, they noticed their area was marked since morning & an English speaking Intourist girl introduced herself as their official Guide. That is very interesting, since at all the previous places in the Camping Grounds, that they have so far stayed nowhere was such arrangement of pre- marking system, that they had come across.

CHAPTER – II.

The Intourist girl introduced herself as Masha, originally hailing from the one of the Southern States of USSR, namely Georgia. She is at present in the final year of her post graduate studies in the University of Moscow. Her subject is European History of recent and the mediaeval ages. Like so many other students of the University, she is working for a minimum of three to four months with “Intourist” as a Tourist Guide. Mostly the Intourist Authorities prefer such lot of students, since all of them are prepared to stay constantly with such overland holiday makers, who prefer to have a fun-filled holiday at a low minimum cost involvement. In fact surprisingly from Western Europe on an average nearly over a thousand such cars or vans full of holiday makers do come each year and thus Intourist is eager to accept such boys or girls at a reasonable low pay package for working with them. The students are happy at it too.

In fact Masha was also too much of a free mixing girl, as their society in their home town of Georgia is also reasonably free mixing & permissive too. She does not even bother to completely undress in order to change her dress in presence of other mates, i.e., other boys or the girls in her college hostel or here in the group. Although to most of the Western Europeans it is somewhat obscene, to them it is nothing so at all. It is just normal. In fact she even doesn’t even mind going fully naked, i.e., free style for open air basking in the large open roof top of the Camping Office. 

Her way of approach is far different, although interesting. She explains that out of several hundreds of the billions of people in the World, appr. Fifty per cent are male and rest fifty per cent are female. Physiologically the body shape & structure for all males are same and so it is for all the females too. There is thus nothing to hide or nor to be proud of in respect of that. If there is anything to hide for any one, it is the bad manners or qualities, telling lies, sin in the mind, greed, passion, criminal & dirty activities or items like that – for all these one is to be cursed by all others and he or she should feel sorry about that. Likewise, one can be proud of his or her personal approach, academic qualities, social qualities, sense of decency, friendliness, helping approach to others inclusive of the poor & needy people, habit of always telling the truth,, i.e., truthfulness, presence of mind, patriotism & several such good qualities are lot of items of virtue. All these are so ideal that nobody can say anything to the contrary amidst so many similar other items.

She announced that they have earmarked since a total of nine such spaces, in fact a maximum of ten, suitable for twin camping. That is, in each space a camp can be pegged, in which two persons can stay within. Their car or mini of a mini bus has a total of twenty persons and the driver. Of the passengers there are eleven boys and nine girls ; out of which nine of the boys are accompanied with their wives or girl friends. Only two boys like him, as the other one is a research scholar studying at Cambridge, he is single. One camping space is allotted for them. He is Austin Smyth from Tasmania. Austin so far is not utilising the camping facilities as althrough he spends in the van itself, like the driver. That is OK and acceptable, as so many of the people are accustomed to this. The toilet room is reasonably clean and nearby their allocated space.

Masha noticed the presence of an Indian amidst the team and thus she came much forwards and introduced herself to Dipak in person, although without any tinge of special liking or love at all. She started some idle talks with him and managed to exchange several item of “if’s and but’s” within themselves, within the next few minutes. 

Since Dipak however was planning to stay all alone, Masha requested him in order to enquire if he would mind allowing her to share his camp for the night too. It was so sudden and that too amidst all other friends. This put Dipak in terrible tight corner, since it was too embarrassing to him. He neither could accept, nor could he deny it either. Realising this dilemma, she in order to alleviate this sudden problem, suddenly announced that since the weather is so clear, she will spread her tiny bed at the veranda of the office floor instead, just in the open air for the night, of course with a shed over it.

Dipak however noticed that in the office of Camping facilities, there was a cupboard full of relevant angling staffs, which are required for fishing or angling. Since he is a member of the most renowned fish eating community of the Eastern India, he felt interested in enquiring the possibility of having an attempt for angling in the late afternoon, since they do not have any plans to go out anywhere else. He thus just murmured his desire to Masha and she at once accepted & supported him too. Then she spoke to the local Officer-in-charge for a proper permission as appropriate, as that is essential here. The permission was given and with the help of the Chief Chef, he prepared some mounds of wheat mix out of local bread and some other ingredients to prepare the bait suitable for angling. Of course plenty of earthworms were there too, although he did not have the essential gadgets to excavate these. Nevertheless, Masha escorted him to the spot and advised him to keep sitting there, strictly until nine as that is the closing hour too for going to the beach side of the Lake here. He should close all angling activities by nine to return to Camping Office. It is just about seven as per the local clock here. That will mean at least another two hours are there left for him.

So Dipak was all alone and started his favourite game rather hobby of angling at the specified space. While coming here, he managed to locate and get an old mug from the kitchen , with an idea to keep the catch, if any is since received, in it, Surprisingly there was an abundance of tiny fishes in the area and several such were caught in the next thirty minutes or so. Meanwhile several people, men & women, boys and girls crossed past him and went for swimming in the water and some of them even returned to the camping ground after completing their water sport as per their satisfaction too. Due to the fact so many such people are coming along the incline after their sport, the approach path, which is somewhat incline although not so steep, has become wet and somewhere it is slippery too. Meanwhile he received a few catches of medium size fish and he kept in the old mug, which was kept next to his seat. However as a matter of nostalgia he started remembering as to how was the game of angling done back home in his semi-village town near Calcutta in West Bengal in India. The float that he had utilised in India was from the feather, preferably that of a peacock. Here it is a plastic, mostly it is thermocole. In the evening back home in summer days, they sat by the pond in such a way, that they are able to get the desired catch. Often they caught of some fire flies and in order to stick those to the float in such a manner that the float is noticeable even from a distance. That is so, since in summer days most of the fish come near the surface, although other nuisance factors like that of mosquito, insects and even reptiles are there and one has to be super cautious against them, that too without a single element of sound even. All these came to his mind, while he was motionlessly watching his float in a constant fashion since the starting moments.

Suddenly he noticed that a tall very pretty girl, while coming up got somewhat out of balance & at the slippery path she slipped while climbing up and went dragging down slipping a bit. Later she again got up and re-started her attempt and at this instance too, she was equally unsuccessful in her attempts too. However at this attempt she was even out of balance & so much so, that Dipak quickly caught hold of her, prior of her falling, gave her an immense pull by way of a snatch. For this sudden pull, rather the jerk that she had received, the girl straightway came up to him, as if by way of flying and fell over him. Dipak could not resist such a sudden jerk of such an astonishing impact and he himself too fell on the luke warm & soft sandy floor, taking with the girl over his chest.

There were in fact not many people to come for an immediate rescue, since they were all reasonably away from the shore. The girl is lying motionless over the chest of Dipak’s and tiny little water drops have started falling from her lovely lot of loosened locks over to his body and his face too one after another. In fact so much so, even tiny water droplets have just started falling slowly from the tips of her two boobs through her bikini over to his shoulder one after the other. 

How interesting a scene it was ! Indeed there was not many an observer or a spectator to behold such a celestial epoch-making incident ! In fact Dipak started remembering that such a moment, whether you will call it glorious or disgusting. It has happened to him unexpectedly of course.

The scene is indeed far too difficult to conceive even in imagination. Several thousand of poets all over the World have so far written several poems in order for glorifying such a super celestial moment, although most of them have described just the breasts of a woman, instead of describing such a super-romantic scene of drops falling from the girl’s breast tips, to the extent he recalls. He, incidentally since has a flair for reading poems, has since read several English poems from English literature stock, as available from libraries for famous poets. For instance :- those of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Yates, Byron, Lord Tennyson and several others too.

In fact suddenly as a matter of great surprise Dipak remembers one of the very famous poems of the Nobel Laureate Poet Rabindranath Tagore’s, “Urvashi”, where the poet had uniquely described a very similar incident of pendant falling from the breast tips of this super pretty attractive dancing personality, who was the main source of attraction in the Royal dance hall of Lord Indra’s up in the Heaven. It was Urvashi, as she had glorified the overall dance hall of Lord Indra’s Royal Court Hall, up in the heaven. Some relevant few lines of the actual poem are described here for reference. At first the Poet has given an interesting introduction of Urvashi, in his own unparalleled style too.

QUOTE - 1 :-     

Neither a mother nor a daughter                                                              Nor even a wife in an earthly home                                                           O fair Urvashi                                                                               You are a denizen of heaven!.

UNQUOTE.

This is just the simple introduction of the super attractive dancing personality named Urvashi. Later the poet has also written further, as a matter of describing the remarkable incident, as follows :-      

QUOTE -2 :-                                                     

Like gems of your necklace Pendant on your breast                                               The stars fall                                                                                   The horizons are exposed bare                                                                  When you are careless with your dress                                                     And from your waist It suddenly slips.                                                            Like the dawn                                                                            That dawns on heaven's eastern mounts                                                      You have kept the world ever spellbound!                                                      Your slim beautiful body is washed by world's tears                                             and your feet its blood beautifies                                                            O you naked one with hair flowing free!                                                      The lust of this world is a lotus                                                                On it your feet you have lightly placed In the universal mind                                     You are the playful partner of its dreams.

UNQUOTE

So here the story starts and takes a new turn in their lives from this moment. It was indeed one of the real precious moments that normally come just once in a blue moon to anyone’s life. A critic can here make a lot of sarcastic criticism or stinky comments out of it, good or bad. The Occidentals will remember it with a glorious shy as to why such an unforgettable moment did not come to anyone’s life so far. However most of the Europeans will behave like a snob here, as to what is so great about it ! It can happen in one’s life many a time, if you go the beach for a swim or similar activities.

No idea how did it happen and only Omnipotence is aware as to why did He plan to do so. 

No wonder, since none of them had a sense of the “pros & cons” for the true incident, without a sense of its reasoning like why , how and the time too. Either of them kept staring at each other, as if they are watching each other with utter eagerness such that something they waited so far for ages to do so ; as if they are watching & staring at each other from a far away distance, perhaps they are watching each other from some far away different planets in the galaxy of the sky of the Universe..

There was no exchange of word, within any of them.                                                     All the coastal birds have apparently forgotten to fly across them.                                 Even all the tree leaves forgot to swing.                                                    The wind perhaps forgot to blow even crossing past them.                                        All creatures in the World apparently have decided to keep motionless for a while. 

The only item or a thing that was moving, is the Clock.

Slowly & gradually it was Dipak who came back to sense & asked her to get up. She came back to sense too, although slowly of course. He helped her to get up from this interesting position of hers. For obvious reasons, he spoke in English. From her expression & appearance in response, however, it appears that she did not get the gist of that. She in fact does not speak a word of English. She just uttered the word “Deutsch”. That is, German, it means, she can manage to converse in it.

Incidentally Dipak had spent prior to this vacation programme a few months in Germany near Koln, (English version is Cologne), as his Company had received a large order over here for a huge plant & machinery for special purpose machines & ancillary items, its value was a few million pounds as of then. As a matter of its pre-commissioning and commissioning activities, inclusive of technical check-ups, Dipak & a few others had to come here in Germany and thus he learnt the colloquial German language from the street and shops. However never could he dream even that his strength in this language will help him to establish or initiate such a new chapter of his life. The plant is commissioned since and all of them returned to England Office as per normal schedule.  

So softly he replied in German and requested her to slowly get up and stay fit near him. Surprisingly, she was not feeling uncomfortable at all, since she was lying over the chest of another new person, whom she never met, although not certain as to for how many minutes it was ! This conversation although slowly had thus somehow started. She introduces her name and told that she lives in Poland. It is here she is as her parents have come here for a holiday and she also decided to join them. All of them are in the same Camping Ground, where Dipak and his team are camping too. Dipak surprisingly noticed that the mug where he was putting all his catch got tumbled, due to the sudden impact from the girl and all the fish had escaped. So that is the end of her fishing extravanza, as it appears. So that is it. 

Although nothing that so serious, still some simple dialogues of courtesy just continued in between themselves. Dipak escorted him to their own tent and surprisingly noticed that it is virtually too near from his tent. Dipak’s group had a space allocated for nine tents and for obvious reasons, his tent was the last. However Elzvieta’s family had two tents ; one for her parents & the other tiny tent for herself. Fortunately her parents were also basking in the open with minimum attire, i.e., her father with just a vest & her Mom was with a bikini too. Elz took him close to her parents and introduced him to either of them. Mikhail was too polite and realising that he lives in England, spoke to him in impeccable English accent and requested to please take a seat. There were some plastic chairs with each of the tent for the residents’ requirements. Liz explained to her parents as to how Dipak had helped her and in turn either of them conveyed their sincere gratitude to him. However her Mom instead took a few minutes to get in the tent to change her bikini dress and put on a fresh proper European gown to come in front of the public. In this gap of a few minutes, Dipak quickly asked permission from them to allow for a few minutes too, went to his own tent and returned with a present to give them as a gift.

That was nothing but a bottle of Scotch whisky that Dipak had brought from England. In fact he is neither a teetotaller, nor a heavy boozer either. He just drinks mostly amidst his close friends & similar gatherings. That is why he has since carried a few bottles of Scotch. He was in fact told by several of his friends, that Scotch is an item which is not only liked, but also adored virtually all over the people in the Globe, who enjoy such hard drinks and people in the Eastern Europe is no exception to this formula either. So with due honour he gave this tiny little valuable gift to her parents and Eva was too glad and eager to take it. She immediately brought a few glasses, bottle opener, some soda, ice (as if these were constantly ready with them) and surprisingly a bottle of Russian Champagne with her from within the tent. Elz kept helping her too althrough. Mikhail was sitting with a constant smile. Elz went out to the cafeteria to procure something for nibbling. Since it was nearby she was too quick & she returned in a few minutes. Meanwhile prior to sitting for an evening get-together, Dipak remembered of another urgent task. That is to return his angling gears to the relevant local Officer-in-charge. While aiming to move, Elz joined him and Dipak gladly accepted her company to do so. After returning to their camps, all of them sat for an evening rendezvous. Eva opened the Russian Champagne, while Mikhail was too eager to open his favourite bottle of Scotch. Elz just opened the packet of snacks in a dish and arranged the glasses with ice cubes inserted within. Mikhail and Eva joined taking a glass of Scotch for each of them. As Dipak has never tasted Russian Champagne, in response to the request from Eva, he expressed his preference for that. However although Elz here officially was not so far permitted to have any hard drinks, as a matter of legal restriction, she kept herself happy with just a glass of shandy instead. Several Russian makes are there, reasonably similar to the English stuff.  

Then they started their formal introductory talks and incidental tales. Mikhail intimated as to how he managed to smuggle out Eva with him all the way to Poland, several years ago, escaping from the tough German the-then concentration camp near Dresden and they had later got married in Poland. Now Eva is a citizen of Poland, she does not maintain her German identity at all. She is now a school teacher in Danzig by profession and a house-wife too. In reply to a question, which is a typical female inquisitive approach, Dipak explained that he is not married so far. His plan is to at first get himself established with his work, surrounding and other relevant factors in the new country of his residence, i.e., England initially and then he will start thinking of marriage afterwards. Mikhail appreciated it, although it was Eva perhaps did not. Conversation was mostly in German language, although Mikhail often kept just interrupting in his impeccable English while asking Dipak of some questions direct. Surprisingly it was Elz, who was mostly listening to Dipak, did not speak out much. However after nearly an hour or so, when the initial flow of introductory conversation was somehow getting a little dragging, Elz got up too suddenly and asked permission from her Father, whether she can join Dipak for a bit of promenade, perhaps within the Camping ground perimeter, as he had earlier expressed his desire to do so. To that it was Dipak got too much surprised, since he could not remember as to when did he do so to her, although instantaneously he got the message and gave a smile just looking at her. Mikhail was too glad to do so. Elz went in, quickly changed her attire and came out in a normal simple dress and gave a signal to Dipak to get up. 

Elz came out from the so called open air–lounge in front of their tent and asked Dipak to join her. Dipak took permission from either of her parents and joined her too. As a matter of courtesy it was Mikhail with sincere thanks gave him a kiss at the forehead, whereas Eva finished her task with a pair of kisses at his cheek in front of all. The moment they came out from their tent a little far, Elz just could not stop her internal emotions, she jumped at him, embraced him again like an eager octopus and planted a kiss at his lips. Dipak was indeed somewhat puzzled at such a sudden expression of exotic ecstasy of passion and neither could he resist, nor could he join with same eagerness either. However a few moments later, he came back to senses & joined her with equal eagerness and kissed her back too.

Elz had since been in this camping ground in Leningrad, i.e., last couple of days and for this she is somewhat a bit familiar with the little geography of this overall large Camping Ground and took him to a cosy corner in the large open-air auditorium. Some interesting function for the children was going at that moment in the stage, but in local Russian language. Although the language was apparently like all “Hebrew” to him, still he could manage to get the theme of the programme. However Elz was although conversant enough with this language, she was more vibrant in embracing her recently acquired “boy friend” and kept herself engaged in kissing him frequently at this cosy corner. However as per the local custom in the town, normal people will not be at all inquisitive of it. In this fashion, she kept murmuring with a lot of several words that she has since acquired as relevant to love, although most of which are in her own language and a few in German too.

Like it or not, to Dipak it was an extra ordinary feeling. He has since never fallen in love. However one thing is certain, Elz is in love with him. He, inspite of such a heavenly incident, is feeling so sorry for this poor innocent girl.

The simple reason is Dipak comes off a just simple middle class, rather a low middle class family in his own state within India. The social pattern in his family there is so far not so advanced that they will gladly accept such a girl as his wife with a white skin, of European origin, with pomp & grandeur at all. Instead it is just perhaps the reverse. All the other existing members in his family, like most of the low middle class families in India, together with like minded neighbours, will always engage themselves in searching for some faults or flaws within her. Perhaps they will succeed in their sincere endeavour and they will make a big hue and cry out of nothing and behave as if the entire World is going to stop for all that. So much so, all of them collectively will not spare a single possible element even to turn or make her life miserable and make it just a hell. They will engage in fabricating all “cock & bull stories” to slow poison all her internal sentiments perhaps, until they totally succeed. Finally when the girl will get over disgusted and will decide to leave for her home back, leaving her husband all alone here, the crowd will change their jersey and interestingly too come back with a word of pseudo-sympathy to passify her, in order to register their effort, so that to Dipak all of them will eternally stand always super great. What a lot of paradox and what a shameful disgusting display of low middle class attitude or mentalities are all these ! Anyway nothing of these can be described to Elz at all and perhaps apparently never so. Meanwhile Elz was engaged in her soft lovely dialogues, although moist of which are just apparently heard of, although Dipak in all fairness certainly not listening most of all these. That is Dipak was hearing all those, but not listening to it.

The next couple of days went for him, as if he is in a dream or semi -sub-conscious state of his mind. Elz with her reasonable proficiency of the local Russian language helped him to do the city and often acting as a guide. She has dressed so nicely that made him speechless. Her either eye brow is nicely made-up. This reminds Dipak of a famous English verse and with permission from Elz, he uttered it.  

On thy eye’s ocean shore less and dark,                                                                            Rests thy eye brow like Noah’s Ark.

As it was all Hebrew to Elz, she wanted the meaning. Dipak somehow managed to communicate the gist to her, although the romance was not conveyed through that. Elz later in the evening asked her father the precise meaning of that and insisted Dipak to tell it again in presence of him. Dipak did that too. Mikhail indeed immensely impressed with the literary sense of Dipak’s and translated its meaning to his wife & daughter. All openly appreciated him.

They kept on moving from one place to another by way of the local transport system as it is existing. Dipak had converted some few pounds into local Russian Roubles, as tiny outlets like bus or tram and little food joints will accept only the local Roubles. An interesting thing here is, at most normal shops for food item is, that you have to pay for the desired item at first then when you come close to the delivery counter at the end of the queue, they will serve the food against the paid coupon just for that item or those items. It so happened in one bakery outlet, he preferred to have a croissant of a special fashion and thus wanted to purchase it. At that moment, he was advised to pay for this item at first and so he did too. However when at the counter, he was asking for that item, the girl at the counter admitted that it is since sold out. So what to do now ! They will not refund the money, instead she suggested for getting something else of his choice, if any, from the existing lot. Interesting !

He decided to take Elz for a lunch in a semi-posh restaurant, where due to the super price factor, the standard crowd is much too less. He had already asked prior permission from her parents to do so and also permission to give her something as a present too. He enquired whether “Dollar Shop” factor is applicable here ! As that facility is also available here, he decided to take her there. Elz has never been to such a prestigious dining hall here in Russia before and she herself was wondering that perhaps the overall levy will be too high for Dipak. This put her into some hesitations & she frankly admitted that to Dipak too. However Dipak was reasonably confident of his financial strength and thus with a little smile entered the hall with her, occupied a cosy corner in the Hall and asked for normal dishes, prima-facie of her choice and a simple dish for himself. He asked, just for the hake of tasting, one dish of Russian Caviar, as he has heard a lot of it, although never has had the pleasure of tasting it. It is so nice and interesting. Wonder as to why similar Russian restaurants are not there in London or other places in England or even in India too !

 She, after the lunch was over, he took him to the main city centre of Leningrad, namely the main road Nievsky prospect. This is the prime area of main shopping centre, having several large Malls, large restaurants and even a large stage or auditorium for dance hall. In fact the famous Russian dance group in the name of Bolshoi Ballet often comes here to exhibit their performance to the public. The next date for their super excellent programme is just a few days later, although levy for the tickets are far too high. The initial few rows are kept, for the people from the local Political & Town Authorities, as constantly reserved. Then starts all the next rows for the general public against tickets. The tickets are normally all sold as advance. Just at the programme day, however the last few rows are normally kept open for ticket sale at the counter for willing public, although since the hall is so large and wide, even sitting at the rear rows will not make much of a difference.

Afterwards, he took him to a large Mall and here they went at first for the millinery section, as her choice is to have a fashionable female hat. They purchased the specified item of her favourite choice. Recently Elz had watched a film, the Polish version of the famous English film “My Fair Lady” and thus she was wondering to purchase a female head gear, similar to the item that was worn by the famous actress, the heroine of the film. She, after purchasing it, went in front of the mirror to watch as to how she looks like. She was behaving very much like a little girl and so super glad at this new item of hat that they had since purchased for her. In fact it was Dipak too, since he also had liked this new look of the girl with this hat too.

It was in fact the first present from him to her and she could not keep her inner feelings too much concealed within herself. That is so, since immediately after clearing the payment, she straightway unpacked it from the packed item and put it over her head and went again in front of the mirror, did a bit of adjustment this way & that way, in order to ascertain such that she looks just like that film actress. Indeed she was looking very much like her too. Dipak also admitted it and so did the girl at the respective counter too with a smile. That girl was so nice that she wanted to pack it again in the package in such a fashion that it is easy for her to take it with them & get to the next shopping room.

In this fashion, it was Dipak, who was enjoying her company and honestly he admits to himself that this is an interesting experience that he is deriving out of it. The experience is not only new, it gives him a reasonable feeling of satisfaction, which comes out of something, perhaps is it “love” !      The price of this hat is indeed just nothing as compared to the local the-then English standard, i.e., as if just a bit more than that of a litre bottle of normal soft drinks, like Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Cola. He has since purchased several such bottles of soft drinks, although never had he ever had such a comfort in spending this little bit of money here. The experience is not only extraordinary, but also thrilling.

This slowly and gradually urges him to get closer to the girl, by way of joining her in this interesting shopping spree of hers, which eventually got him much involved in spending for some similar too attractive items, although which are, price-wise as compared to the the-then English standard, it is rather trifling. However all good things somehow or other comes to an end somewhere.

That is so, since suddenly he noticed that his entire troops of co-holiday makers in the mini-bus are just entering this super Mall, together with Ms Masha as the local interpreter-cum-guide. He quickly grabbed hold of Elz and went a little away, such that they do not notice him, although one of the girls had a glimpse of the entire incident as a matter of her feminine inquisitiveness. Dipak was aware of that too and thus decided to swiftly leave the floor and went for the upper floors.

This is the floor for garments meant for “His” and the rear area is meant for the toys for the kids. There is also another floor upwards, as this floor is marked for all garments & apparels meant for “Hers”. In the kids’ area, he pulled Elz and behaved as if he is interested in this load of toys for the kids. However since Elz was not that interested, he went to the rest of the floor, which is so marked for garments meant for “His”. Here he purchased a neck tie for Mikhail, as per Elz’s choice and asked the counter girl to get it in a presentation pack. They did too. Then they went to the upper floor, which is marked for all garments & apparels meant for “Hers”. He asked Elz as to what can perhaps he purchase as a matter of giving a present to Eva. It is good question. Elz is well aware of Eva’s choice. So she indicated Dipak to please wait at one place and she went alone to the counter to ask one of the counter girls for something in Russian. That girl nodded to Elz’s request and quickly got that out in a presentation pack for her. Then she came back to Dipak and requested him to make the payment for that. In response to Dipak’s polite question, she in short replied as if she will tell it later. Dipak is out & out a gentleman, as he got the message that it was something that she does not at all want to disclose it now to him.

In this way they had already so far spent a few hours, since they had had their lunch. Thus after a while, with this little quantum of shopping, they came out of the Super Market or Mall and noticed a place nearby who was selling some local make of varieties of cool soft drinks. Elz took him all that far asked for some cool refreshing soft drinks. In fact the woman had a real variety of several soft drinks and lots of people, men & women are enjoying it with a smile. It was nice, cool and thus refreshing !

It is an interesting country, whether you will call it rich or poor, it is confusing. The cost of a glass of such soft drinks is apparently much costlier as compared to a good quality of the petrol of same volume ! Further to this, when you are feeling like having a cup of tea, they cannot offer the tea as that is available in India or in England, since either of these are too similar. Here it is somewhat much different. When you ask for tea, most of them will come with a pot of the green tea of local or of Chinese origin. The Chinese green tea is a common item, available in abundance and that the local people here who will prefer to have some tea, like that of India or England, will have to specifically mention that. That is just too strange ! This is the country who is super strong and affluent indeed in producing petroleum. 

 Of course otherwise the overall food habits of the local people here is somewhat akin to that of the average people of Western Europe, mainly the countries like Slav countries, England, Germany, Holland, excepting the countries of Latin influence, like Italy, France. The average intake of the food is also somewhat similar to that of the Western Europe too. The only difference is that average people here is too much of a drink addict. Practically all the adult male members in most of the families are indeed heavy drinkers, although the female members are not lagging behind them either. Interestingly most of the drinks that are consumed is Vodka of various types or the other. Other standard drinks like as available in abundance in Western Europe, for instance, Whisky, Brandy, Gin, and Rum of the spirits group, wine, Sherries of different types, vermouth of wine groups and beer of a variety of simple beverage types – most of these at all are not that common here. Some beverage in the name of beer is also available here. For social get-together, they have the Russian make Champagne and Vodka for most of the rest. That is all. Scotch is far too rare an item and adored it here. 

However since Elz is not yet an adult, as per the International as well as the European scale, she is not allowed to have a hard drink at all in public, although she might have tasted it secretly at her home. She has to have a Coke or shandy as a beverage for satisfying her thirst. That is why Dipak also aborted the idea of a hard drink and he preferred to have a couple of cool coke glasses for either of them. After answering the bill to the old woman selling this, they started the drinks together. While sipping slowly in the glass, Dipak was curious as to what is their programme next here in this town. He was astonished to listen that they are also scheduled to leave around the lunch hour the next day, i.e., tomorrow. 

Strikingly the programme for Dipak’s team was also to leave just after the lunch tomorrow. However their team was to proceed for Moscow by the super highway and in all fairness, they will not be able to reach there tomorrow evening at all. They will have to have a halt enroute at a designated place and the next morning, after starting at about six in the morning, they will hopefully arrive Moscow town around the lunch hour. Instead the planning for Elz’s family was somewhat different. They just came here in the opposite direction, i.e., they had already done Moscow prior to arriving here. Thus for returning, Mikhail has planned for a voyage through a mini ocean liner. It starts from Leningrad, then it sails just towards southwest by the Gulf of Finland, later it will sail across the Baltic and in another couple of days, it will reach the port town of Gdansk (in other words Danzig) in Poland. From here Mikhail will take the delivery of his car and in a couple of hours will be reaching their home. Their holiday ends here.

That will mean that it is the last afternoon for either of them in Leningrad and also the last evening at Leningrad too. Elz came too sentimental at it, as she was totally unwilling to leave her first love so quickly at all. However that is reality and like it or not, that is also the hard fact of reality often it is too tough as it appears. So with permission from Mikhail & Eva, either of them spent the whole of the afternoon and the evening together at a theatre hall, not for watching the programme, instead to create opportunity for Elz to keep incessantly kissing him althrough. When much to their disliking, the programme was all over, they had to return to the Camping ground, had a mini dinner together in order to call it a day with “all tears & smile”. So that apparently was the last evening with either of them ! Dipak also went to his tent, started making arrangement for relaxing, by way of spreading the inflated air mattress and the cushion bag to relax for a while. It was already about 11.50 PM at the local clock. Suddenly he just heard some tiny sounds as if someone is making a soft attempt to open the rear entrance of the tent. He did not disclose the existence of the rear entrance to anyone else except his companion Austin Smyth in his team or Elz. So he became curious and came out for enquiring as to where the source of the sound is or where is it coming from. 

Around midnight, he returned after searching in vain for the source of the sound and was planning for going to his bed. He suddenly noticed that it was Elz, who was occupying his bed and looking at him with a naughty smile. He quickly got the entire message. Dipak was far too cautious of one thing, one tough simple Gospel of Fact. As per the European law, no male persons or a single man is supposed to make any sort of physical contact with any girl, who is still not attained the adulthood, i.e. who is not yet 18 years of age. That is, any exceptions or violations to this law, is severely punishable under the law at any place all over Europe. Further if the offender is a foreigner, you just had it ! Here indeed, the law is perhaps stricter.

So he was cautious too much, much against the whims & childish sentiment of this little too immature girl, i.e., Elz. She came with a thin nightie, i.e., night dress & simple knickers and nothing else but a pair of slippers. This has put Dipak in much embarrassment. However she does not want to waste the last few minutes of this apparent pre-marital honey-moon of hers. She straight way gave a pull, rather dragged Dipak towards her into the bed, embraced him like a serpent and of course filled his face and upper body with her passionate kisses. Meanwhile she herself took off her nightie in emotion & utter passion. She even seduced him to touch the nipple tips of her either tits and also immensely forced him to caress her. She desperately wants to have physical contact with her boy friend, i.e., for proper mating right now, as it seems. 

However in order to cunningly escape such a tight corner, it was Dipak behaved as if he is too much drunk and under the strong toxic effect of local alcohol, it was just not possible for him to do anything properly at all. So under this pseudo-disguise of an inebriate approach, he started talking cautiously something rubbish with a drunk voice too. This somewhat eventually pacified her strong emotions to a reasonable extent, without of course hurting her sentiment. She also noticed that Dipak physically was not warm enough for any mating activities at that moment. In this fashion, slowly she somewhat got disheartened & later went out for her own tent. It was around 1.00 AM in the morning. So that is it.

The next morning Dipak woke up too early and went to their tent area. Mikhail was already awake, as he had started packing his luggage. Soon came out Eva and afterwards the great little girl Elz. She was too glad to notice that Dipak is here with her father. Dipak was talking to him as a simple matter of courtesy as regards their next planning & all such tit- bits of local info. & similar trifling details. In response to that Mikhail intimated that he is planning to take his car loaded in a mini-ocean liner. It is supposed to arrive here in the local jetty at about 1.00 PM and open the hold at about 1.10 PM. for outbound loading. Apr. over hundreds of cars of various sizes fully loaded with passengers are likely to board and embark. This process is likely to take about 10 to 15 minutes. Then other luggage delivery & receipts will proceed simultaneously of course.

Its schedule for the Captain is to give a warning siren for starting is at about 1.40 PM. Then it will make its voyage through the Gulf of Finland, then through Baltic towards down Southwest. Mikhail said that to reach the jetty and get registered in the queue it will take about an hour. So he is planning to start around 12.000 to 12.10 PM as per the local clock.

After it sails off, Mikhail keeps telling him, its first halt is early next morning in the Republic of Estonia. Then after sailing off from there, it will halt next at Latvia again in the afternoon & once again another stoppage at Lithuania in the evening. Once it sails off from this last destination for that day, its schedule for the next stoppage is at Poland early next morning. Gdansk is the second stoppage at about 11.00 AM in the morning. Once they come out of the hold of the ship, it will take about an hour for them to reach home. That is the description of their return programme in short. Indeed it is thrilling for them. He said that he has already reserved a cabin having four berths in it. So he suggested Dipak, why doesn’t he change his mind to come & join them, as space is there, although instead Dipak politely declined it.

With due euphemistic gratitude, Dipak asked for pardoning him, since the main item of objective for their European extravanza is targeting for Moscow, as all of them are utterly eager to have a trip in this city too. That is what the ultimate objective in this programme of theirs is. In fact in another two to three hours or so, their plan is to start packing and their target is also to start around 2.00 PM, after having a quick lunch or nibbling as per the individual choice. In fact most of them will just like to have a packed lunch and Masha has already given request to the cafeteria for preparing several packets of lunch, virtually all of these packets are just identical.

Dipak intimated that their programme is to start a little later, although in the same day too. He told that he will certainly come to say a final word of “Adieu” to all of them just a few minutes prior to that.

Thus at about 11.00 AM, Dipak completed all his packing inclusive of personal luggage, cautiously dismantled the tent, packed it nicely in the specified luggage-bag for surrendering to Peter & left with all his personal luggage in a suitcase – all in the mini-bus van of theirs, which was since parked adjacent to their tent area. So did most of the other mates of his. Nine couples have all since started packing their personal stuff all in their proper tagged luggage and dumped in the mini-bus van too. So in other words, all of them are reasonably ready to start from here towards Moscow. The journey is far too long as the distance is far too much to cross in one single day, although not that impossible either. That is if you start very early in the morning, that is around 5.00 AM then around 10.00 PM you will perhaps be able to complete it. However their plan is to make a halt at a place en-route, since it has a fairly large Camping Ground too. Their plan is to halt here for the evening and get started early next morning & then they can reach Moscow at about 10.00 to 11.00 AM or so. Advance intimation was since given to them too, so that space for accommodation is reserved just for them.

Just a few minutes to twelve, it was Dipak, came to say farewell to the members of Geba family with three nice flower bouquets. He gave one bouquet to either of her parents one after the other and the third one, which was indeed a tiny bouquet with a lot of red roses for Elz. Mikhail was too glad at it. He kissed his forehead, Eva like before kissed either of his cheeks. Elz however could not stop her inner feelings. She rushed towards him & passionately in front of her parents embraced him tightly & gave him an emotional kiss at his lips. Mikhail was looking the other way, although Eva noticed it with pleasure & apparently she approved of it with a smile, as if with indulgence. Mikhail gave Dipak in a sheet of paper all details of his home address in Poland, with phone no. & proper direction as how to reach his place, when they will reach Poland, in about two weeks or so. Dipak had since explained him too of their itinerary in a reasonable detail. Their programme is to stay in the Capital Moscow for ten days, then they will start towards Poland, have a halt for the evening at Minsk at Belorussia, then the next day in the morning proceed West bound towards Poland, eventually crossing International check-post at Brest, their plan is to reach the Camping Ground at Warszawa, in the Poland Capital. Here they have a programme of stopping for two days.

This is what & where Mikhail was advising Dipak to do, i.e., when in Poland, to give him a call over the phone and then he will arrange to do something for him, i.e., either they will come to their Camping Ground to meet him or will arrange for picking him up to come over to Gdansk for a day or so for staying with them at his home. His plan is indeed nice, although not certain, how far that is achievable for them. That is so, since this is their return journey programme, it is fixed and after two days, they have got a plan to cross over to Berlin and camp here in West Berlin too. 

The Geba family finally had just left. Dipak was felling as if a member of his own family is leaving.

So too the entire Camping holiday makers of Hughes Overland are also getting ready for the big take-off. Meanwhile Masha has just managed to get all the lunch packs from the Cafeteria, all bills are cleared & when all items or activities are since ready they decided to start. The first thing that Peter did was to fill the fuel tank completely with proper fuel from the petrol pump that is just adjacent to the Camping Ground. It is a long drive and with a few intermittent short halts en-route, finally managed to reach their destination at about quarter to eight in the evening. All are much tired. So quickly they went to their designated space together with Masha and pegged their respective tents. Since this Camping Ground arena is not as vast or large as that of Leningrad, Masha just requested Dipak to allow her to share his tent. As there is no other choice, he agreed too.

Next morning, after starting at six in the morning, they reached the outskirts of Moscow at about ten in the mid-day and straightway went to the Camping Ground. As Masha is not that conversant with the large city here, another very pretty girl in the name of Stania from Intourist was allotted to them as a “Guide of a Guide”. So these two girls acted as their local guides and they were too helpful in their professional approach. The Moscow Camping Ground is even much larger than that of Leningrad’s and there is a couple of proper large rooms for all such guides.

Let us not get into all the relevant details of intricate nitty gritty of their overall holiday programme in Moscow. Only two significant items here are due to mention.

This schedule of this holiday programme incidentally in fact has strangely coincided with two large significant events of interest to all Indians. As per the calendar it is July 1971.

The first was that, the-then Prime Minister of our India had in fact signed in Moscow the world famous “defence related peace pact” with her counterpart in Russia, in order to combat against all possible invasions, which were since brewing & growing from our neighbouring countries & their allies, like USA or others. The next is the International Film Festival which was held in Moscow the same week too, where an Indian film won the best awards here.These incidents are true. Please note that either of these are actual & happened, since the history will confirm either of these

Meanwhile in Moscow all of them, under the dual guidance of Masha & Stania, did the entire notable & famous spots, like the Red Square, the Kremlin Palace, the huge Dollar shop at the Hotel Moscow. Indeed this shop is even larger that the duty free shop at Beirut Airport in Lebanon, West Asia.

Resuming the holiday programme, after an eventful ten days, they decided to start their homewards return journey and left Moscow early morning at about seven for Minsk. Stania took off from here. Tomorrow she will join another group. They all drove West bound and after a few interim halts, they reached the Camping Ground at Minsk at six in the evening. This is a reasonably large outfit with all amenities. The programme is just overnight stay here. All arrangements are much appreciable & so is the food at the cafeteria. So after spending the night here, they re-started their return journey at about eight in the morning and similarly with a few interim halts, they reached Brest, the last point of USSR. That is the point of International Check-Post. Here too all essential formalities of Russian Immigration, Security & Customs are equally tough, although somewhat less as compared to their entry point. Interestingly it was Masha, as she had to leave all of them here, as her next trip will soon get commenced from here. She kissed all of them said bye bye to all of them. She is indeed a nice girl.

POLAND :-

They entered Poland after crossing the hassles at the last Russian Check-Post and they started driving straight West bound heading for the Capital, Warszawa, and finally reached the designated place for the Camping Ground at about seven in the evening. The Camping ground office was just totally empty, since all the officials had gone for dinner. One old woman, who was perhaps kept there as a matter of guarding the Office, advised them in rustic German to go straightway for dinner. The dining hall, rather the tent is at a distance of over hundred meters at the end of the area. So once all of them reached there, they noticed that the local In-Charge could speak no other language, except Polish. However one of her assistants, a little girl, who could speak somewhat German, helped them out and kept on interpreting all facts or figures to her senior. So it is another struggle. Nonetheless, once this Chapter is over, let us call it a day for all of us, so said all of them. The ground was although not so large, it was clean and well illuminated and the toilets are clean too. All of them pegged their respective tents and went out for relaxing. Here of course no Masha or Stania is there to help them.  

Next morning after their morning snacks are over, suddenly a very well dressed official girl came and enquired of Dipak in the Camp. She met Dipak and passed the message that she received from their Director His Excellency Mr Mikhail Geba, as he is unable to come, as his daughter Elz has caught fever and at such a point of distress, he is apologising for his inability to come in order to meet. In response to that it was Dipak replied and requested her to convey his personal gratitude to him & advised that treatment for Elz is the first priority and he hopes she gets up well too soon. He gave his address in Hatfield in England and residence phone no. too and mentioned that within the next four days he is expected to return to England as planned so far with them.

So all of them had spent the whole day within themselves doing the town reasonably and at the end of the day, they all called it a day like so many other days too. Poland is apparently not a rich or that affluent country like that of Western Europe’s or Russia even. He could notice existence of the bullock carts for carrying luggage just at the outskirts of the town, although surprisingly its wheels are of rubber and pneumatically inflated and not like the old primitive wheels as in India.

East & West Germany :-

They left the Camping Ground in the next morning & after crossing the International Check-post, they just entered East Germany, driving though the famous Autobahn to reach West Berlin in the evening and parked at their Camping Grounds. 

Once again it is West Germany and interestingly Americans have created, rather decorated this town of West Berlin as a show-piece, just as a matter of creating utter contrast to that of East Berlin. They all went through the largest & most crowded road at the city centre in the name of Kurfurstendam went to the Kongress Halle to attend an International exhibition of modern Arts & several such places. All of them had a quick trip to the World famous Brandenburg Gate & entered within the periphery of East Berlin with a temporary pass. All the items are displayed in the shops neatly, although price-wise it is much cheaper as compared to that of Russia’s or Western Europe’s too.

However they were all exhausted & so returned early to their camp in order to call it a day as it is tomorrow, Peter will like to start his van as early as possible for his return journey towards Belgium.

So he did too and starting at about 6.00 AM, he at first crossed the West Berlin city limits, later the International check-posts again of East Germany, entered West Germany and kept driving via cities of Hannover & several other towns of West Germany & he finally entered Belgium at about 8.00 PM.

Again Belgium :-

A little later he reached the last point of his destination, i.e., Ostend Camping Ground at a stretch. 

All of them were much exhausted, that they somehow managed to have something for the dinner and called it a day for all. Some of the couples were so tired that they did not bother to open the tent too. They just decided to lie down in the open air, as the sky is since clear & average people are so decent that none of them are that inquisitive as to why they are all relaxing like this. For Dipak too, it was much the same, he opened his air mattress & other gears and spread these in the ground for relaxing. 

Soon came the next morning & all of them were in a good mood as they are finally returning home a few hours later. The flight from Ostend to South End is scheduled at 4.00 PM & the airport check in is at least an hour before. Thus eventually all of them completed checking in & said “adieu” to Peter, as his next journey for similar trip starts from here tomorrow. He is a paid employee of the Hughes Overland. While boarding the aircraft, one of Dipak’s trip mates, a naughty Irish girl in the name of Irene, her boy friend is an innocent Scottish, suddenly asked Dipak whether has he taken his girl with him ! All got startled at it. So did Dipak too. What the hell is she after ! Just a minute later she, with a smile, explained that she is mentioning of Stella, i.e., Stella Artois, the local lager beer. All the other mates joined Dipak in a loud laughter.

RETURN TO ENGLAND :-

However the weather was fine and the aircraft landed a few minutes prior to its schedule at South End in England. The next connection from South End is at 5.10 PM and it reaches Liverpool Street at about 6.40 PM. That ends the overall holiday programme. From here all have to leave for their individual destinations. 

A FEW MONTHS LATER :-

However the harmony of life continues, irrespective of all “if’s and but’s” and so it was for Dipak too. He in his Hawker Siddley office in Hatfield, was working seriously in respect of a programme, while suddenly their group receptionist girl in the name of Ruth came to him and told that he has got an International call somewhere from the Continent. He apparently forgot the entire holiday programme, just except remembering some glimpses, at his leisure hour at his residence in the evening. So with much of a surprise, he received the call and got startled to listen the female voice speaking in German; He at once recollected who can that be in the Earth ! Right, it was Elz. She wanted to convey Dipak that her 18th birthday is just a few days away and she cordially invites him to come & grace the glorious event.

Although Dipak won’t mind accepting such invitation, still he had to politely decline with an apology too, as it is difficult to get again holiday from the Office, availability of the visa and connection for cheap air tickets. So he went to the newspaper shop to purchase a 18th birthday greetings card, packed it nicely, affixed proper stamp, put their address, wrote something in English and with proper stamp posted it. It reached the schedule destination properly too as the female voice called her again a few days afterwards and she wanted to convey her gratitude for such a nice card. However that was the beginning of another chapter in his life too. Fortunately he had connection for a telephone at his residence flat too. He gave the no. to Elz and this prompted her to call him too often, practically initially once a week, afterwards twice a week, every alternate days & finally it was daily in the evening hours. The duration kept on increasing gradually as it was initially a minute or two, & now it is twenty to thirty minutes at a stretch.

Meanwhile Elz started learning English and due to her super extraordinary interest, surprisingly she started picking it up much faster than the average students. She also has completed her schooling and got admitted in the local University in Poland & took English as optional language in her degree course curriculum. In fact she has picked up reasonably faster and to inspire her constantly there is her father. So much so, she often gets into conversation with her father in English and Eva keeps looking at them, as if all Hebrew to her. One day she in fact started opening her conversation with Dipak over the telephone even in English. Dipak could not just believe it at all. Is he hearing the right thing or is it some sort of the day dreams or something like that ? However this is one fact that he had to appreciate that her pronunciation is right and interestingly her accent is reasonably perfect too. So since that day they kept conversing, mostly in Deutsch and English too.

SURPRISE :-

Suddenly one day Dipak received a call that next Monday she is arriving England, Mr Mikhail Geba is a senior official of the Ministry of External Affairs, i.e., Foreign Ministry of the Govt. of Poland and he has a programme to come to England. In fact they are toying with the idea of a Missile Propulsion Centre to locate somewhere in the coastal areas of Poland. In that connection he is deputed from the Poland Govt to meet the relevant officials in England, discuss and finalise the deal, if feasible too. It indeed so happens, the best centre for Missile Propulsion in England is also at Hawker Siddley in Hatfield, the company where Dipak works. He works for another unit, i.e., Aviation , although in the same campus. For this purpose, they have made arrangement for their accommodation in their VIP Guest House, also located at Hatfield, adjacent to the plant perimeter. As Mr. Geba is leading the Polish team together with a few other colleagues, he is allotted the large suite in the VIP Guest House. This is an opportunity that Elz wanted to avail of. First of all, it is England and next it is at Hatfield, the place where Dipak is working. So she forced and made her father agree to accept her adamant approach and allowed her to join them.

HER ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND :-

As a matter of courtesy or whatever it is, Dipak went to receive them and then together with Mikhail & Elz, came straight to Hatfield. They were given a very warm red carpet welcome as several senior officials of the office were present to receive them. Apprehending that a similar such situation perhaps might arise, he deliberately got down a few meters prior to the gate & later walked slowly to his own office. He noticed that the team members were escorted to the VIP Guest House, as initial discussion will get commenced here itself. Thus he waited for their lunch hour to come. During the lunch hour, he went to meet them as a matter of courtesy and met either of them. The Company since had hosted a dinner in their honour & Dipak took this opportunity to communicate that he will come to pick her up after the close of the working hours. Elz was too glad to agree to that.

Exactly at quarter past six, Dipak came to pick her up & went to the nearest off- license shop to purchase her favourite drink and drove to his flat. Elz was too eager to kiss him and as soon as they entered the flat, she kissed him like a mad woman. She kept kissing her for several minutes and later they opened the bottle and shared the drink within themselves. She was gradually getting excited and at one point, she could not resist herself any further, She straight went up to Dipak, dragged him to his bed, rather pulled him, them embraced just like a serpent prior to mating. This mating is their first pre-honeymoon extravanza and she enjoyed it immensely to be honest.

Although she was adamant somewhat to stay for the entire night, Dipak explained that as they are here as their Official guests, as a matter of protocol, she has to return. So Dipak took his Austin Mini car out again & took her to the VIP Guest House to drop her. She made him promise he should take her out again tomorrow like this. In fact they did so the next day too. However the next morning to that day the team had left. So that was the first of their pre-honeymoon meeting in his flat & for mating too.

Since that day, it was Elz had made it a point that whenever there is a holiday for a few days like the Easter or Christmas, even off in her University classes, she came all the way to England and Dipak diligently received her from Heathrow, take her to his flat, stay for a few days, indulge in shopping for various items, mostly non essential from the nearby mall and other varieties of shops & drop her again at Heathrow for her to fly back to Poland on the schedule date, of course after spending at least a couple of days of intimate mixing for either of them. Incidentally there is a direct flight from Gdansk to Heathrow flying out daily & it is also nonstop. Meanwhile she has picked up English language reasonably too. Often Dipak gave so many presentable gift items for her parents through her & they in turn conveyed their thanks to him over the phone too. Eva also returned several of their presentable items to him, through Elz.

SUDDEN STOPPAGE IN THEIR PROGRAMME :-

In fact either of them has fallen in serious love with each other. This perennial game of ecstasy of such incessant love making within these two individuals was continuing since several months at a stretch, rather over a year to be precise. Elz was seriously thinking, with the consent of her parents, to get married with this boy friend of hers, i.e., Dipak, after completing her University Degree course. Mikhail has advised that if she can complete the course with colours, as Elz is always a good student, he will then arrange her to sit for another much tougher examination, on the strength of qualifying which, she will qualify to become an Official in the overseas Foreign Mission, which will confirm posting in all the Embassies or Consulate Offices of Polish Government missions abroad. That is just why she is so serious in her studies, except sparing a thirty minute gap daily for speaking to Dipak over the phone. The added advantage here is that she & her spouse together with her, either of them will also get a visa for living & working in that country too. Elz explained this to Dipak and thus either of them started anxiously sitting together for her to complete the University curriculum at first.

However as all activities do not last forever, whether good or bad, it happened to their lives too. In this instance it is Dipak’s Mom from their home town in West Bengal in India. She, as a bolt from the blue, has asked him to come home as it is already several years that he is away from home. In fact so much so, that she started writing letters far too frequently with an idea that Dipak is to realise the seriousness, with which she is asking. All these letters from her are for obvious reasons far too sentimental and emotional and in a way it can get translated as emotional blackmailing him too.

Dipak consulted one of his friends, another countryman in the name of Mr Subhas Deshmukh, who lives in an adjacent flat. He is a married man and lives peacefully with his wife. In fact Dipak had introduced Elz to them too. He also suggested that why not make a trip to India this Christmas, which is just a few weeks away and come in order to resume the job again. His wife Susmita also suggested the same. She has met Elz and got introduced to her. She liked her. After thinking so many pros & cons, he finally decided to take a trip and consulted a local travel agent the next week end. They suggested that a Middle Eastern Airlines has some last few seats vacant and booking now will get the advantage of getting the seat at bargain price. So he did too. He intimated Subhas that he is planning to take off this week end and meanwhile requested them to look after his flat too, as they also live in the same complex of housing. Thus it is Dipak finally had arrived home after over five years and all his relatives were too glad to have him once again within them. For obvious reasons, he brought one suitcase full of various presents for them all.

However Dipak’s Mom, Senior Mrs Ghosh had a different plan of action in her mind and she one day explained that to Dipak. That was she has prima-facie selected a bride from neighbouring community for him, for marriage. Inspite of vehement objections and protests from him, she did not bother at all and applied all sentimental & emotional weapons against her own son at a stretch. She thus finally managed to mend him and got him married in a month. Meanwhile a lot of drama got enacted at his house and all his relatives sided his Mom for obvious reasons. His Mom did not even bother to ask whether there is anyone anywhere of his preference that he might have pre-selected for wedding. She took it for granted that whatever she decides, her son will politely obey & accept all like a good lad. This is just like the old Indian mentality for most of the old-fashioned parents, which are as yet indeed highly prevalent all over the country even as of date. Perhaps you all are well aware of, like it or not !

However to Dipak it was not so easy to accept. However he coolly thought that it is no fault of the girl, her name is Neela and she is indeed a good girl as per the Indian scale. Dipak’s elder brother Pulak is an IAS Officer and he is seconded to the Ministry of External Affairs. He lives in the NCR region of the Capital with his wife Mita, in a place called Chittaranjan Park. He was there during the marriage too. Although he also wanted to explain his Mom for allowing for preference to Dipak, in the event he has any preference, she did not bother and acted like Mrs Hitler in her family too. Pulak can realise Dipak’s mental state of affairs and that is why he suggested Dipak to come and stay with them at NCR at their house. Dipak in response thanked them, although did not accept the invitation. Meanwhile he got a job offer from a Multi-National Company in Bombay for a suitable post & since he is conversant with German language, together with his experience abroad, they were glad to accept him at a Senior post. Without asking for any opinion from anyone, he accepted it and within a few days went to join them. Initially he went all alone and later after a few months, he arranged to have Neela come & join him. All foreign companies maintain an unwritten law of preference that all senior executives are preferably for being happily married couples. 

Days were passing by and all things were somehow moving, just maintaining some simple systems of harmony within each other. Dipak comes home once a year just for a couple of days with minimum words with all others and virtually no words with his Mom. This is how all things were moving for the last three years when suddenly a little jolt just turned so many things.

ANTI - CLIMAX IN THE OVERALL SCENARIO :-

In the European scenario, it was Elz, who was somehow desperate as she was not getting any sort of a response from Dipak, inspite of all her attempts to search for him. So she just came one day herself to England & straightway went to the Dipak’s house.

Strange ! Someone else is living there, instead of Dipak ! How come ! The gentleman admits that he receives letters addressed to Dipak & he collects all and gives to Mr Subhas who lives in the same complex of house. Elz then went to meet Subhas. Fortunately they were not just there at the moment. After a few minutes, Subhas appeared in the scene and noticing Elz from a distance, he fabricated some Cock & Bull story and told her, Dipak has gone home & perhaps might not come in the near future. Elz got his address in West Bengal in India, as that is what Subhas had and with that she left the place. He is not yet aware of his latest address in Bombay so far.

Interestingly, Elz got through all her University exams, then she qualified for the special exam that her father was suggesting and now she is a qualified Diplomat in the Second Officer grade in Poland. It so happened that a meeting was scheduled to be attended in India at the Diplomatic levels and Mikhail once again was deputed as the ring leader of such a team. As a matter of super wild coincidences, it was Elz too was selected to join him as the Second Officer, as she will have to follow up the entire matter afterwards to the extent it is essential. So Elz wrote a letter to Dipak intimating that she will be coming to his country and she also mentioned the precise info. of the flight details with a request for him to attend it to receive her.  

Jesus !! What to do now ! Dipak immediately consults his elder Pulak over the phone and intimated the latest developments. Pulak was somewhat aware of all such developments, suggested that best way of approach is come here & meet the challenge, whatever comes on the way we shall overcome. So Dipak took a few days holiday from the office and reaches to Pulak’s place a day in advance. It is needless to mention that Neela is with him too. Mita, Pulak’s wife was too glad to meet all of them. They had spent the whole of the evening in chatting all within themselves. The next morning Elz is scheduled to arrive here. As Pulak is working as a seconded official to the Ministry of External Affairs in India, he managed to get four special passes to enter the Diplomatic Enclave within Palam.

The Polish Airliner, which is an originally Russian Illyusin Aircraft, had landed with a loud roar, a few minutes prior to its schedule arrival & it was then hauled to the proper parking point. It is so near the entry pavilion that no vehicle is necessary for the passengers to come and enter the pavilion. Thus all of them started, after proper disembarking, walking towards the entry pavilion one after the other. Once the crowd of the general public is over, then they started the exit of the Diplomatic team. At first came down the stewardess, then His Excellency Mr Mikhail Geba. He is the Chief of the Ministry of External Affairs in Poland and acting as the Pseudo Minister of External Affairs and immediately after him it is Elz, then all the other officials’ one after the other.

Mita was somewhat aware of the overall episode of Dipak’s vis-a-vis Elz’s, as gathered from her husband Pulak and so with due diligence, she was awaiting an opportunity to pass it to Neela. So last evening was the golden moment for her to do so and she unearthed everything of course with a bit of colour & some exaggeration too, as it is natural for any woman in the World, so much so in India too. Neela was too eager, as much it was Mita, to have a look at the Polish beauty in person and so either of them admitted that she is really a very pretty girl.

Mr Mikhail Geba was given a guard of honour and so all others in the team had to patiently wait. Once the formalities are over, all of them started walking towards the Diplomatic Enclave within Palam. Elz was looking all round the Pavilion with an eager inquisitiveness and once she located Dipak, she could not help but running towards him, ignoring Mikhail & all others in the team. She came and jumped at Dipak embraced him in front of all & gave a grand long kiss. It was so sudden and that too in Indian scenario, Dipak even could not do much against it.

However although Mita was constantly watching Dipak together with Pulak from a distance, what is it, that has happened to Neela ! She is looking the other way rubbing her eyes for something. Is it some few drops of tears or is it dirt or dust has disturbed her or is it just something else, really something else has disturbed her !

 

Can you please get the answer for us !