Rathin Samanta has joined his new posting at Chalta gaunge. He has come from the Town Machher Bagan High School. There he had been posted as Assistant head master. After having been promoted to the head master post Rathin got transferred to Chalta gaunge High School.
Five days have passed since Rathin has joined his new post to take over the charge of the head master there.
Today it’s sunday. Rathin has decided to take a tour around the area for a sight seeing.
It was 3 pm Rathin had got out alone to travel on foot. After travelling for two hours he had already travelled various visiting spots like local library, post office, Rastriya bank, Sangshad Bhavan and others. But now he has got so tired that he could no more travel and started to look for a place to sit and take rest. Suddenly he could hear someone to ask from behind,”Rathin Babu, have you got tired so early?” The forty seven years old middle-aged got surprised to hear his name from an unknown person in a new locality. Actually Rathin was almost a new man in Chaltagaunge, still someone was calling him by name. It was really a strange matter to Rathin. He at once looked back and found a handsome middle-aged with a smiling charm at Rathin. Rathin too threw a courtsey smile at the stranger. The stranger looked some gentle and wise. He had started insistimg Rathin to walk farther but Rathin got so tired that he didn’t agree and had sitten on a brick constructed platform.
Now Rathin asked the gentleman, “How could you know my name?” The gentleman answered,” I know everyone here.”Now Rathin again asked,”Where do you stay?” The man had replied with his forefinger indicating a well organised village at a far distance,”There….” Rathin got charmed to see the village scene and exclaimed ecstatically,” Wow, it’s really wonderful.” The gentleman had reciprocated at once,”It’s the new village of Chaltagaunge. I’m the founder of that village because I’m the chief (moral) of there.” But now Rathin had objected little ,”…..but I think that I havr ever read about the new village of Chaltagaunge to be burnt to ashes in a fire mishap!” The stranger had agreed to it and said,” Yes , it’s fact that in a month of May when each family was busy to cook at noon the thatched roofs of the huts had got too tender to bear that heat and had caught fire.” The gentleman had stopped talking more. Now Rathin asked again,” Then…?” The man replied,”Nothing else then. My dreams had got shattered to ashes. Nobody was there to renovate it.” Rathin had asked then,” Where are you staying now?” The man answered,”There but in the form of ashes.”Rathin got surprised at the stranger’s comment and asked,”what do you mean?” The man had replied,”Fire was so violent that every villager including me had died of it.” The stranger immediately had disappeared.
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