We have decided to convert my father’s room into one with all his memorabilia – his pen , spectacles , watches , certificates he received , the books he was regularly reading , his note books , his personally made telephone directory , pictures  and so on. We would not use the room for [...]

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Chanting Geeta is a part of the death  rituals . Here Bapi Acharya , one Sanskrit scholar and  an eminent astrologer from Nabadwip is chanting Geeta in my father’s room. His father was a very close friend of my father. He was so shocked  at my father’s death that he came down  all the [...]

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Gardening was my father’s avid passion. He grew this mango tree on the terrace garden ! This also bears fruit every year – one of the best variety of mango , extremely good in taste though they grow only a few.

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While  cremating  the dead ,  a  small portion of the forehead bone  is preserved along with ashes to be immersed later on in Ganga at holi places like Nabadwip dham or Hrardwar. The first four days these objects in an earthen container is buried at a place outside  home. The fifth day of the [...]

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The rituals entered the tenth day and I performed the Dashakarma .One of the aspect of the rituals is that one needs to tonsure the head. People are saying I  am looking like Dalai Lama ! This is a pic taken on the terrace of my Coochbehar home. You would see the large  lake [...]

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