reunion in dhaka

What an oppertunity to meet my old and dear classmates! I went to Bangladsh on a very short visit of 2 weeks. I was calling many of my friends before leaving canada regarding a long awaited proper reunion which never happened over last 19 years. There were one or two fragmented gathering mostly with dhaka based friends. Shahen always takes the responsibilty for oroganizing events.This time as well he and Lipi took the responsibility to contact people. I did my part to call many but it was left to Shahin. Lipi, Jaynul and others to bear the burnt of oranizing.

I spent two days at Rajshahi and went to meet my friends at the medical college and hospital. I met Tuku at the anatomy department and we together started to call everybody. We then sat at Charu mama's canteen. Charu mama's canteen was not a very pleasant site, but this was where we passed many of our golden days as a medical student. Many of those who were available joined us ( Badsha, Ashim, Saiful, Tuku, Papri ). We called Mousumi, Simi, Ripon & Chapal but they were all gone home by that time. I tricked Zahid by calling him for a ceasarean section and to meet the specialist at anatomy department. ( He is an anesthetist like me and always on the beconing unlike me!) Ankhi was the last to arrive and our proceedings broke off very quickly as people had their own businesses. I spoke about meeting at a dinner at Nanking chinese restaurant on 6th and got an approval from everybody.

On 6th we sat at Nanking at 9 pm. Everybody said that though people were around for quite sometime but a get-together was never organised. How good it felt to sit together! Ashim brought about the memories of our classmates whom he troubled,specially Jibesh. He also troubled chapal keeping him waiting outside Baby's house while devouring on sweets of Shabe Barat.
Tasu talked about Mahtabe Alam , the then Gyne reg and Badsha filled in his experience from Naoga to top it up and we broke in laughter. Swapna spoke about the college days. Ongshu about his practice, Badsha always had that mischievous smile, chapal very patient. In the middle of everything , just before food, a very old man entered the room and I was about to tell him that it is private party. When he took his cap off I realised he was our Sajed. He was telling us about our age. We are aging. There were talk about children's admission and parents experience. Everybody was wondering why Badsha was not atending the reunion at dhaka as he said his daughter has to take admission test."What would u do with the kid?" I replied for him " He wil be a calming medicine,for the daughter , and specially for the daughter's mom." Zahid had his experience last year and he felt for Badsha.

I felt something was going around which I was not a part of. Some underhand exchanges, whispers. Suddenly I realised money was changing hands. I was told I was a guest and my friends are paying for me. Perplexed and bit surprised but tried to enjoy the honour. Ashim was saying repeatedly that they spared me this time but sheepishly said if u really want to give us a treat , organise it next year and include the families. Well!Well! Good. I said when I come next time, we will organise a family picnic.
We finished on happy note. Girls did not have a car and it was late at night. So Ongshu dropped them. Probably he was blaming my forefathers for putting him in that situation. He was the only one with a vehicle and he had no choice!
Me and Badshah, we went on a rickshaw and was churning nostalgic past.We stopped at bindur more and was looking for a restaurant where we ate together with Sultan on a gloomy day on march 88. Thats another story.
i will write about the reunion at dhaka soon. Till then.

a short video clip of who attended th dhaka reunion: copy and paste the link below or search "ashit bardhan"on the youtube. rmc 25th batch reunion is the title.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBS4GcdDkAo