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The Story:
Now I am developing. It's late, but purposeful. I need more time, as the process is lengthy in which I am through. My plan to develop myself and my future generation is on processing. Results are yet to come. But final results are more yet to come.
‘The Great Kolkata’, and I, are depending on each other. ‘The city of joy’, although becomes the city of politics; still it has some incredible beauties that are concealed in the smog of people. I, myself, can see this vividly that I cannot account for. Not really, the selfies or pictures or videos with ‘them’ are good options for this unseen beauty; the eyes, the retina and a deep wonder look can unveil this immense beauty.
‘Gone through the wind’, gone through the nature indeed, typically overcome the rigidity of stiffness from me and those, who can look like me or by my eyes.
Yes, the development of myself, reflects clearly the development of my ‘Girlfriend’. Maybe, this do not make any sense for anybody, but a great matter for this ‘lover’ (for me). The ‘heart’ of my Girlfriend, is the center for kindness, punctuality and an ancient greatness. Most people, themselves, involved in this, the so-called mere process. But a few of them realized in the past, the actual greatness; now it is under the rubbing process.
‘The city of joy’ ‘The Kolkata’; Her ‘heart’ The College Street.
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She opens her heart, every morning, and after a long and tiresome process, plunged into the darkness of sleep after the last minute of the evening. Her ‘circulatory systems’, I mean, the books, has been operated each day by a messy and cumbersome process that we, human beings do.
Each and every lazy mornings’ of Kolkata and her Bengalis’, makes the street late riser and lazy. Although the sleepy process in not that late, but a huge early. But no matter what Bengalis do in their early mornings; time comes when the shops are opened, books are gone through a cleaning process, either by a ‘Nakra’ (a piece of rejected cloth) or by book-cleaning ‘Jharu’ (a type of tiny broom); after that a quick decoration of books has been done, and finally, the cleaning of the tiny areas of each shop, either by the ‘Malik’ (the owner) or by the ‘Karmachary’ (the labors).
Sun rises from the east, and time by time, raises till the 10:00 AM comes. No matters, it is summer or winter or monsoon or autumn; The Great Sun stops raising and stay at a typical position, and the books are ready to be sold. But it is not that easy we think of; sometimes after birth, sometimes after childhood, sometimes after youth, and sometimes after a ripe age, these circulatory systems are ready to be sold. But many of her clones the reprinted books, remain unsold generation to generation, and the pages get reddish, torn, and thin that make them less or no attractive. In the past, book-worms usually searched for the above-mentioned reddish books for the most past knowledge that was once very attractive to them. There may be huge reasons. One might be the less-fashionable and devoting era. Others may be others. The thing here is that, the reddish books was once golden, but now in the garbage or sold for ‘Thonga’ (a type of paper-made bag, used instead of small plastic bags) making.
Ahh !!! Our hands have become stiff, and we are not interested in the PTO process. The computer makes it easy, or more particularly, the internet.
Whatever may be; students from colleges and universities, schools, and other formal-informal centers, ‘visit’ this center of books more than that we can assume this street, the center of most of the popular Schools, Universities and Institutions.
Students and teachers, comes from home to these study zones, and from there, to college street, and from there, to these book-shops and bring the books with, without or a compromise bargaining.
Sun, then raising up and up and up and the more and more the student-common people ‘mob’ becomes stronger and stronger, and then at 12:00 PM, the strongest. Scorching heat or slant sunlight, whatever may be the fact, it is impossible for at least the college street to relief herself from the long ongoing environment. The trees get never old; green covered everything; students never lose their heart; ‘Coffee House’ never close; ‘Paikari’ (wholesale) rates never jump up; Bengalis never think without engineering and medical; trams and tram-lines never replace; traffic never stops; college square never become oval; hand-driven rickshaws and there are many more junks and jargons.
As usual, when the crowd has been packed by regular and strangers; in an unusual moment, a spark creates that would have been cause big flash, and then to fire. But it never happens. A high-pressure eye-contact or word-exchange may exists for an instance or 1-2 seconds; the both ‘candidates’ become cooler to coolest after a few steps of walking in the opposite direction. A few minutes of ‘PNPC’ (talking politically)can be heard from the work-less daily-trouble-making-persons, and within some busy moments and movements, these are all finished. Then it is a normal life.
Students from different categories, visit the same or different stalls and make a query about their subject-matter-dependent books. If it is available, then okay; if it is not, then also okay; the queried person start moving for the next stall or the next stall or the stall, after 5-6 stalls. Each stall has its unique name and number. The number of the popular stalls are remembered by the students for their ease. But sometimes, the book-vendors assured the students or customers to wait for few minutes so that they can bring the particular book queried for. This is an excellent process, but in that case, the discount you can get is a bit less compared to direct purchasing. This is a type of ‘via’ purchasing. And this is why, some customers avoid this for their benefit and go through the cumbersome process. You can also find here weighted copies, I mean, here, in College Street, copies are sold not by single piece but the number of copies you need, is weighted by weighing machine. And this brings you the cheapest copies.
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The most strange thing that you can see while entering the market through the plain-not plain surfaces of ‘galis’ (tiny areas), you must hear, “ Hello Sir, can you hear me? Which book do you need? You can get all books here. Hello !!! please tell. What happened?”.
So interesting; isn’t it? But when you ask them your choice, most of the time they do not have the book; in fact, many times they are unable to bring the book. Moreover, they prefers you another writer’s book with the same title and assured you that the book is the best in its nature. If you are an old regular visitor, you smile and walking your way; if you are new to College Street, you will be cheated, and it is confirm. I have this experience also. When I was new to College Street, I was also cheated many times, and then my intelligence grow up about college street, and now it is impossible to cheat me ever.
So, the book purchasing process becomes restless till evening comes, when a shy red look from the great sun, indicates that She is tired and losing her energy. We smiles; now the time to think of some different attitudes rather than the printed, colorful books.
