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on his trips. In 2015, Maa and Puta visited Kolkata and stayed at my home at Barasat after finishing the recording of Maa’s album. My mother later told me that Puta always had a notebook in his hand and was scribbling in it now and then. Imon informed later that he infused bits and pieces of the stories of the people he came across during that trip in one of his books.

 In the limited time, I have known him and interacted with him, I can easily say without a doubt that he always cared for people with a good heart. He never cared for their materialistic, flashy possessions. I found out that Puta was proud that I went to Guwahati alone with only a few clothes and my laptop, for my marriage and told everyone, “Joydeep has come alone for his marriage. This is what I did back then and now he will do too”. At our marriage reception, he wore the jacket my sister gave to me, and afterward, he kept it with him because it became his favorite. This is how he was, a writer, a master of his craft, a dynamic wild person, whose values were always rooted to the ground. It broke my heart to see him in declined health. I wish I had more time to get to know him.

 Now and then, I and Imon talk about him and think about what he would do if we could bring him here. We imagine scenarios where he would walk in the Negev desert and see the ways of nomadic life of the Bedouins, or if he could roam around the Jewish settlements in the desert. Oh, what incredible stories he would have brewed with his brilliant talent.

(Postdoctoral researcher at Ben Gurrion University of Negev, Israel)

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