Day 25
A true Bong woman idolises Suchitra Sen, exults in the melody of Rabindra sangeet, her heart flutters even today at a glimpse of Uttam Kumar(her desire for that perfect man always and each time ends with him), can give up everything for those tempting roadside puchkas, her passion for bindis is evident all over her dresser’s mirror, always prefers a book over the television’s remote and a maar haather maccher jhaal (mom made mustard fish) over all the delicacies of the world. To sum up , a Bengali and her love for fish are inseparable. ..be it the white porcelain fish shaped plate she picked to serve up her fish fingers in a party or the fish wall hanging over her dinner table or a fish shaped pot to hold her favourite plant or fish prints on her saree.
This one is a black beauty with a beige border and pallu on which madhubani style fish motifs swell up the heart of the proud Baangali woman draping it. With this I finally managed a quarter century. A long way to go.