Remembering the Past

A loving cousin brother, Nongmaithem Manihar Singh , maternal cousin decades not seen after his death I went to his house at Yairipok Bazar to attend his Asti Sanchay. That country market place miles away from my house in Imphal I have not gone since long, during my childhood long ago when I went there many times it was a small market place busy only at dusk selling mainly agricultural produces. At the time of the death of his mother, my aunt more than two decades ago it was still a small traditional marketplace. My mother her sister died more than two decades earlier than her. After they died our relationship distanced long we have not seen one another. That day the setting of the rural landscape there seen much changed than last seen decades ago. The market place far bigger than before, modernised and crowded . I recollecting then it's old days, and my life long past there. 20.01.2021