Selected Texts from The Legacy of Samaresh Mazumdar

Renowned Author Samaresh Mazumdar with selected text of the famous Trilogy: (Uploading soon). This one from "The Legacy."

There was a heap of sand at a corner of the house. After taking lunch Ani used to play there all alone, while building the tunnel . Quite a bit far reaching sandy topsoil, undisturbed and burrowed in, were easily accessible for a tranquil hideout. On this side the new construction placed a soothing cold shadow, quite a bit cold chills. The work order for the door and the window frame are all a done deal now.
The casting was finished a few days ago. The curing for the roof was progressing fast.
Ishmel Mia knew that labor was cheap here, so a bunch of laborers were called in. Groups of laborers casually happened in the morning shift and left around the twilight hour. Sekhar Babu deployed the laborers to plant numerous trees inside the open arena of the permitted perimeter. They all were rejuvenated and quenched and deeply rooted once again. Ani loved them, and these three guava trees and banana trees along the perimeter of the land area were all planted recently.

That noontime witnessed Ani completely on the other side, using the burrowed way, he simply made his way on the other side of the sandy mountains. Sandy grains embracing all over the body, Ani suddenly overheard a voice, whispering. He assumed that Grandpa for some reason was roaming around this area, perhaps. In case he could discover Ani, with sand particles all over the body, here, a definite time out would be waiting there, inevitably. Beforehand Ani was scolded for soiling the sand. Like a thief, while crawling toward the opposite side, Ani overheard the whispering voice, once again. Nope, this was not Grandpa's voice. Talking in Hindi. The boy was arguing something, lowering his voice and the girl was responding relentlessly in negation. Ani did not return after all these. To find out these characters, he crawled there to proceed upfront. Toward the very last end, the sandy heap had an unintentionally large hollowed out area, Ani gazed on the other side, placing his face cautiously. He discovered a seasoned labor, aged around his midlife, was talking to a laborer, a newcomer with a lean and thin body. The newcomer was nervous and frequently gazing both ways to see if there was anyone visible there checking back on them. The tanned labor mentioned in the first place was not an easy one to agree with. Suddenly the lean and thin labor was agitated to throw a tantrum on his chest, hurting and boxing, there. Something was truly mischievous with both the laborers; Ani could realize that. Ani was puzzled to decide if he should shout there to call for help.

And then the seasoned suntanned labor kissed the lean and thin one, suddenly. To his utter astonishment Ani realized that just after kissing, the labor duo transformed ....
As she melted!

Not throwing tantrums, neither punching back with wild mayhem, rather the reflex was coaxing her to embrace the labor deeply. And his bare hand was caressing the entire body, slowly, toiling there, compassionately. Now there is no point for a call to seek help as the lover girl succumbed, seemingly, as the response did not seem noisy at all, Ani could realize only this.

With a dimmed hue everywhere, this seemed that the lover duo was undressing the cover of the holy ritualistic book, and Ani was able to see the flipside. The dark colored hard covered body of the book was a mystic, with hazy sign postage of xanthosis as if it should be the only option after uncovering genesis. The worker's hand was drawn to the uncovered breast eagerly which was not perceivable from Ani's side. Suddenly a distant voice was passing by, as if someone was calling for someone. Within minutes, they both had a prompt response, with all rusty reflexes, the female labor was coming back to rational senses, and the male counterpart was responding to the outsider call, and after a while left her.

The dress was lying there, abandoned on the floor, quickly she lifted that up to wear that one. Ani perceived that there were marks around the uncovered breast area, Ani never witnessed ladies with uncovered breasts, from a close spot like this. While dressing, the girl was sensing her touch around the marks, compassionately. After a while she left the spot. While leaving, she did spit on the sand, while she was completely unaware of Ani's presence, anywhere nearby.

After the girl left, Ani, a dumbstruck figure, was still lying there, with piles of sand everywhere. He realized that they were committing something that was a felon to be practiced in public. Why did the girl act up in panic at first? Why did she punch? Why did she seem numb in response when he did bite around the unearthed breast, and did nothing other than loving him back?

Suddenly Ani could remember the young Nina, the junior most one of Taw babu. She was one year younger than him. She could hardly go anywhere outside her house. But once firmly held, used to start a loud outcry in pain.
Will she have the same reaction in a situation? Like this one?
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Lying close to his mother, Ani felt sleep deprived. Her smell, her soft hand was taming him, calming him down, like an old infatuation.
At a point Madhuri asked her son, lowering her voice,
"Why did you cry so loudly in the morning? Everyone was scolding me!"
The dimmed light inside the room was something surreal. Closely lying beside, Ani responded from his mother's breast, "Why did you talk? Do you not know?" Madhuri responded by embracing Ani, holding close.

Ani could remember the laborer he saw in the morning.

He asked gently, "Ma, if I bit your breast, would you feel pain?"

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