After many days we met Ranu from our class. On seeing me, he came running shouting “Anu Anu”. Once in the class Polapine mixed him and me up and called Anu Ranu Panu, Anu Ranu Panu. But there was no reason to be angry about it. All of a sudden, I dropped my daughter off at school in the morning and entered Captain’s World for breakfast. While I’m eating breakfast and scrolling through Facebook, I hear anu anu scream.
While taking the news, I heard a foreign NGO’s Homera-Chomera type officer. I was very hurt when I heard it. “Working in an NGO, I can do something for people is a great satisfaction.” I stopped talking. Ranu is a left-wing student leader. What was the central leader of a communist student organization. When I was the president or secretary of Bangladesh Kuwait Friendship Hall, three or four female students used to come to Madhur canteen in Newmarket blue sky.
We used to call her Netri Afa. We were given all of regular communism. NGOs are said to be the fifth force of imperialism. We used to finish counting the leaves of the neem tree in front of the Central Library while listening to his lectures on the World Bank, IMF and NGOs. But at that time I had enough respect for Ranu and her communist student organization. Whether they can or not, they talk about people’s rights, no one says it for the hungry people, they say it.
That Ranu Kina has now joined the brokering of imperialism itself. However, when Professor Yunus received the Nobel Prize, he came to us and gave a lecture, ‘You see, they have given the Nobel Prize to a usurer.’ Again, he himself said, of course, what more can be expected from the Nobel Committee. They have been enmity with communism for life. This led to a fight with Rohan. At the same time, we were left to listen to the noise of Grameen Bank. At the end we made a law, no one in the group can talk about Grameen Bank, Noble, Yunus. Ranu did not talk to us for two days in anger and sadness.
I thought that Feroze Bhai must be responsible for Ranu’s downfall. That probably brought Ranu back from the communist cycle to the capitalist cycle. Otherwise, such a Uturn can give people? Feroze Bhai means Ranu’s son-in-law. Incidentally I was responsible for this incident. That is, I was the cause of their marriage. That is another strange story. Feroze Bhai is the elder brother of my hall. A pretty innocent bunch of guys. Good people, good results. Then he worked in a foreign bank.
So Feroze Bhai is looking for a bride for marriage. I said, ‘Will you marry our Ranu?’ I said it jokingly. Because I still couldn’t imagine Feroze Bhai with Ranu. Ranu Tukhor leader all day march meeting politics is about these on the other hand Feroze is absolutely good person. Purely selfish creatures of the bovine type of innocent nature. I could not imagine that Feroze bhai would take such a girl seriously. Saw Ranu twice in campus with me. Ranu is quite beautiful despite her progressive leftist politics. She looked and sounded as soft as ice cream and as soft as winter morning cake. Both the nose and the throat are like flutes. Interesting enough except for Netripart. Before that he had a love too. With a leader of his party. It didn’t last long. We don’t know why. Ranu never talked to us about her personal love affairs. Even if we brought up the conversation, he would deliberately ignore it.
Seeing his seriousness, I said to myself, ‘Politics is over, Maiya, think again and take a decision.’ I saw him being more positive about this. He said, “There is nothing to worry about. He no longer does selfish politics. Politics of communism. Needy people politics. For people whose hearts cry, after all they are good human beings. Hearing Feroze Bhai’s speech, I swallowed hard. Ranu, however, gave her opinion on the news after thinking about it enough. And Feroze Bhai has a crush in the form of a girl. Thus was solved the only thorny task of my life. After their marriage I moved to Rajshahi with a job in an agro company. Out of sight out of mind. I no longer had the opportunity to witness how two strange characters came together in the strange play of nature and spent their days. After returning to Dhaka, no further inquiries were made.
After meeting Ranu, the same relationship was formed again. My old curiosity about them rekindled. How Soviet Russia and America live together!
They are two very busy people. However, Feroze Bhai would occasionally call and say come, let’s chat. And I try to find out each and every corner of their married life.
One day he said, let’s go to Shale. Innocent cowherds like Feroze Bhai have become quite bohemian now. Usually goes to bars. Lured by the free beer, I said, let’s go. I asked, Ranu does not say anything about this.
Ranu also drinks alcohol. He said that Marx or Lenin had no restrictions on this. My religion has rather prohibitions, why I don’t obey.
After many days, one day Ranu called and asked to supply a maid. I said, I don’t do girl supply business.
I finally got a girl to save me from the pain of calling again and again. A girl who has no father. girl from my village I convinced the girl’s mother. I thought it would be good. Ranu is a man following the ideals of Marx-Lenin. So there is nothing to stress with a girl in their house.
Then one day I was passing over Gulshan. No conversation for several days. I thought I would go to their house. Let’s see how Soviet Russia and America eat grass in one cow. I thought I would call. At the end I thought, suddenly go and see what the situation is. Moreover, now they have Jhinuk, that is, the maid, in their house. At least if they don’t have Jhinuk they will. You can see how happy he is.
I don’t know good luck or bad luck. They are not really at home. Locked at home. They have not been home for four days. The maid has Jhinuk. spoke from within. They went abroad. Jhinuk cannot tell which country it has been to. He said, what a difficult name, I don’t remember.
I asked from the other side of the lock, you are not afraid to stay alone!
I am afraid, such a big house, if there is an accident. The girl cried in fear. I was not afraid on the first day. Can’t sleep for many nights after that. Someone actually, with a lot of hope, he rushes to understand that Ranu has come. They have four more days to come. Jhinuk will spend these days counting every second.
I thought I would call them. But I don’t like that anymore. Instead, I gave some gratuity to the gate keeper and said, “Brother, be careful.” Give me a call if you need anything else.
I went back to the way I used to say ‘Allah Allah’. At least there should be no problem in these four days. Bandra danger in this Dhaka city. If something happens, if there is a fire in the building, there is a short circuit! If an earthquake I could not sleep for four days with this tension. If something happens, I won’t be able to show my face in the village.
On the fourth day, before Ranu came, I again appeared in front of their locked house.
That day I saved the girl, left her in the village and survived.
