"Chant the name Hari." "Go slow, brother." "Chant the name Hari." "My..." "My..." "Hold yourself together, sister." "Be calm." "I have no one else left." "Don't feel that way, sister." "We are all with you." "I have lost everything." "How will I live now?" "We are all with you, sister." " How will I live?" "Get down." "Go on, right." "Sit down there." "Is this your first interview?" " No." "Are you aware of the type of questions they ask?" "It's not very predictable." "Will they ask in English?" " They may, probably." "Then the answer should also be in English..." " Yes, English." "Yes, naturally." "Do you do mending?" " Why?" "I have trousers that need mending." " No we don't do mending." " Why?" " We don't sew used clothes." "I'll leave them here and go." " No you can try some small shop." "Here you are." " How much?" " Ten rupees." "Your name, please." " Siddartha Choudhury." "Could you show us your papers, please?" " Yes, sir." "Would you like to?" " How old are you?" " I'm just over 25, sir." "You are a B. Sc?" " Yes, sir. - When did you graduate?" " 1966." "Have you been idle ever since?" "No, sir." "I was at the medical college for 2 years." "What were you doing there?" "Studying, sir." " Only for two years?" "Yes, sir." "What made you give up medicine?" "Did you suddenly lose interest in medicine?" " No, sir." "I lost my father." "I see." " What's your aim in life?" "Right now it's to find a job, sir." "But the job you've applied for has nothing to do with medicine." "No, sir." "But I also did botany for my science degree." "Do you like flowers?" " Not unconditionally." "Some I like, some I don't." "Does the term mitochondria suggest anything to you?" "It's a botanical term, sir." "Mitochondria are small threadlike bodies in cytoplasm." "Who was the prime minister of England at the time of independence?" "Whose independence, sir?" " Our independence." "Atkins." " What would you regard as the most outstanding and significant event of the last decade?" "The war in Vietnam, sir." " More significant than the landing on the moon?" " I think so, sir." "Could you tell us why you think so?" "Because the moon landing..." "You see, we weren't entirely unprepared for the moon landing." "We knew that it had to come some time." "We knew about the space flights, the great advances in space technology." "So we knew it had to happen." "I'm not saying it wasn't a remarkable achievement but it wasn't unpredictable." "The fact that they did land on the moon." "Do you think that the war in Vietnam was unpredictable?" "Not the war itself." "But what it has revealed about the Vietnamese people." "About their extraordinary power of resistance." "Ordinary people, peasants and no one knew that they had it in them." "This isn't a matter of technology, it's just plain human courage, and takes your breath away." "Are you a communist?" "I don't think one has to be one in order to admire Vietnam, sir." "That doesn't answer my question." "However you may go now." "Listen." "This is broken." "Hey!" " I've been watching you for some time." "Why do you look so depressed?" "No, I've been walking in the sun and I've got a headache." "Don't you have a job yet?" "Are you still applying?" " Yes." "In the end, the time will come when you'll start believing that you don't have a goal within yourself." "And that's not true." "I know you." "While you're still unemployed why don't you..." "You were active in the union in your college days." "If you are with us then you will be able to do something." "The party has a lot of odd jobs to be attended to." "If you remain like this and roam in the sun then both your mind and your health will be undermined." "What?" "Will you come?" "Or is it that you've no faith in politics?" "No, brother Naresh." "I need a job." "Otherwise the problem is that..." " Your sister is employed, isn't it?" "Is it hurting your pride?" " No, papa didn't leave much for us." "That's true." "It is not possible for a honest man to do business and leave something." "I know." "Why don't you join some factory?" "Do some work as a labourer." "What's wrong in that?" "These days..." " No more advice please." "No more advice please." "So many people have given me so much advice that my mind is stuffed with advice and is choking." "You're a nice person and I admire you, but still I'm telling you." "Either stop your lectures or go away." "I don't like hearing your speeches any more." "Would you like to get out of Calcutta?" "Would it be okay if I get you a job outside Calcutta?" "What job?" " Medical representative." "Outside Calcutta!" " That's why I didn't tell you before." "Dr. Suren Das." "Do you know him?" "National Pharmaceuticals." "I know him well." "If you want, I can give you a letter." "Let me talk with him." "One tablet, please." "Can I get some water?" " Water?" "How much?" " 60 paise." "What do you want?" "The 1970-71 budget comes up with proposals to stimulate growth, export drive and import substitution." "Additional taxes on certain luxury and consumer goods and an increase in wealth tax and income tax rates for higher income groups." "Relief with the rise of the exemption limit to 5000 rupees on income tax and a greater sense of security to low income groups through revised pension proposals." "New taxes are expected to fetch an additional revenue of 1700 million rupees." "An explosion!" "Let's run!" "Look what happened to this watch." "It fell from my hand." "The balance has broken." " How much will it cost?" " 850." "Okay give it to me." "The lymphatics of the female breast, if you remember, begins with the flexes around the gland itself." "Now this flexes which we note is quite different from the lymphatics which drain the central region of the gland." "But the gland at its central region is..." "Oh!" "What a beautiful place." "Wow!" "This is wonderful." "This is where the world started." "This is where the magic is." "Great." "Look at the cow." "Delightful!" "Wow!" "What a place!" " Fantastic!" "We come to Calcutta and we like every one of you people." "You are truly our friends." "Who's that?" " Open the door, this is Siddartha." "Who is Siddartha?" " Stop playing the fool and open the door." "Come in." " Where is Sibu?" " He has gone to get cigarettes he will be back soon." "Oh!" "What a day!" " What happened?" "What can happen?" "The same routine." "That's the problem." "Time doesn't want to pass at all." "Walking all day in the sun." "Tell me, what are you doing?" "What are you doing?" "This is a highly skilled job." "You're stealing the funds meant for the Red Cross?" "Hey, Siddartha." "This is not good." "Give it to me." "Where did you think your Red Cross got the money?" "All day I walked in the sun." "Don't I have a share in it?" "All of you..." "Hell!" "All of you." "I come here only so that I can relax for some time and you..." "You relax." "Who is stopping you?" "If you want to sleep then I have a drug." "How low you've stooped." " The whole country is going down, brother." "If I don't stoop down then do you want me suspended in space?" "You're already the son of rich parents and you hail from a famous family." "What do you know about my family?" "Do you know about my uncle." "Do you know about my grandpa?" "Moreover, what relationship is there between this and my family?" "Two books have been stolen." " What books?" " Yes, the books on those two subjects." "If I don't get the books then I can't pass the exams." "How will I get so much money in such a short time, now?" "How does he play, Baren?" " Left out." " It's Sibhu." "Open the door." "Kleptomaniac number one." "Hey, how long have you been here?" " Just now." "Stop standing and chatting there." "Close the door." "Take this." "You also have one." " Thanks." "Are you still on it?" "What 's wrong with this chap?" "It is becoming more difficult day by day." "I'm thinking of vacating the house." "Vacating the house!" "He can't move a step and he is thinking of vacating the house." " Are you his advisor?" " Ask him." "Is that so, buddy?" " Leave that." "You too!" "Is that so?" "He is trying to hook a girl." "He is asking me, how do I proceed." "Tell me step by step." "Listen friend, this is too much." "This is gross injustice." "Then what did you tell him?" " I told him..." "Hey don't say anything." "Stop." " Leave me." "If you play the fool with me then I will spill all the beans." "You carry on with the work." "Don't tell him anything." "Wait, another 2 rupees." "2 rupees, Stop all that nonsense and do it fast." "Come soon, I'm getting impatient." "The delay did help." "Look at this." "Some more money." "You can have them if you like." "What's that?" " Hey." " Tell me. - Will you lend me this?" " What?" "This magazine." " Buddy, this has resale value, do you know that?" "Ten rupees per copy." "If I give you that you'll sell it and pocket the money." "Why do you take everyone to be in your category?" "Look, I don't believe the unemployed." "So you don't intend to come out it seems." "No, sir." "I've important work to do." "Hey, will you buy me lunch?" "Then we'll go to a movie." "A movie again?" " Why, have you already been to one?" "I went into a cool place and started catching up on some sleep and suddenly from nowhere there was this boom." "A bomb!" " Another explosion?" " Yes, in the Light House." "Then the movie got interrupted." " Was anyone injured?" "I didn't see." "I walked out and came over." "In our place there will be no explosion." "Oh!" "It's your film club." "A Swedish film." "No cutting." "Shall we go in?" " We won't get a seat." "Come, let's go in and see." "Let's go." "Without my watch, I can't keep track of the time." "Why?" "Are you in a hurry to go somewhere?" "I've to meet Naresh Pal." "Are you trying to get into politics?" "Only that's not included." "Then why go to brother Naresh?" "His friend seems to have a pharmaceuticals company and probably is hiring people." "He'll give me a letter." "Let me see." "I don't understand your situation at all." "Your sister got a job but you're not able to find one." "Have you seen my sister?" " Have I not?" "Then?" "Why wouldn't she get a job?" "Academic qualification is not the only qualification." "In that case what is wrong with your personality?" "It has the stamp of intelligence." " Who wants intelligence?" "You understand everything and pretend to be a fool." "These days the weaker sex is the stronger sex." "Have you seen how confidently they walk?" "There you're right." "At times they give us an inferiority complex." "Do you know?" "If I do something then I'll get a job." "I have to answer the questions in the interview in a calculated manner." "To date I haven't done those calculations." "From now on I'll do that." "For the last year I've had these doubts." "I was only waiting for proof." "If I hadn't gotten proof then I wouldn't have come to you." "I have come so that you can know about it." "I don't know what impression you've gotten about your daughter." "I don't know how you've brought her up." "She has destroyed my house, my family and shattered it." "I've endured this enough." "No more." "I can't." "I can't bear it anymore." "Whatever it may be, you find a solution for this." "Otherwise I will have to do something about it myself." "What's the matter?" "Why are all of you so gloomy?" "Is your interview over?" " Forget my interview." "Who was that woman?" "Mama!" "Who?" " Ask him." "Uncle." "Mrs. Sanyal." " Who is she?" " Wife of Topu's boss, who else?" "Did she come complaining about her?" "It's ten and still she is not home." "What else will she do?" "Does that mean that she's doing something with her boss?" "It could be the pressure of work." "If there is the pressure of work then why doesn't she inform us when she's leaving the office?" "How long can a woman wait alone?" "That is different." "But if you tell me that you believe that... neurotic woman, then I will portray a different character." "Just like that a woman can walk in and talk all rubbish about my sister, this will not be tolerated." "I'm telling you all one more thing." "Don't bring up this topic at all when Topu comes back from work." "All these problems come looking for us." "That is no evidence." "Now the boss's wife comes complaining about her." "It is all because of you." "If the daughter has some pressure then what is the son's excuse?" "Can't he come home early?" "Maybe he is going for his studies." "But all I know is that he has stopped his studies." "Still he may be doing some studies." "He was the best boy in his class." "He will not remain the best boy for long." "Politics is not for students." "There is a time for everything." "You stay in the house because you like it." "What happened?" "You had an interview?" "Tell me how it went." "I will not." "Tell me." "Why were you late coming home today?" " I will not tell." "My not telling you and your telling are not the same." "No one comes here and spreads scandal about me." "Oh!" "What did that woman say?" "Did you know that woman would come?" " No." "I've heard about her and know what type of a woman she is." " I see." "What did she say, let me know." "I only heard the last of it and that's enough." "Don't you know what was discussed?" " No, and that is not the issue." "How would I know?" "I'm not responsible." "Are you not responsible?" "Not at all." "Okay." "You may not be the person to blame but someone is to blame which you're not disclosing." "But if he is responsible then straighten it out." "How?" " There are many ways to do that." "For example he can be given a good thrashing." "I feel like laughing when you talk of thrashing." "You don't have to laugh now, I'm dead serious." "What's the advantage in thrashing an innocent person like him?" "Innocent!" "A manager in such a big private firm and innocent?" "Whom are you fooling?" "Okay, then do whatever you like." "Aren't you feeling bad about it at all?" "Can't you see how ugly the issue is?" "Aren't you able to sense how mama must be feeling about it?" "Does mama want me to leave the job?" "Naturally." "Anyway, the job keeps you working till ten at night." "...you must leave that job anyhow." "Today the office closed at five thirty." " Five thirty?" "Yes, He took me to Narendrapur to see his new house." "He, meaning your boss?" " Yes." " Why?" "There were three others with us." "Why did you go to see that house?" "What do you mean by why?" "He called me so I went." "After a hard day's work?" "What can I do?" " What do you mean by what you can do?" "Can't you refuse to go?" " No." "What do you mean by no?" "Is it some slavery or compulsion?" "Starting next month I'm becoming the boss's PA. 200 rupees increment." "The rascal is taking advantage of that." "That bloody son of a pig and a scoundrel." "Brother!" "Brother, what a beautiful bird this is." "Where?" "There!" "Wonderful!" "What's the name of that bird?" "Let me freshen up first." "I'll take exactly five minutes." "Don't get worked up over everything." " Okay." "Tell me first, how was the interview?" "Horrible." "Topu?" "Is your boss staying in Alipore?" "I won't say." "What happened?" " Nothing." "A fight." "Do you have a cut?" " Something like that." "Listen." "Do you have some money?" "Why?" " I need it." "What for?" "I have to finish someone." "An antisocial element." "Why ask me?" "Go and make your own." "It is necessary." "Otherwise the crisis will worsen." "Crisis!" " Nothing political." "You have become strange." "Always searching for a job has turned your life into something." "Let me do what I'm doing." "Have I ever lectured on anything concerning you?" "Do you remember this?" "You gave this to me." "You don't know that I had to sell two medical books to buy this." "You don't know how much you've changed in these two years." "Two years ago I didn't need a job." " Job?" "Do you know what will be your condition if you get a job?" "I will be a copier in the bureaucratic machine." "I feel when I think about that." "You know very well what you're doing is not correct." "Getting a job is not my ambition." "But can one only follow a single path?" "Exactly, that is what is required." "You don't have a path at all." "You yourself don't know which way you want to go." "You're standing in one place and wasting your time chatting." "Tonu." "Do you remember that bird?" "Bird!" " Let it be." "You're not supposed to know it." "Whom do you want?" " Is Mr. Sanyal home?" "This slip..." " Okay." "Come inside and sit down." "Why are you standing?" "Sit down." "Are you Sutopa's brother?" " Yes." "Is she sick?" "No, but she is feeling the strain." "Feeling the strain?" "Yes." "Your sis, she says that she is feeling the strain?" "No, but we can tell." "She is getting frail." "But I didn't notice that." "You always see her hence you may not have noticed." "Doesn't the word 'always' sound a little aggressive?" "Anyway, we can tell." "Whatever you're trying to say if you don't say it clearly it's difficult to understand." "She never told me that she is feeling the strain." "In fact, she seems quite happy." "She is very smart, hard working." "As for overtime she may have had to do it for a few days, that I don't deny but doing it for more than one hour, I don't think so." "Have you gotten a job?" "Instead of your sister leaving her job wouldn't it be better that you find a job?" "In your company." "No, I can recommend somewhere else." "You sit down." "I'm due to get a trunk call at ten." "You wait and I'll give you a letter." "Who?" "Yes, I'm well." "Hello." "This is me, Sanyal speaking." "Yes." "Oh no." "I've told him already." "Everything is settled." "Catch that fellow." "He hit the child." "Catch him and beat him." "Why did you stop studying to be a doctor?" "There was problem in the house." "Naresh has written to medical representatives but there are no vacancies for medical representatives at present." "We are taking salesmen." " Salesman!" " It seems your heart is sad." "I started as a salesman myself." "If you work properly there is always the opportunity to prosper in a job." "Are you thinking that you're to carry medicines in a bag and move like a hawker?" " Is that not so?" "No, it's not like that." "Actually what you've to do is go to hospitals and dispensaries and note down their requirements in a note book." "There is a lot of traveling." "From a central place you travel around 70 to 80 miles daily." "Where is the place?" "Balurghat." "Do you know?" "It's in west Dinajpur." "The fact is that I don't want to leave Calcutta at present." "That you decide." "I can give you around ten days to make up your mind." "Yes, Siddartha." "It seems you have left everything at its pace." "What to say?" "It seems that I'm to leave Calcutta at last." "Why are you bothered about that?" "You say that you like it outside Calcutta." "That is when I go to places like Deohargh and spend a vacation there for 15 to 20 days." "But this is not like that." "It is some corner of the world and that too as a medical salesman." "I don't like it." "I don't know about you but I can't even stay for a minute outside Calcutta." "I know." "There is something about the city." "Tell me what it is?" "It's life." "It may be a tough life but we like it." "In other places either you're dead or you're burnt out." "What a condition." "When I think of leaving Calcutta I feel sick however they will not permit us to stay here." "Tunu is right." "There is no way out other than a revolution." "You will start a revolution." " No, I will not but if it starts then I will fight in it." "Will you fire a gun?" "Will you throw hand grenades?" "At times when my head gets hot then I think that I should do all that." "It is all your imagination." "When it comes to actually doing it you will not be able to do anything." "You feel that way?" " There are two types of human beings." "Thinkers who only think." "Then there are the doers who can only do." "I'm the second type." "I'm not into thinking and all that." "I'll do what has to be done." "You will only think about that which you'll not do." "Siddartha!" "At the moment I'm thinking where to eat." "That too from your money." "Leave that to me, brother." "Hey, what are you doing?" "The growth of my moustache is uneven." "I'm doing a little makeup to hide that." "Both of you are having fun." "Only these few months, brother." "Then we will cease to be students." "You think that he won't come?" " No chance at all." "He has fallen deeply in love." "Otherwise why go to his cousin sister's house seven days a week?" "Is he proceeding as per your house?" "His cousin has two friends." "Siben has an eye on one of them." "Must be Gayatri." "That girl has nothing in her." "She has nothing." "Do you serve monkey's brain here?" " No we don't serve monkey brains here." "You get that in Hong Kong." "If you try something strange and unique, the bill will be high." "Will mixed fried rice be okay with you?" " Yes, order that." "Then half a plate mixed fried rice." "Do you have egg foo yoong?" "Yes we serve egg foo yoong." " Good." "But first whisky and soda." " There are two kind of whisky." "Do you have Aristocrat?" " Yes." " OK." "That will do." "Oh!" "You're a teetotaler, aren't you?" "Or have you just started?" "Not yet but I think I'll start today." "Don't think a lot, otherwise everything will get spoiled." "Where did you learn to drink alcohol?" "What is there to learn?" "It is hereditary." "Does your father drink?" " Of course." "Not the medical dosage but a full dose." "Why do you think that all doctors are like Morarji Desai?" "Not so." "But your father." "This is a silly stupid notion of all of you." "Inside every human being there are ten contradictory characters." "That's true, otherwise how can you be good at studies too?" "That's fate." "Listen, if you have to fire the gun then go ahead and have it." "Cheers!" "Are you in a hurry to get back home?" " Why?" "Then I shall take you someplace." "Where?" " You'll see when you get there." "It is not what you're thinking." "Looking at you one can sense that you're thinking something." "What is it?" "About a job?" " Hell!" "No." "Can one think about a job always?" "Do we get birds in New Market?" " Birds?" "You mean chickens." " No, chicken you can get in any market." "What bird?" " I don't remember the name." "But I can recognise its call if I hear it." "Can you recognise the call in this chorus?" "Listen, what bird are you looking for?" "What?" " What bird are you looking for?" "Tell him." " I don't know the name but I recognise the call." "Talking bird?" " No, not a talking bird." "Not a talking bird but it sings very well." "Whistle the tune for him." "What's the matter?" " This is the place." "Come." "Do we have to go upstairs?" " Yes, of course there is nothing downstairs." "Adina!" "Let's drop it." " Why?" "I feel uncomfortable about the whole thing." "Why are you behaving childishly?" "I give you my word you'll not regret it." "Now come along." "Can I come in?" " No, you can't." "Come." "You can call her my friend and also call her my teacher." "A very private tutor, aren't you?" "Sit down." "Why are you standing?" "Sit down." "Make yourself at home." "Today was hard work." "An 80 year old man." "Refuses to die." "If you do the nursing then why would anybody want to die?" "What do you say?" "I'll have some water." "Can't you get it yourself?" "Get it dear." "I've walked a lot." "Will you also have some?" "Did you see her hair?" "Priceless." "I've never seen your friend before." "He has just come from Patna." "Why is he so quiet?" "He is terrified at seeing the condition of Calcutta." "That's why I told him to come along." "You have to give me five minutes." "I need to take a shower." "It's so hot." "If it becomes five and half then it will be a problem." "You're smoking all alone." "Give me one too." "She wants a cigarette." "I'm totally out." "Won't you light the cigarette for me?" "Manners." "Manners." "Thank you." "I'll be back soon." "My friend is losing patience." "I think he doesn't like me at all." "Nonsense." "His hunger is reflecting on his face." "Well brother, she is all yours." "You told me this is not like that." "Whatever you're thinking this is not..." " Whatever I'm thinking is right." "Nobody comes here to think." "Disgusting!" "You had some alcohol." "Did you feel bad after that?" "This is also like that." "Initially it may be sour." "Then after that..." " Listen, come here." "What happened?" " Come here for a moment." "I'm not able to detach the hook." "I'll be back." "Ready, steady, go." "You play now." " You wait." "Hey, Siddartha!" "Hey, Siddartha!" "Hey, Siddartha!" "Hey Mister." "This side." "Will you come and listen to me?" "What's the matter?" "Can you repair a fuse?" " Fuse?" "All the lights in the house have gone off." "There is nobody at home." "I'm feeling very scared." "I can give it a try." " Please come in." "My papa is not here and the servant has also gone out." "Where is the main?" " There, please come with me." "I don't have a torch or candle at home." "I mean..." "There, the middle one." "I brought the fuse wire." "I thought that I'll try it myself." "Then I felt nervous." "Give me the wire." "Hold the match light for me." "My hands and feet went cold in fear." "That's when I got desperate and called to you." "Oh, sorry!" "Thank god!" " My hands." "You want to wash your hands, come." "When I went to light the stove..." "Sit down." "Was this necessary?" " Why not?" "Do you recognize me?" "At first I didn't." "We met in your cousin's place." "Oh yes, Aruna." "Now I remember." "We study together." "I'm Keya Mukherjee." " Siddartha Choudhury." "I've seen you pass along this road a lot of times." "You put on a serious face gazing at the road while walking." "How long have you been in this area?" "Around one and half years." "We were in Delhi before." "Papa got transferred here." "It was a very odd way that I called you." "My mind was confused and afraid." "Today the servant chose to go to the cinema." "Now I'll take leave." "Don't misunderstand me, please." "Not at all." "Why do you unnecessarily..." "Come some other day." "Since you pass by here just drop in any day." "Okay." " If you come tomorrow evening then I'll serve you tea." "and something to go along with that also." " Let me see." "If I can, I'll come." "Okay, I'll take leave." "Is that Monu?" "Have you come home?" "Interview." "When will all this end?" "They have brought disrepute to my daughter." "This must be what enemies have done to us." "It is better I die than live like this." "Really, I don't like this at all." "I went to your boss's house today." "I went to your boss's house today." "I heard." " Don't you believe it?" "Hey Topu, don't you believe it?" "Yes." "I told him that she'll not work any more since she's feeling the strain." "I told him that every day it is 8 to 9 when she returns and she is not the type who can express herself." "It is too much for her." "Some day she might have a breakdown hence it is better that she leaves now." "He also agreed to that." "He said if that's the decision then he has nothing to say about it." "He said, she's smart, hardworking." "He praised you a lot." "Don't you believe me?" " No." "Even if it is true, still I'm not going to leave the job." "No one can force me to do that." "I will tell that to him myself tomorrow." "If he behaves badly with you, still you'll not leave the job?" "We'll see about that when he does." "His wife came and said so many things." " She will." "She is a mental case." "What about mother?" " What about her?" "Is it that her daughter is earning disrepute?" "Is that nothing to you?" "Nothing at all?" "Brother, how would it be if I get into modeling?" "Modeling?" "This modeling and you'll do it?" "This is a good profession." "They pay you well." "These days quite a lot of people are doing it." "Suppose they ask you to wear some atrocious outfit?" "Atrocious?" "What do you mean?" " I mean as good as not wearing anything." "What's wrong in that?" "My figure is so bad?" "Brother." "Come to the terrace." "Terrace?" " Come." "What's the matter?" " Put on the light." " Light?" " Put in on." "I'm learning dancing." " When?" "In the evening, after work." "You've changed." "Everyone changes." "You've also changed." "Are you going somewhere?" " I want to." "Where?" " Out of town." "Out of town, means?" " Out of town." " Out of town?" "Out of town." "There's a problem getting a proper reply from you." "Can you give me ten rupees?" "I seem to have lost my purse." " Why ask me for money?" "Ask the one who is earning." "She doesn't give." "A miser." "I asked her a few times before too." "Can I know where you're going?" "I told you." "To the village." "Why are you asking?" "Do you have any interest in this?" " I may have." "After all, you're my brother." "It would have been helpful had I got the money." "If I had the money then I would've repaired my watch." "Care for a cigarette?" "I don't smoke." "Have you decided that you'll not take the exams?" "Suddenly?" " I was thinking about your future." "You don't have to think about my future." "Are you into the revolution?" "Whatever, I will not announce it to you." "Do you know?" "You may be killed by a police bullet." "What do you think?" "Brother, come here and see." " What is it?" " Come and see." "In your childhood you used to see chickens being killed." "What is proved by that?" "Chicken meat has always been my favorite." "What next?" " I don't know." "Then?" "In the olden days do you know how the public was?" "When the widows were burnt alive  so many people watched the fun." "In the times of the French revolution when the aristocrats were caught and beheaded in the guillotine many people stood and watched." "They placed the head below and then released the thing from the top." "That's all." "You!" "Hey, are you unwell?" "No." "I'm well" "Why are you saying you're well?" "What time is it?" "Why do you ask?" "What time will it be?" "It will be ten." "The radio stopped just now." "How can your head be all right?" "You walk a lot in the sun and then get sick." "How are you?" " Today I'm well. - What do you mean by 'today I'm well'?" "Yesterday I had a sudden fever." "What?" " Yes, that's why I couldn't come yesterday." "Oh, I had invited you yesterday, didn't I?" "My friend suddenly landed yesterday I went to see a movie with her." "Lucky that you didn't come." "What movie?" " Useless." "Elvis Presley." "He is her favorite." "Will you have some tea?" "Did the fuse burst again?" " What?" "Did the fuse burst again?" " No." "How funny it was that day!" " Yes, more like fiction." "It's of course as you said." "There is something wrong with you." " No." "You can tell me if you are sick." "I know medicine too." " What?" "Are you a doctor?" "I was almost one and then I didn't." " Meaning?" "I studied for two years and then dropped out." " Why?" "My father died and then..." "My father has come it seems." "Papa, my friend Siddartha Choudhury." "Papa." "Aunt." "Do you have some medicine for a headache?" "Let me see." " I don't need anything, dear." " Why?" "All the way you were complaining of a headache and now you say this." "It's a like headache." " It won't do you any harm." "Sit down." "Do you study with Kuku?" " No." "Whose procession was it today?" "Which party?" "Do you know?" " I don't know?" "We were stranded in one place for an hour." "We just couldn't move." " Where was it?" "Where was it?" "Tell me." "Kyd street." " No, not Kyd street." "Then why do you ask me?" "You know I don't have any road sense." "I had it somewhere and it took me time to find it." "Such a big tablet." "I can't swallow it." "It will not go down my throat at all." "What tablet, let me see." " Saridon." "Have this." "The mechanism of swallowing or dignitation as we call it is a complicated but a very interesting process." "Well, it really starts with the action of..." " Have you swallowed it?" "What are you doing?" "Studying?" " No." "Have you finished your studies?" " Yes." "Are you employed?" " No, But I will be soon." "Why are the young men in this condition these days?" "Where are they off to?" "What do they want?" "Frustration starts at a young age for them." "There is an age for frustration." "Once they work hard in life and when they don't get the desired results then frustration starts." "You're all still students." "It is madness." "Why is this happening?" "Where is all this unrest leading to?" "Papa, I'm going out." " Where?" " Just like that." "Will you take the car?" " No, I'll go by the bus." "Come." "Papa talks a lot." "At that age all of us might talk like that." "You don't know." "I hope not." "I feel bad about it." "What is the meaning in seeing the darker side of everything?" "I like this a lot." "In the car you feel very closed off." "Have you used it?" "How wonderful it is." " Have you seen that?" "No, I told you that I've seen nothing." "Then I'll take you there." " How?" "One of my friends works there." "I'll tell him." "I brought you here and see how much you've got to spend." "I'm not so poor." "Let me get a job and I'll give you a better treat." "Is it a job in Calcutta?" "One is in Calcutta and the interview is on Tuesday." "The other one is almost ready." "I can take it but I don't want to." "Let us see how many years we are in Calcutta." "Is your father's job a transferable one?" "Yes, Income Tax." "The one you addressed as aunty is she your real aunty?" " My mother's sister." "She has nothing in common with my mother." "She doesn't appear like her sister at all." "Your mother is not alive?" "No, she died when I was 7 years old." "It would've been great if you'd become a doctor." "Will you study medicine?" " Me?" "Oh no!" "You have to cut and dissect dead bodies." "That has to be done, of course." " Tell me why?" "You can know a lot." "Like bones, flesh, nerves, arteries." "From any dead body?" "Because all of them are basically the same unless it is abnormal." "The gentleman sitting there the one with the black suit." "Are he and I basically the same?" "You are more or less the same but there is a little difference in the fact that you're a woman and he is a man." "That woman, who is sitting with her back to us." "She?" "More or less the same but she has something more than you." "Fat!" "Even if it is the same there is a lot of difference." "They can't be the same." "That can never be." "The difference in condition and then there is education, temperament then there is appearance too." "How much difference there is in the eyes themselves." "You see some eyes and you feel that he is a good person." "Of course, but it does mean that he is good since you feel that he seems to be a good man." "There could be a mistake." "It is better that there is no mistake." "Tomorrow is the interview." " I know." "You will surely get this job." " I hope so." "If you don't get it, will you go outside Calcutta?" "I don't feel like it but..." "If you go away then I will also not stay here." "Where will you go?" " Delhi." "I will stay there to do my studies." "I'll stay in a friend's place." "And your father?" " He will stay here." "He is getting married to the aunt." "Let's go." "At times I think that I should accept her" "Earlier I called her aunty." "Now I'll have to call her mama." "But my grief for my mother comes and stops me." "It is fortunate the fuse went off that day." "Will you write letters?" " You write to me first." " Naturally." "If you write then I'll surely reply." "Will you stop meeting me?" "I may have to stay away for a long time." " Now I think I'll keep meeting you." "But..." "Mama, I'm leaving." " Wait a moment, son." "Why do you do these things?" "You know it's no use." "Brother." " There is nothing wrong in it." "Son." "You will surely get the job." "Just like I got one." "Do well and see to it that you don't lose your temper." "Siddartha Choudhury." "Can I ask you something, brother?" " Tell me." "Has the selection already been made internally?" "What can I say about it?" "No I mean that..." "You tell us what you know." "What's your number?" " 71" " Three times is 213." "It will be three hours from now when your chance will come." "In the beginning it will be for 5 minutes." "Then it will keep decreasing to 1 or 1.5 minutes." "That's how it is." "Brother, the vacancy is for four and see how many people they have called for the interview." "Chanchal Mukherjee." "His job is here for sure." " How tall is he?" "Say around 6 feet." "I'm five feet six and he is taller than me by 6 inches." "Why do you worry?" "They might prefer only shorter ones." "What's the time?" " It's ten past ten." "Brother, listen." " Did you call me?" " Yes, what questions did they ask?" "It's the same." " If you tell us then it might be useful to us." "A little of history, a little of geography and some politics." "What were the questions?" " Where is Bonn?" "What did you say?" " The capital of Germany." "Don't make so much noise." "The sir has said that if there is so much noise then the interview shall be stopped." "His master's voice." " Yes, something like that." "It's alright but very strange." "Biphul Chatterjee." "They should've made some arrangement for sitting since there are so many people." " That's true." "Out of the two fans one is not working." " Like this if we have to work for hour after hour then we will be finished." "Mihir Chakravorty." "What happened?" " What happened?" "Give him some fresh air." "Get some water." " Where is a glass?" "What happened?" "Has someone fainted?" "Yes, a person just now fell down unconscious." "Move." "Let him lie down." "Take him to that side." "When I saw that person I felt that he was sick." "Shall I go and meet the bosses?" " What?" "They have called so many people for an interview and they have the responsibility to make some seating arrangements for all of us." "You can go and meet the bosses but I don't think that it will be of any use." " We are not doing anything illegal." "We are only asking for a few chairs." "Will anyone come with me?" " Should I?" "Okay come." "Will you all come?" " Come, let's go." "Where are you going without permission?" " It's an emergency." "What's the matter?" " If you could provide some chairs outside." "There is no place to sit outside and half the people who have come are standing from morning." "If there is no place to sit can't everyone adjust and sit?" "It is not possible to provide 75 chairs at the same time." "The fact is that it is very hot today and one of the two fans is also not working at all." "One person just fainted." "If he fainted then he shouldn't have applied with such a weak constitution." "In this job he will have to work much harder than this." "Working hard on the job is different but if in an interview you don't even get a chair to sit in, then..." "What is your name?" "What is your position?" "I didn't come to talk about me." " Then go outside and wait." "If there is no place to sit then stand and wait." "You come in only when your name is called." "The more problems you create the more the delay." "Go now." "Why do you let all these useless people come in?" "Sir, I told them not to." "They came in by force." "Came in by force." "Go outside and stand guard." "Do you want to sit?" " You sit down or else you might also faint." "Soumitra Bannerjee." "In many animals, as in all vertebrae's, the general form of the body is maintained by means of the skeleton." "The skeleton consists of a series of bones supplemented in certain regions by pieces of cartilage." "A striking characteristic of bone is its hardness." "The skeleton persists after death for a variable length of time after the rest of the body has disintegrated." "Listen." "The interviews will be suspended for lunch for half an hour and after half an hour your names will be called once again." "Where are you going?" "What do you think?" " What's the matter?" " Are we animals?" "What's the matter?" " Are we servants or something like that?" "You get out." " What right do you have to behave like this with us." " Chatterjee!" "I want an answer." "Get out." "Nonsense, what's this?" "Get out of here." "I will, but before that..." "Today I had to leave behind a lot of people whom I've known for a long time." "But the most surprising thing is that I remember you the most today." "I've know you only for such a short time." "The place Balurghat is more or less the way I imagined it." "For the time being I'm in a hotel." "But when I say hotel it is not what you normally would understand." "Till I get a house I'll be staying here." "When I shift to the house I will send the address to you." "I don't think that I'll be able to stay here in comfort but this discomfort is nothing compared to your discomfort." "But whatever discomfort I have will vanish when I get your letter." "Today I'm very tired and will not write much." "I'll tell you about an incident and end the letter." "Can I get some tea?" " Yes." "'The name of lord Ram is the eternal truth.'" "'The name of lord Ram is the eternal truth.'" "'The name of lord Ram is the eternal truth.'" "'The name of lord Ram is the eternal truth.'" "'The name of lord Ram is the eternal truth.'" "'The name of lord Ram is the eternal truth.'" "'The name of lord Ram is the eternal truth.'" "'The name of lord Ram is the eternal truth.'"