An Act of Sheer Defiance:
My Sis: Through My Eyes: Chapter - 4: An Act of Sheer Defiance "Ekta chhoto meyer (in the original text, it was actually 'cheler') ja sahos, ek bari suddhu loker ta nei”, (The pluck that a chit of a girl has displayed today, is unmatched in the whole household!). I am reminded of Sharat Babu's "SriNath Bahurupi" (The Chamelion) right now thinking about the year, 1980 and my sister's extraordinary courage. Sharat Chandra Chattyopadhyay, by the way, was a prominent Bengali writer of yesteryear, who, in the opinion of many, should have won the Nobel Prize for Literature long before Tagore. Now to come back to my sister, Tripti – that was a whale of an afternoon in 1980 at 41. That day when the Principal of my college paid a visit to our ancestral house. That was the day when my chit of a sister made it known to my father that First Class Engineer or not, she was not going to marry him. She also must have told my father that if she had to be ma...