In the narrow lanes of North Kolkata once lived a man who seemed carved from myth. Towering at seven and a half feet and weighing more than 150 kilos, Ramkinkar Dey looked less like an ordinary human and more like a legend walking among people. After watching the film King Kong in a cinema hall…
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The Man Who Could Hear The World
Bhaskor Mollik was born on a humid summer afternoon in the year of our Lord 1900, in the narrow bylanes of Jessore, in undivided Bengal. The monsoon clouds hovered heavy above, the scent of wet earth and mango blossom swirling in the air. His first cries mingled with the drone of mosquitoes and the distant…
Weekend Stories by Trishikh 