1981 was an eventful year. A group of medicos of the CNMC 1978 batch, Debadipta Das, Gautam Pal Chowdhury, Swapan Mukhopadhyay and myself brought out this 21 page little bi-lingual literary and cultural magazine "KAHLAR", meaning a lotus. It was a dream come true. I was throughly involved in designing the coverpage, editing the english section, honing my writing skills, proof reading at the New Alipore press and of course raising funds from our batchmates to meet the printing expenses. I had even carefully kept the wooden block of "KAHLAR" as a memento for a great period of time, but had eventually misplaced it somewhere.
My writing efforts cuminated in prose pieces like "Palkee-Palkee-Palkee" and "Sekaler Bigyapane Ajab Kolkata", the last named article written in the bengali in the second and last issue of the magazine. I also wrote "Loneliness" under the pen-name of Munmun Roy. I was also instrumental in taking an interview of the noted poet, Mr Arun Mitra.
The next year (1982) we brought out the college literary magazine, where I was responsible for editing the english section and in designing the coverpage of the magazine. I still feel we did an excellent job. The cover picture was taken by our friend, Sanmoy Ganguly. It was here I wrote an essay titled "The History Of Young Mr Charnock" and a poem called "A Wish". In the mean time the bengali cultural mag ORCHID, published my poem "Chanda"
The 1983 SANKALAN published my small story, "The Perfect Salesgirl". I graduated the same year and became so much involved with my internship that it put a temporary stop to my literary spurt.
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