What he also saw while travelling from one Bengal to the other at the fag end of his life was Bangladeshi Customs officials getting off their seats and helping him walk through the green channel at Darshana, while his fellow Indians left no stone unturned to humiliate him.
Sabiha Islam of Mogbazar is on a visit to India on a vacation with family and friends, a group of 12, including quite a few chirpy kids.
During the journey, she kept me busy asking all sorts of questions about India; Kolkata to be precise. Where to get the best quality sarees, which shopping mall near New Market offers the maximum discount. If travelling to Shimla would be a better option than going to Darjeeling and so on and so forth.
Image: Sabiha Islam's husband saying his prayers on the train.
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