Memories

The days that are gone sometimes brings you back pleasant memories.When you are alone you try to walk in that memory lane.People who were there every day every minute with you are no more there.You just hear them sometimes, they recide in your memory lane.When I was very young I remember I was a vivacious reader.I used to be away from my text books but novels and short stories were my friends.My parents always encouraged me and my sister to pick books as gifts and we were regulars at Calcutta Book Fair and very eagerly used to wait for it.
Among the authors Satyajit Roy was one of my favourite.I used to gulp any new book of him that was in the market, I used to read all his series of Feluda sensation.Sarat Chandra was a very sensitive writer&Sunil Ganguly's adventerous stories were fantastic too.Some stories and novels still reminds me the feelings of goosebumps I had by reading them at that time .Among those I still remember Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone With The Wind'.It is still one of the most sensational novel I have ever read.Oscar wildes &Maupassant's Short Stories were my favourites too.Among those -Wildes 'Happy Prince'and 'Picture of Dorian Gray'&Maupassant's'The Necklace' were so sensititive that it still makes me emotional.Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights'was sensational.Biographies were always marvellous.Biographies of Jackie Kenndy Onassis,JFK junior,Princess Diana,Satyajit Roy ,VincentVanGoghwere in my favourite list too.

Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind is a novel which has all kind of emotion.Then when you see the movie I believe we can imagine Scarlet O Hara and Vivien O Leigh as the same person.Scarlett struggled in her life but the way she always used to come with a solution or hope and firm determination to achieve whatever she wanted was potrayed in an amazing way in the book.After seeing the movie I cannot differenciate between Scarlett &Vivien O Leigh Rhett Butler&Clark Gable.I still can see the land of Tara in the south,and feel the way Scarlett used to feel.I still wonder why this is the only novel written by Margaret Mitchell why not more?I believe from Oscar Wlides stories and novel &Maupassant's short stories there is a philosophy and moral to be learned in life.Among the personalities Jackie 'O'& Diana went through so much in their life but still at the end their heads were high with dignity &pride. They lived with pride and selfrespect till their last days.JFK jr was one of my favourite personality too.His last image with his wife Carolyn Bessette is still haunting.He was the often seen and much photographed celebrity in NY.

Peoples life are also like books it goes by pages and chapters.Time and atmosphere allows me to browse through magazines and internet now. Sometimes I browse through my pleasant memories which brings back all those images.It was a different time a different chapter just like
Tara and the Tarletons and O Hara's.......