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It would not be recognisable, as it had undergone many changes during the passage of time.

Aditya left the local school, after he had passed the matriculation examination.

Student 1: Values are beliefs that have an essential worth in its use to an individual. Values introduce an vital characteristic of self-concept and serve as guiding ethic for person.

Student 2: Human values are essential in today’s society and mostly in the business world. Human values are the features that guide people to take into account the human component when one interrelates with other human beings. They have many optimistic charm that create bonds of humanity between people and thus have value for all human beings.

Student 3: Rightly said! Human values are strong positive feelings for the human spirit of the other. These human values have the effect of closeness, consoling, comforting and obtaining peacefulness. Human values are the basis for any practical life within society.

Student 4: Yes I agree, they build space for an initiative that leads to peace. To be precise, human values are common and shared by all human beings. irrespective of their religion, nationality, culture, financial status and their family background.

I possess the qualities of Compassion, Character, Respect and Friendship. From my siblings I expect Respect, Love, Sharing and Family Bond.

The mutual qualities we share as friends are Friendship and Character.

Friend 1: I think the most important quality needed to share a relationship among friends should be friendship.

Friend 2: I do agree that friendship is important but I feel character is more important. It’s the character of a person that makes me choose my friends and maintain a cordial relationship. So, I feel its Character that should be the top priority.

Friend 1: Yes dear friend, I think you are perfect in your viewpoint. Character make the a personality. If Character is there, then all other aspects will fall in line.

Friend 2: Thank you, dear, for accepting my views and re-evaluating your views. Friendship falls in place when a friend has good character. Automatically, the relationship will be valued and held priceless.

When Aditya went up the attic, he got on top of the packing case and pushed his hand inside the ventilator. He upset a sparrow’s nest, a part of which fell to the ground. It looked as if he was in search of something that he had left there 29 years ago.

Jogesh Kabiraj is Sasanka Sanyal’s father’s friend.

Through the ‘window’ that had been created in the attic, one could see the sky, the fields, a part of the rice mill and the spire of the old temple.

Among many other things, there was a broken cricket bat, the remains of an armchair and a wooden packing case in the attic.

The attic had been a favourite place for the children because it was in the attic the children seemed to be in a world of their own.

The jeweller said that it was an antique.

He searched for an article and found it on top of the packing case in the attic.

A portion of a wall of the attic had crumbled down. Through the created window, we could see the sky, the fields, a part of the rice mill, the tall structure of the old temple. In the whole house, the attic had probably been the worst hit by wind and weather. The floor was strewn with twigs, straw and pigeon droppings.

Yes, Sasanka’s desire was realized as Aditya restored to its owner the medal that had been hidden in the attic for twenty-one long years.

Aditya did his matriculation schooling at his native village Bramhapur where he was born and proceeded to continue his higher studies in Calcutta.

Aditya said this to Sanyal, because Aditya was the cause for Sanyals grievances.

Sanyal had tea and biscuits in Nagen’s tea shop. But he never failed to pay for it. This shows that he had a sense of self-respect.

Sanyal gave Aditya the prize he got on the Prize distribution day because Aditya wanted to show his father.

The price of silver was not more than five rupees then and now silver is thirty times costlier.

Sanyal said that Aditya could not bear the fact that Sanyal had got a prize. He was envious and said that he had lost it because of the hole in his pocket.

Sasanka did not accept the money given by Aditya. He rejected it saying that money would soon be spent and that he would have preferred to have the medal if it were possible to forget the unpleasant incident of his childhood.

Sanyal said that Aditya Narayan Chowdhury was the spoilt child of affluent parents. He was a fairly good student but could never beat him in studies. He also said that he was extremely jealous of him and used to tell lies.

In Sasanka Sanyal’s room, there was absolutely nothing but just a charpoy to sit on. Sasanka Sanyal was busy reciting verses from Tagore.

Aditya offered Sanyal one hundred and fifty rupees. It was the price of the medal, which Sanyal received in school for recitation.

Sasanka said to Aditya, ‘Aditya, this smacks too much of charity. Doesn’t it? I had recognised you at Nagen uncle’s tea shop by that mole on your right cheek. I could see you had not recognised me. So I recited the same poem that I had recited on the prize-giving day, on purpose, so that you may remember. Then, when you came to visit me, I couldn’t help venting my anger on you.’

Sanyal comes to the tea shop, has tea and biscuits and always remembers to pay for it as he has an acute sense of self-respect.

Besides tea, he had biscuits and savouries.

Aditya decided to visit his ancestral house to take the medal from his attic.

On either side of the road were paddy fields. Harvest was over.

Nagen told them that Sanyal was short of sight and hearing. He had no money to buy spectacles.

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2. schoolgirl 

3. sunburn 

4. toothbrush 

5. washroom 

6. typeset 

7. upstairs 

8. backbone

9. sleeping-pill 

10. washing-machine 

11. bookbinding 

12. time-consuming 

13. fit-for-nothing 

14. all for good 

15. commanders-in-chief 

16. daughters-in-law

The owner of the tea shop was uncle Nagen. His age was over sixty. He was a little rustic in appearance, with his white neatly-combined hair and clean look. He was wearing a dhoti and a blue striped shirt under a green shawl.

Sasanka Sanyal was a wise and intelligent student. Perhaps luck never favoured him. He may have been a book-worm. However, he was overpowered by his friends because of his innocence. Hence, Aditya Narayan Chowdhury exploits him and takes away his Silver medal that he had received for Poetry Recitation. He had a wonderful memory power and could recall every single incident of his past.

He remembered Aditya when he saw him in Nagen’s Tea Cabin and confirmed his memory seeing his mole on the right cheek. He was rude in his behavior towards Aditya as he did not want to suppress his feelings and vented out his anger on him. He was remorse after the death of his family members.

He whiled away his time at Nagen’s shop yet never gave up his self-respect and paid for the cup of coffee and biscuits if in case he had. Financially, he wasn’t comfortable since he couldn’t afford even a spectacle because of his partial deformity in his eye-sight.

“Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.”

Aditya visited his school first. Beyond the iron gates were the playing field and the two-storeyed school building.

Nagen uncle’s shop was next to a grocery shop and opposite to a temple dedicated to Lord Shiva.

No, he was not happy about his visitors.

Sriman Sasanka Sanyal – Special Prize for Recitation – 1948.

Sanyal recited the poem in the tea shop in order to make Aditya remember the incidents on the prizegiving day. He recited the same poem that he had recited on the prize-giving day.

Mr. Sanyal suddenly stood up, stretched himself, raised his lean right arm and with eyes wide open, began to recite a poem by Tagore – “Panraksha”. After reciting, he left the place making a gesture of Namaste to nobody in particular.

Aditya and his friend went to the jeweller to find out the weight of the article.

From the jeweler’s shop Aditya went straight to Jogesh Kabiraj’s house where Mr. Sasanka Sanyal whom he met at Nagen uncle’s tea shop lived. Aditya wanted to meet Sasanka Sanyal.

The narrator had noticed the keen interest of Aditya in seeing the tea shop at Bramhapur if it still existed. They saw Sasanka Sanyal another customer seated in one comer of the Nagen’s Tea Cabin. When that customer was asked to leave by Nagen the owner, he behaved strangely and reacted sharply. Before leaving the place, he stretched himself, raised his lean arm and with diluted eyes recited a poem by Tagore.

On hearing this poem and seeing the customer’s strange gesture of Namaste, Aditya’s expression changed. The narrator noticed the eagerness in Aditya to know who the gentlemen were and what he was doing. The information he had received from Nagen uncle perturbed Aditya. He was distressed perhaps to know that the man lost his wife and only son last year.

When he left, Aditya was bent on knowing where the gentleman stayed and drove straight to his ancestral house with firm determination. His nerves seemed overwrought for some reason and he felt a strong necessity to visit his house. Aditya was totally a different person now and he expressed keen interest to visit his house where he lived twenty-nine years ago.

“Memories are sometimes pleasant yet disturbing.”

Man does change with time. According to Sanyal, Aditya was a boy who could never compete him in scholastic or non-scholastic activities. He was a liar and an envious personality. But, years later Aditya no longer is the same personality. He is more matured and responsible. His childish nature makes him feel guilty for stealing the medal that belonged to Sanyal.

Aditya now wanted to restore Sanyal, his lost happiness. Knowing about his financial constraints, he decides to give him the cost of the silver medal. He drives with a firm determination to his ancestral house. When he reaches, he rushes to the attic. Aditya gets on top of a packing case and pushes his hand inside the ventilator, upsetting a sparrow’s nest. However, he heaves a sigh of relief when he gets what he had been looking for. He goes straight to the Jeweller to determine the current rate of the medal in the market.

All these surely show a remarkable change in him. Even when Sanyal behaves rudely, Aditya is courteous and friendly. His only intention is penitence. He is so mature that he even understands and justifies the grievances Sanyal had in his heart. When Sanyal prefers the medal, without second thoughts he restores it to Sanya whole-heartedly.

“Change is universal.”

When Nagen, the owner of the tea shop reminded Mr. Sanyal to go home as it was 4 p.m. Sanyal reacted sharply. Pricked by the same, he stood up, stretched himself and raised his lean right arm and with eyes dilated, began to recite a poem by Tagore – Panraksha titled in English, ‘Keeping of a Promise\ Having recited the poem, he left the place, making the gesture of Namaste with his hands, to nobody in particular. I noticed a sudden change in Aditya’s expression and I asked him the reason for it.

Aditya and the narrator were returning from the site of their new factory at Deodarganj. While returning, in the month of Magha, ” that is January or February by the English calendar, sometime in the middle of winter, around 3.30 p.m. they went to Bramhapur.

After the demise of Aditya’s father, Aditya had to look after it. Satyajit Ray, the narrator was Aditya’s friend and also his business partner.