12 February

"Please let me know if what you have written in your book Sadhaker Patra is all imagination."

Nolini-da said: "No, not at all. I wrote all that to my most intimate friend Shachin."

"I thought they were like Suresh Chakrabarti's Hasanter Patra."

"No, mine are serious. It seems to me that you want to translate them into English."

I gave him a smile and said: "Who can hide anything from you?"