My father

Well,to begin with my father or Babu as we called him,was born in 1920-2nd of October,the second son of Shri JyotindraNath Banerjee and Smt Subarna Bala Debi.He was a bright boy,passed with 4 letters i.e. distinctions,in his matriculation,and I still am in posession of a Cambridge Dictionary,presented to him on that occasion.
He was a marvellous singer,with a voice and talent,that made my grandfather put him to learn Music-(vocal)from the age of 8 from a gentleman called' Khordar Dadu'.He subsequently learnt music from ,Shri Satyen Ghoshal and Shri Girija Shankar Chakraborty.He became a vocalist,with All India Radio,at a very young age and with no backing what so ever.He was even invited by Dacca Radio,but due to job problems and indifferent health,was forced to refuse.
A tall man and as upright in mentality as in the way he carried himself,was a man whom most people admired, who came in touch with him.
He did not study much,due to parental restrictions,but was a self taught man,in many fields.
He taught himself Homeopathy,learning initially from Dr.Bagchi,himself an eminent Medical practioner of the Allopathic way of medicine,who left it due to disillusionment,and turned totally to Homeopathy.It is recorded that he even cured a madman who roamed about naked and lived in the gutters.
My Babu, picked up whatever knowledge he could from'Daktar Babu' as we all called him.He then started reading and became such a master at it,that after his death in19th April 1990,for months people came looking for him,for medication,which he distributed free,at any time of the day and night,from as far as Ganjbasoda,Dewas etc.etc.
A man who was always dressed in cotton and white,was a man of faith,he got initiated'given mantra'by a sadhu,at Dakhineshwar,at the age of 8,while playing in the mandir premises,which was adjacent to his Maternal Uncle's (Shri Pashupati Mukherjee)home.He remembered the 'mantra'when he was in his 40s,and then it became part of his life.He was a devotee of Kali,Shri Ramakrishna,but was never a bigot,and was one of the most tolerant of men,I have ever seen,making no distinction between any faith or caste,or gender.
I, his daughter,can proudly say that whatever i am today is primarily because of him and my Mother. '.

Bhopal-years before settling down

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