Cars ......
My father being brought up in the socialistic upper middle class Bengali house of his maternal grandfather during 1960's had developed severe apathy to the idea of luxury, and he still maintains that apathy maybe owing to his hard working days as an officer at New India Assurance or maybe because of the subject accountancy which he studied at college. But this wasn't just him or that particular household. The working class of the Bengali society from clerks to Managing Directors were all followers of socialistic simple living. As my father's maternal grandfather was the Senior General manager of The Royal Insurance Company he unlike other Indians at that period was able to buy several cars. My fathers paternal grandfather Shri Rajendranath Bhattacharya had a GM Buick in 1940's. It is to be noted that during that era cars were an extreme luxury, only royal families could afford one. At that time in Burdwan only 2 families had cars, the Burdwan Maharaja and my grea...