I bathed here yesterday - in a makeshift 'ghat' in one of the smaller ponds. The other one (pona pukur - shown below) is in a totally decrepit state, and we need to make a proper one there before the coming monsoon. As a kid I remember bathing here everyday. It was one moment I used to really look forward to. Sometimes I would venture out for a swim, but often it was just a quick 'doob' and then sitting on the ghat just watching the myriad birds and fishes around the pukur paar.
In winter, the lobster would come out of the pukur with the rising sun and sit still on the pukur-paar. You needed to have a real careful eye to notice their tentancles stick out of the water. My ma was exceptional in discovering them, and she wou,ld walk around the paar on tip-toes waiting to find one, and then deftly grab the hapless creatures out of the water. The lobster with shor'se for lunch, was one of my favorites.
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