Horror Story: My Great Grandfather Comments

Then I was 12 years old, my grandfather told me, ‘My father was a revolutionary. He broke the left leg of Pratap Roy, Zamindar of Nadia and right leg of Rana Thakur, Zamindar of Srirampur and fled away. We hardly found his trace. When the situations became normal, he appeared before us in guise of a monk'.

Pratap was cruel and Rana was ruthless. Shiv Pundit could never tolerate the humiliation and suppression of the innocent subjects. He worshipped ‘Das Kapital' for salvation and chanted Vedic Hymns in the Shiva Temple to earn his bread and butter. We were priests of the said temple for seven generations. Shiv Pundit was hardly a materialistic socialist but rather a revolutionary socialist. He led an aesthetic life during his final days.
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