Hafeez, rather M.A.Hafeez, was also "one" of my taylors er tailors.
Then there was Swamy, Srinivas, and later some more "fashionable" ones.
Urban Bank Rd. thats where it all happened - Bata, Oriental Photo Studio, Laxmi Bhandar. If you walked a little towards the Fire Station there was "Summer Villa". Where else but in Berhampur, such Anglophilia. The ice cream, the fruit salad, the lassi, the rosemilk - yummy yum yum.
Hey this post is going the way of -
" Q. Bharata ra Swadhinata Dibas kebay? Ans. Kalikata Bondara "
Yes Ganjam Cloth Stores, Snowwhite, Murthy General stores, Hind Ready Made Stores, Calcutta Hosiery, Bombay Dyeing, cannot recollect... By the way there was yet another unforgettable Krazzy Character just next to Bata selling Sports goods, Toys, and Crazy goods, you name it he had it in his stores. He opened another branch too, just opposite his stores Kodak Photo Processing Unit. Goodness me? How could I forget??
And Hilu,
What's this August 15 all about?. Bondara is Port and Pandara is 15. But Kalikata????
From Taylor we forayed into tailors to Urban Bank Rd ...
Joke transliteration warning (best delivered verbally in Oriya)!
So this kid is "copying" from the neighboring kid. Can't quite see and writes down the answer as "August Bondara" (Q being when is India's Ind. Day). And another kid copying from the "copier" applies a little common sense, and figures the answer must be "Calcutta Port".
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The image didn't stick?
For me, eh? For all who rmbr. them.
All I remember is during our times in Berhampur we had two Tailors - Hafeez Tailors and Swami Tailors!!
oh faiyaz!
don't tell me hafeez bhai was also your tailor. lovely, cool, mature man. great memories about him.
Hafeez, rather M.A.Hafeez, was also "one" of my taylors er tailors.
Then there was Swamy, Srinivas, and later some more "fashionable" ones.
Urban Bank Rd. thats where it all happened - Bata, Oriental Photo Studio, Laxmi Bhandar. If you walked a little towards the Fire Station there was "Summer Villa". Where else but in Berhampur, such Anglophilia. The ice cream, the fruit salad, the lassi, the rosemilk - yummy yum yum.
Hey this post is going the way of -
"
Q. Bharata ra Swadhinata Dibas kebay?
Ans. Kalikata Bondara
"
I'll let y'all figure this one out.
Yes Ganjam Cloth Stores, Snowwhite, Murthy General stores, Hind Ready Made Stores, Calcutta Hosiery, Bombay Dyeing, cannot recollect...
By the way there was yet another unforgettable Krazzy Character just next to Bata selling Sports goods, Toys, and Crazy goods, you name it he had it in his stores. He opened another branch too, just opposite his stores Kodak Photo Processing Unit.
Goodness me? How could I forget??
And Hilu,
What's this August 15 all about?.
Bondara is Port and Pandara is 15.
But Kalikata????
Please Elaborate!
Going off tangent from subject.
From Taylor we forayed into tailors to Urban Bank Rd ...
Joke transliteration warning (best delivered verbally in Oriya)!
So this kid is "copying" from the neighboring kid. Can't quite see and writes down the answer as "August Bondara" (Q being when is India's Ind. Day). And another kid copying from the "copier" applies a little common sense, and figures the answer must be "Calcutta Port".
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