Nostalgia

They describe it in Wikipaedia like this.

The term nostalgia describes a longing for the past, often in idealized form. The word is made up of two Greek roots (νόστος nostos "returning home", and άλγος algos "pain"), to refer to "the pain a sick person feels because he wishes to return to his native home, and fears never to see it again". It was described as a medical condition, a form of melancholy, in the Early Modern period, and came to be an important topic in Romanticism.

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How can you measure the flavour of a Coffee House Cold Coffee and chicken pakoras like this? Or the flavour of the mangoes in ahuge basket that my father used to bring home? Or the taste of the Chingri malaikari my mother used to cook so so long ago?

The first coloured moth flipping on the ground? The gently trickling waterpath from an overturned glass? The discarded glittering chocolate wrapper paper?

Or the smell of the wet earth after the rain, here, right here in the heart of Kolkata? The Prawn Cocktail at Skyroom, or the fresh baking smells of Flury's? The sounds of the bands playing at Trinca's flowing out in little windy spurts as the doors swung open to let the guests in.... Or the anticipation of listening to Hemanta Mukherjee's Puja song--"Bandhu Tomar Pather saathike chine nio" The whir of the 33rpm black discs on the record player where you had to place the turntable pin on...

The churan taste at the school tuckshop, the musty smell of the greenroom below the wooden stage, the group of us wading home after the typical Kolkata waterlogging-Subir, Ranju, Kaushik, Pushpak, Somenath.....

I will always reserve a space for nostalgia. If it is a disease, I am glad I am infected!!!!!!

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