The story goes back to the early year of 2000 A.D. when the usage of mobile and computer was just stepping in India for official purposes and not frequent by the public.
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People would glance towards the two buildings always because of their identical structures and appearances like twins. Both the buildings were situated in the farthest corner of the Park Street area of Kolkata, in a sub-lane of the interior area where there was not much public access nor much traffic.
Both the two-story buildings were built in 7,500 square feet of an area each having 4 nos of bedrooms on the ground floor as well as an upper floor with a big hall on the ground floor for family gatherings. The entrance to the main buildings was well protected by 8 feet strong covered iron gates with identical design blocking the views of the public inside. Once a person would enter the main entrance, he would find his path in the middle strewn with green grass on both sides with gardens surrounded by multi colored various flowers and fountains till reaching the entrance to the house. These two buildings belonged to Mukherjee's and Chatterjee's. Both were close-knit families. The two buildings were only separated by a common boundary wall with a gap in the middle so that both the families could access each other without any difficulties. Both the houses had swimming pools. Thank God, there were no tallest buildings near to these two houses, although there were some but 200 meters away from these two houses from where nobody could peep through a binocular to the swimming pools which were well protected through the dense foliage of pine trees which surrounded the pools. Both the houses were situated in a healthy background except the backside. The backside of their houses was well protected by boundary wall and the adjunct place in their backside was a vacant land, a Government property full of grass, shrubs, and bushes where wild plants up to 4/5 feet height were growing. The nearby dirty water was flowing there and getting stagnated. To prevent flies and mosquitoes, both the households would engage manual labour to clear the dirt once a month.
The patriarch of the Mukherjee clan was Arnab Mukherjee,60 years old, an Industrialist, a tall figured person with partial grey hairs with a masculine physique. His wife was Kaberi Mukherjee aged 56 years, still looked beautiful like an old cine actress and anyone could assume her to be in her forties with no shrinkage in her skin. They had two off springs. Their son Debashish was 38 years old, a handsome guy with a boyish look of medium height, unlike his father. His wife Ashmita was a 36 years woman with a splendid Bengali beauty with glowing skin always radiating, and with a cylindrical face with a sharp nose and no one would believe that she was the mother of a big girl. Deboshree was 34 years old, sibling of Debashish and daughter of Arnab Mukherjee. She was slim and beautiful as a model but unfortunately, she was a spinster and at present, she was a scientist and researcher at the National Institute of Rice Research. The last of the Mukherjee clan was the bubbly daughter of Debashish, the granddaughter of Arnab Mukherjee, Arpita, an 18 years bright young girl, just admitted into the first year of her graduation in St. Stephen college, the most reputed college of Kolkata. Apart from this, there was another family member in the Mukherjee family, was Bipin Das, a youth of 22 years. Arnab brought this youth from his native village from a poor family when Bipin was only 10 years old. Bipin grew up in the family like a family member, Arnab made him a trained driver, and he was now the domestic help as well as the driver of the family.
Sometimes, God would create wonders either intentionally or it would be co-incidentally. Not only the buildings of the two families were identical in structure, but the family structure of the two families resembled a hundred percent with each other in a striking manner.
The patriarch of the Chatterjee clan was Bhashkar Chatterjee,60 years old and he was also an Industrialist, a bosom friend of Arnab. Unlike his friend, Bhashkar was of medium height and muscular but his head was totally ice white. His wife Archana was also 56 years old like Kaberi, wife of Arnab, a surpassing beauty in her faded age. Both Archana and Kaberi were very much attached as if they were two sisters. Like Mukherjee, they had also one son and a daughter. Their son Dipankar was 38 years old and his wife Madhu was 36 years. Madhu was such a beautiful woman and maintained her physique in such a way that she looked like a college-going girl despite having a big daughter. It was needless to mention that Dipankar was a close friend of Debashish, son of Arnab Mukherjee, just like a brother. His wife, Madhu was as close as a sister with Ashmita, wife of Debashish. Similar to his friend, Bhaskar Chatterjee had also one daughter, Debika, a 34 years old woman who was a professor and Researcher in Anthropology at Kolkata University. Like her dear friend, Deboshree, Debika was also a spinster. Now the last one of the Chatterjee clan was Bipasha,18 years, the beautiful young and high-spirited girl, full of life. She was the only daughter of Dipankar and Madhu and granddaughter of Bhaskar Chatterjee, and she was studying in the same class of her 1st-year graduation with her best friend Arpita, the granddaughter of Arnab Mukherjee. There was another person in the family of Chatterjee family, and he was Mihir Ghosh, a youth of 20 years. Bhaskar found Mihir, an 8 years orphan boy then wandering near Railway station and begging for food. Archana, his wife pitied the wandering orphan, and they brought him to their household, and now he was the cook of the family. He had another special quality as Bhaskar sent him to an Ayurvedic center to becoming as a masseur. After training few months there, Mihir became a good masseur who could fix strained muscles through his massage with oil within some minutes.
As mentioned earlier, the two clans were closely attached deeply like
one family. The granddaughters, Arpita and Bipasha would address Arnab and Bhashkar as Grand Paa and would address Kaberi and Archana as Grand Maa. Both the girls would address the Aunties of the families as Deboshree Aunty and Devika Aunty. They would address each other's parents as Uncle and Aunty. Similarly, the two sons and two daughters of the families would address the patriarchs as Arnab Uncle and Bhaskar Uncle and Aunty to their wives. But there was a difference in the case of two daughters-in-law of the families. Both the daughters-in-law, Ashmita and Madhu would address the Patriarchs as Papa and would address Kaberi and Archana as Mom.
Both the families would host family gatherings once a month preferably on Sunday alternatively in their residence. It would be always fun, sharing love and affection between two families. The family gathering would start with breakfast, it would continue with lunch till evening.