The lady from Shakpura
When I was in an Indian restaurant in Australia, an Indian lady asked me where I came from. I said I came from Bengal. She said, “I am also from Bengal.”I said, “I am from Chittagong.” Then immediately she said she was from Shakpura, which is where I grew up.
I asked her some questions in case she was fooling me. Although I am much older than she, she was really from Shakpura. Her name was Anita.
The restaurant we were in was only three and a half miles from her present home. She had come to Australia with her son.
— 5 October 1984
Sri Chinmoy, The world-experience-tree-climber, part 3, Agni Press, 1993
