Aloka Moulik Chatterjee son Arup who has been living in Mumbai for the last two decades where he heads the Indian operations of a Japanese multinational. He has inherited his mother's intellectual and cultural interests. Aloka's first book "Tales of Tuntuni" which is an English translation of a Bengali classic by the famous Upendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury was published posthumously. The book is dedicated to her grandson Avi and grand-daughter Durga, both of whom have the fondest memories of their beloved 'Mamu', especially of all the stories they heard from her since for as long as they can remember.
When Achala di first informed me about this evening I was delighted, but also somewhat intimidated. Delighted because the idea of listening to Aloka Chatterjee's translations of Upendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury's stories took me back to my childhood when my grandmother and parents would tell us these stories.