January 19. “Where’s chotididi? I didn’t see her at the dining table! And I saw barididi accompany you when you went to feed our six stray babies!”

“She’s gone to Kolkata for some work. She’ll be back tomorrow.”

“Isn’t her birthday coming up?”

“The day after tomorrow.”

“I see you’re tired today or we could have started writing our next story.”

“We’ll do that tomorrow. Actually I have a very bad backache and won’t be able to sit up for long .”

“No issue. We can start from tomorrow.”