THE GHOST STORIES

RAVI RANJAN GOSWAMI

1-THE LAST PHOTOS

 

Sanno's grandmother died. When Joseph heard it, he asked his grandson John to follow him and rushed to Kunwar Saheb's mansion. Sanno's grandmother died at the age of 75. Joseph was an old photographer in the town. Sanno's grandmother was his old customer. Her name was Rajkumari.

When the grandmother came here, she was a beautiful young woman. Her husband Kunwar Chandan Singh loved her very much. In those days, Joseph had no photo studio. He would sit on the pavement outside the courtroom with the pinhole camera prevailing till that time and whenever there was a fair in town, he would raise a small tent and made it his photo studio. When Rajkumari and Chandan Singh visited the fair, they liked to get them photographed by Joseph. Rajkumari was very fond of photos. Her photo never came as beautiful as she was in reality. The shape of her nose was such that it looked somewhat crooked in the photo. In English we could say, her face was not photogenic. Joseph kept working hard. He opened a photo studio. The photo technology got better. Film cameras were replaced by digital cameras, but both Rajkumari and Joseph grew old and Rajkumari's complaint changed. Now she would say, " Joseph, earlier you used to take a good photo."

Joseph liked her photo. He had displayed a photo of Rajkumari and Kunwar Chandan Singh in his studio. Age passed. Joseph's grandson john now took over the charge of the studio. Mrs. Rajkumari had now become the grandmother of Sanno.

The wheel of time keeps on moving. it does not wait for any of your wishes to be completed.

Joseph, after receiving an instruction from Kunwar Saab, prompted John to start the photography.

The women of the house bathed the dead body of the grandmother and dressed

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Texte: Ravi Ranjan Goswami
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 14.06.2020
ISBN: 978-3-7487-4574-7

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