And, what am I supposed to do growing up the way I am with the mother and the jetha teaching me all kinds of romantic things that no one teaches little girls or young girls. Let the boro pishi’s daughter be asked about whether the jetha discusses such topics or not, because no other older men discuss these topics with little girls and young women, unless it’s someone like Tintin, or Manojit Mondal, or Santanu Biswas. From infancy the mother has raised me telling me about love and boyfriends. She used to tell me how she would read Mills and Boons and Sydney Sheldon in school, books I never touched. From childhood the mother has been teaching me abot boyfriends and love and marriage. I’ve never heard of a mother teaching their teenage daughter to read Mills and Boons or Sydney Sheldon in my life! It’s horrifying! Everyone ekse’s mother raises their daughter in a certain way. Bole, bole, bole mature koriye dey, so that they know everything about men and what men can do to them and that they should always protect themselves from men. I am the only one I have ever heard of in my life growing up with such a strange and creepy upbringing. The things that every other mother would slap down immediately as gross, the mother would encourage and egg you on in that direction. Yes, the mother and the jetha are criminals of that order! For that matter, I remember the jetha telling the chhoto pishi and me about Bertrand Russell’s numerous marriages! Who talks to young women like that? Who talks to tbeir youngest sister like that? It’s some massive perversion and mania! And the jetha would spend every day in Burdwan after I finished school discussing these topics with me. Yes, everyday. Thankfully, there was no culture of dating in my school, no boys, no men, no meeting boys outside school, nothing. It’s just because the school was very good that nothing could go wrong while I was in school. Nothing can go wrong until men and dating enter the equation. The moment I enter Jadavpur, everything is doomed. Because of my strange upbringing, I don’t know what I am supposed to do when men approach me. Anyone else would have just said, “no” to Elokeshi. But, because of my upbringing, I said, “yes”. Because that’s what I’ve been taught from infancy. And the mother’s mother did not teach me any of this, so it’s entirely the mother and the jetha.