My favourite aunt ♥️🫶🏻

We all have family. We all have immediate family. We all have extended family. We all have but very few times in our life some people from extended family feel like immediate family. One such person in my family was my paternal aunt, Mrs Bidisha Chatterjee. She passed away today, 29th January,2024. She had been the epitome of inspiration for my mother, for me and one of the well wishers from the start till the end. She was a senior manager at SBI and till the last day she got admitted to the hospital she was working. Every women in my family have been an inspiration, more than the men in the family. As I write this I remember one of Rupi Kaur's quotes " I stand on the sacrifices of a million women before me thinking what can I do to make this mountain taller so the women after me can see farther" and this holds true for her. When my mother got married and first saw her managing her job and her kids, she found inspiration. When I saw her as I grew up, I found inspiration. Even to this day when I am re- reading her old chats with me, I am feeling overwhelmed with emotions. Her daughters have been my favourite set of cousins and the fact that coming to uttarpara and meeting puti pisi and Papu jethu had been the custom for so many years and now they are both gone. Saraj Mukherjee Street lane would always be "puti pisi r barir rasta". Handling death has never been easy, I could never come to terms with someone just evaporating into thin air. This one will take a long time to be adjusted to. 

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