Erasure of old and cherished traditions speaks of the cultural impoverishment of a nation and its people, said Nirad C Chaudhuri in The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian.
What would Nebadhai, a small village in Duttapukur in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district and BK Pal Avenue, a crowded locality in North Kolkata, have in common? The two, despite being opposites in terms of geography and social conditions, house the last survivors of two almost extinct professions – palanquin-bearers and mobile ear cleaners. Both the professions evoke a deluge of nostalgic memories of a bygone era, when life wasn't so fast as it is today. Sarojini Naidu had time and empathy for palanquin-bearers to write a beautiful poem on them.
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