'Life is like a Piece of Sandal Wood'

Author: Kunal Konar, Consultant (BD & Analytic Hydrology)

Note: This post was first appeared on LinkedIn about four years back.

"জীবন'টা চন্দন কাঠের মতো বাবা, বার বার ঘষলে পরেই এর সৌরভ বেরিয়ে আসে।"

-- আমার পরলোকগতা দিদিমা, শ্রীমতি রাসেশ্বরী দত্ত (হাজরা চৌধুরী, বিয়ের পরে)।

"Life is like a piece of dry sandal wood, its essence won't come out unless one roughens it up on a piece of stone, again and again".

-- so said my late maternal grandmother, Shreemoti Rashewari Dutta (Hazra Chowdhury, after marriage).

Footnote

This is one of the favourite of post of mine; 'Cause it contains time-tested community knowledge of my fore-mothers, whose legacy may be as old as Bharatiya Civilization.