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It was Sunday.  My friend Jyoti Prakash Mitra invited me to Barackpore.  He invited me few days ago when I was in night shift.  He told me to come to Barackpore Station from where we will travel to different places like the Ganga Ghat, his school (Barackpore Ramkrishna Mission).  So I decided to go to Barackpore on Sunday. 

I slept throughout the morning on 28^th as the day before was my night shift.  I slept in the afternoon.  I woke up at 3:30 p.m.  I got myself ready and came out of my house with an umbrella.  The sky was cloudy.  There are few birds in the sky.  The atmosphere overall is gloomy. 

Jyoti Prakash was waiting for me in a bike.  He phoned me when I was in the Dumdum station just waiting to catch the Krishnanagar Local train.  The train arrived around 4:30 p.m.  Gradually the train moved from one station to the next.  It passed through many small towns like Ranaghat, Titagarh, etc.  I reached Barackpore station around 5:00 p.m. 

I called Jyoti Prakash over the phone.  He came with his motor bike.  He took me towards Barackpore Cantonment.  There is a huge signboard .  The road is concrete and the cars are moving swiftly.  The sky above is cloudy and dark and we talked about the possibility of rain.  Still we moved ahead and felt very pleasurable to travel in a bike with soft breeze blowing.  Jyoti drives bike smoothly.  He shows me the army headquarters.  There are beautiful gardens.  He told me colorful birds gather this place, which can be called the second Botanical Garden of Kolkata.  Barackpore is in North 24 Parganas. 

As I was moving beneath the trees in the deserted roads, I felt a chill down my spine.  I felt as if I am in another world where there is no noise, no pollution, so much fresh oxygen I have never breathed before.  Some trees are looking like giants looming over my head as I was moving swiftly beneath the lush greenery of the cantonment.  This Sunday trip is such I will remember throughout my life.  It is a trip which enlightens your soul.  You have already entered the world of green trees and I gradually moved to the Barackpore Ramkrishna Mission.  Beside that there is a Ganga river.  The waters of Ganges moving slowly far away and I felt that wonderful, excited and so happy to see the greenery of this part of the world.  Sometimes when I used to watch National Geographic Channel and Discovery Channel, I had the ambition of being a biologist.  A researcher who devotes his life studying nature.  I traveled to Baruipur and Narendrapur and had seen the greenery there.  It was long ago in my graduation days in Bangabasi College when I was studying Anthropology Hons.  Now after such a long time, I am seeing the greenery.  I am seeing plenty of roads with trees on both sides.  In fact, the large number of tree cover can be called a forest.  For hundreds of years, these trees are enriching the ecology of Barackpore.  Man sometimes become so cruel they want to cut the trees?  I think trees should not be cut unnecessarily.

Let there be plenty of trees. 

Let there be fresh oxygen that will enlighten your life and refresh your tired soul. 

Let there be a place where there is no pollution where you sit in the bench under the shades of hundreds of trees!!!! 

Let there be the shade from the Ultraviolet Ray of the sun underneath which you go to your work without using sunscreen cream! 

Let the nature's beauty add beauty to your body. 

Let there be a place to unwind not in any movie theater or shopping mall but the greenery that will touch your soul!

This is Barackpore Cantonment to me.  A place far away from the hustle and bustle of the city.  A place where you feel as if you are kissing the nature.  You can hug a tree trunk and feel that as if you are loving nature.  Never cut a tree that supports your life with fresh oxygen to you and your family but plant more trees to make this earth a better place to live!!!