The Spectacular Spectrum

By Nila Mitra

The geography and natural beauty I have seen on my way and the people I met printed a deep and everlasting impression in my mind.
This travel fiction is the outcome of the magnificent experience of nature and the loving memory of its people I left behind.
I tried reveal that nature is my main character. In the cities and towns , we are not very much in touch with nature, but sometimes we forget that there is an eternal bond between the soul of a man and the spirit of nature, to see and to feel its existence all around us. It stands as an animate entity for us through we can acquire wisdom of its creator who created all of it, as if as a scientist or as an artist, but above all we need to revitalize of our knowledge of the creator of all creation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Sep 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496988928

Nila Mitra

Nila Mitra is a teacher .singer, song writer, composer, translator, interpreter and writer. She was trained and qualified as a teacher from Digby Stuart college of Education and obtained a Degree Certificate in Bachelor in Education from The London University in 1976. Inner London Education Authority produced a music audio cassette titled ‘Evergreen Rymes’ in which Nila was the sole singer and the book of notes was accompanied with the cassette illustrated by the children of her classroom at Thomas Buxton Infant School in 1990. In 2002, she became the consultant for The T.T.A. She was well loved by the children at school, appreciated by the parents, colleagues, and friend and family. Now she is following ‘Self Realisation Fellowship’ course of study from The Yogananda Meditation Centre’ in Los Angeles, California, America. The New World News Paper in London wrote an article about her on 6th July 1990 which says Nila Mitra is an untiring devotee in education. In person, Miss Mitra is very soft and pleasant and is liked by all at a glance, but she is equally strict disciplinarian in works and fully committed to her assignments.

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Published by AuthorHouse 08/29/2014

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgement

Chapter One   The Journey

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

The Last Chapter

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This book would not have been possible without the encouragement of Mr. Dipak Jashapara, my yoga teacher and my friend Ms. M. Jobanputra. When and where ever they saw me, they asked me the same question: Did you go to the publisher?

Thanks are also due to Mr. Santhosh Chandran, the manager of Asian Centre for doing all the computer work and even taking my photograph for the book, Mrs. Laura Albu who has typed the whole book and above all the caring consideration of Mr. J.P. Agrawal, the Chairman of Asian Centre, Wood Green, London Borough of Haringey.

Thanks are due to my sister Lolita and Ms. Emmanuelle Daan, the Publishing Consultant, Mr. Mark Andrews check-in coordinator, and Kathy Lorenzo Design Consultant of Author House, for ensuring a quick publication.

In advance, thanks to all the readers for reading my book.

CHAPTER ONE

The Journey

I am ready to go. However, it is only early in the morning. The time is only four minutes past five o’clock. Maureen is coming at ten past seven. She asked me to wait in front of ST Benet’s Fink Church. There is an open space to park the car and it will be easy for me to put my luggage in the car boot and get into the car. Our coach will be leaving for Ireland from Enfield coach station at 8 o’clock sharp. Maureen organized the trip.

Our summer holiday started from yesterday. What a sweet feeling it was that I don’t have to work from today. It’s a long holiday to enjoy, to rest, to explore the part of the world, to see the green fields, the blue sky in open air, to view many villages, towns, and cities and to eat different delicious foods in different unknown cafes, restaurants, hotels and to look at many different faces and races of people on our ways.

My grandma once said to me: You can go out in the world; see hundreds, thousands and millions of people but you can never see another face exactly like yours, a face which has mirror image with you. No person on this earth could see a person who has an exactly face like the other person. Creation is wonderful. A person can have ten brothers or sisters, but no one has the exact facial image like the other. You can go around the world, searching for it, but you will never see it. The twins and triplets are the exceptions because they are made together.

Suddenly I remembered my grandmother. Why is that? I wonder. It may be that she was the head of the family, to organize the trip, to pay for it, to put necessary clothes and other items in the suitcases, to do luggage. Now she is not here in the world any longer. Now I organize my life, my expenditure, my food, my housekeeping, and my holiday. I am not a little girl anymore. I am a grown up woman. I am going to work, earning money, buy a three bedroom flat to live comfortably and independently. There is no one to tell me „Do this and Don’t do this" or in other words to praise me or to tell me off. I lost my father when I was very little. He had a heart attack and passed away when he was thirty nine years old. However, his life ended all of a sudden and at once.

My grandmother and my mother struggled hard to maintain a good standard in living. My grandfather, who was a public prosecutor, left a lot of money in the bank, a motorcar business and a huge farmland, which was rented to many different farmers.

My grandmother sent me and my brothers and sisters to a private grammar school to study. Private tutors came to teach us songs. In weekends, we used to go to Saturday Performer Arts school to learn instruments and dance. My mother taught me embroidery, knitting and sewing while my grandmother taught me variety of delicious dishes. It was an absolute regulation in the family that everyone should pray to God in the prayer room everyday for at least two minutes.

Now I light up one candle in alter which is the middle shelf of the black glass cabinet in the living room, every evening. There is a little statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus that was given to me by my best friend who was also my landlady, Ms Margaret Pond. When I came out of College and was looking for a job, I lived in her house. That is another story of my life. However, those days are gone.

Now I think that I should make myself a nice cup of coffee and finish reading that book about the geography and the history of Ireland, which I borrowed from the Library. I made my coffee and read the book so that I could acquire some more knowledge on Ireland. I looked at the A.A. Guide Book„ Exploring Ireland and two other books on Ireland. Ireland is sometimes referred as the Emerald Isle for its green fields, its landscape who is filled with majestic mountains, mysterious bogs and verdant valleys culminating in a wild coast of Atlantic Ocean. My understanding is that the Irish people live life with deep religious attitude towards life. They love music. Irish country songs are loved and respected by the whole world generation after generation. Ireland produced many great sons, those who were adored, respected and loved by the whole educated world, i.e. Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, and Yates, William Ellingham for poems, Joshua Reynolds in oil painting, Edmund Burke, the judge and political philosopher. Burke’s speech is world famous for the impeachment of Warren Hastings who was the vice-Roy of India for the British Empire. Jonathan Swift, the author of Gulliver’s travel" was born in Dublin and died as a canon and buried in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The Irish beer Guinness is also world famous for its taste and flavor. Many Irish sons became presidents of America. Many world famous Hollywood stars were Irish descendent.

In the middle of the Stone Age, in about 6000 BC, the first settlers in Ireland came from Scotland as fishermen and hunters. It was in the late Bronze Age, about 700 BC; Indo-Europeans people came to