Once upon a time, Pradyosh Mitter, Tapas Mitter and Lalmohan Ganguly went to spend their holidays in Varanasi. They stayed in ‘Kolkata lodge’ of Varanasi. Varanasi was also known as Kasi, the land of 33 million temples of Hindu Gods and Goddesses. Varanasi is basically a holy place for the Hindus. Every year, millions of Hindu devotees come here to take a holy dip in the River Ganges. In the ghats of Varanasi, you can see many hermits who are preaching about Hindu mythology, philosophy and lifestyles to their respective devotees.
Pradyosh, Tapas and Lalmohan had to share a ‘four single bedded’ room with a body-builder. He was Mr. Bagchi. His biceps were around 17.5 inches. He also gave some knowledge about triceps and quadriceps to Mr. Jatayu. In the Varanasi ghat, they saw the ‘Machli Baba’ (Fishy Hermit). The Lodge manger said that the local devotees of Varanasi are of the opinion that the hermit crossed the Ganges to reach the Ghat. The hermit used to give the dried skin pieces of the fishes to his devotees. Beside the hermit, there were women who were singing Hindu hymns. Mr. Felu rightly spotted a cheap tattoo on the hermit’s body with the help of his binocular. Umakanto Ghoshal also came to visit the Machli Baba and got introduced to Pradyosh Mitter through the lodge manager. Umakanto wanted a help from Mr. Mitter.
Next day, Mr. Mitter visited the ‘Ghoshal Villa’. The grandfather of Umakanto was hearing the gramophone. Rukminikumar was playing games with the pigeons on the terrace of that villa. The Senior Ghoshal assigned a job to Feluda. Bikash was the caretaker of that house. Actually, his father was the colleague of the senior Ghoshal. After his father’s death, he was living in this house. Captain Spark loved riddles. Mr. Ruku loved stamp collecting and painting too. Who was Raxit and Gandaria in this case was yet to be solved, but, the sparking boy gave a hint, ‘The object is with the African King, otherwise, it will go to Atlantis.’ The Mitter had to prove that his brain is his greatest weapon.
Someone invited him but he insisted to visit that place with two other persons also. The three musketeers visited his den. The businessman requested him to stay away from this case by taking 2000 bucks. But, he refused to accept the bribe. Someone fired from the ventilator, but luckily he missed the target. Arjun was a knife thrower. He displayed a fantastic circus by keeping the uncle standing in front of a knife-throwing board. The Jatayu was still alive and Mr. Mitter promised to take the revenge.
Mr. Bagchi got a piece of paper in his bed, where it was written ‘Saabdhan’. The Bagchi decided to leave Varanasi as it was a place of notorious criminals. Bagchi had good biceps, triceps and quadriceps but he used to regard his body as a temple like Michelangelo considered the statue of ‘David’ as a work of art. Pradyosh confirmed that the threat was for him but not for Bagchi. Therefore, the people of Bengali club should see the ‘Biswasree’ temple instead of ‘Biswanath’ temple in Varanasi.
Shoshi, the idol-maker cum artist was busy in creating the idol of Goddess Durga. No matter, wherever a Bengali stays; whether in Bengal or outside, he always participates and performs the Durga Puja. The Durga idol was ready for the Durga Puja festival at the ‘Ghoshal Villa’. The lanes of Varanasi are dark and haunted in the evening. The bulls and cows are everywhere in the lanes of Varanasi. In that haunted evening, the three musketeers were walking through a lane of Varanasi. They found Shoshi. Somebody pierced a knife at Shoshi’s back. Before dying, Shoshi uttered a Bengali word.
On Saturday evening or night, there was no program schedule for ‘Akhtari’ Ghazal songs in Lucknow Radio center. Then what was he listening to? Meghraj saw him and later utilized him to do the job. But, Bikash did a blunder by telling about Shoshi to him. Inspector Tiwary of Allahabad promised any kind of help to Feluda. The Mitter found the hidden place of Mirchi Baba. The next morning, Maganlal was stunned to see a fishy ‘Mirchi Baba’. The detective got the 3 inch ‘Ganesh’ statue as his reward cum commission and the fans of Satyajit Ray shouted, “JAI BABA FELUNATH”.
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