CHANDER PAHAR !!!

The depth of a human life is important, not the length of a human life. Beasts don’t kill humans. Greed and Hunger kill humans. While staying in a Hotel of Salisbury City (currently Harare City) of Rhodesia Nation (currently Zimbabwe Nation), Shankar wrote a letter to his mother at Naihati of West Bengal and started thinking about his past days. Few years back, Prasad Das sent a letter to India. Shankar got a job offer from Africa and that’s why; he resigned from a clerical job in Shyamnagar. Shankar reported at the Uganda Railways Office at Mombasa of Kenya Nation. Being a resident of Kimberley, Mr. Prasad Das had an overall idea about Durban.

Dinesh Patel handed over the charge to Shankar. The Nakuru Rift Valley Station got a new Station Master. Why no one stayed here for long if this job is a very secure one? In the jungles near the border areas of Kenya and Uganda, the lions are still very famous worldwide due to their man-eating attitude. How many of you have read or heard about the real story of the Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo? Shankar had to face a man-eater lion at Nakuru Rift Valley, though, he survived luckily. The very next morning, Mobiru and other Africans understood that something is creating problems for the new station master.

There is an old Masai saying that Foolishness first and Wisdom later. On a night, a Black Mamba attacked Shankar, but he survived. Snakes are holy, not men. Mobiru helped Shankar by providing him a Bolt Rifle and a Hunter Horse. The place, Bahati was nearer to Nakuru Rift Valley. Uganda had a Bahati Batallion under British Rule, where Somalis, Masais and Indians were also recruited as military men. Tirumalappa of Madurai, who worked in Bahati Batallion was sent as a Security Guard for the Station Master of Nakuru Rift Valley. Tirumalappa had a plan to go back to Madurai, but, that man-eater lion had some other plans.

Mr. Choudhury decided to take the sweet revenge. The age-old rivalry between Masai tribal people and the man-eater Lions of Kenya still continues and is widely known worldwide. Masais supported Shankar to kill that man-eater Lion. In Masai language, ‘Empika’ means a warrior. At that juncture, Shankar became a warrior. Masai tribal people of Kenya are so courageous that they use themselves as a bait of man-eater lions to kill those lions. It is risky but in most of the cases, the man-eater lions get killed after applying this strategy. A Masai don’t give a reward so easily to anyone. Why Shankar got rewarded by the Masai Chief?

‘Shanti taar jiboner sahajato dharma noy.’ A Portuguese explorer was lying senseless on a tree. The cheetahs and hyenas were trying hard to enjoy the meat of that senseless human. Diego Alvarez, the Portuguese person who was born and brought up in Chinsurah district of West Bengal started recovering his health after getting some good caring treatment from Mr. Choudhury. Few years back, Diego Alvarez and Jim Carter started expedition from the banks of Orange River to explore Africa. They passed through Drakensberg Mountain and across Atlantic Hudson River to enter a Zulu village.

Jim Carter gave some medicines to the patients of that village of Zulu tribal people. King Beza, the chief of Zulu tribe of the Zulu Kingdom of South Africa were very impressed with these two European Explorers and gifted them a precious diamond. After hearing the fact that within the Mountains of the Moon, there are so many precious diamonds, Jim Carter decided to go for an expedition along with Diego Alvarez in search of those diamonds. But, it was a high risk as a Bunyip used to protect the diamonds of the Mountains of the Moon. They ignored the warning and went to Richtersveld Range of Africa. Was Jim Carter still alive?

Can we explore it again? The Station Master resigned from his job. Shankar Choudhury and Diego Alavarez started the expedition. They crossed the Victoria Lake from Kisomo to reach the Mwanza area at the other side of the lake. After reaching Mwanza Port, they headed towards Mt. Kilimanjaro where Shira and Mawenzi are the two dormant volcanoes of the mountain. After a few days, they reached Lake Tanganyika, the 2^nd largest and 2^nd deepest freshwater lake of the world. Do you have any idea about the concept of Fossil Water? Tanganyika gamblers are more dangerous than Tanganyika lions? See the fun!

The gambler got tackled by Diego Alvarez in a smart manner. The gambler was passionate about gambling, maybe, that’s why; the gambler gave respect to the passion of those explorers by giving them an accurate map of Africa. They floated their trawler through Congo River and then they walked through the nearby jungles to enter Rhodesia Kingdom by crossing the hanging bridge of Victoria Falls. By the way; who was David Livingstone?  Yakobus Marius welcomed them. Attilio Gati, the famous Italian Explorer along with his seven sailors got some diamonds. Why all his sailors died? Was Gati having a Holy Cross of Jesus Christ?

They were just 40 miles away from the Mountains of the Moon. Matabin tribal people didn’t support the explorers as they were scared of bunyip. ‘This is our steps of stairs to freedom!’ Rock climbing started. After two days, they reached at a height of around 7500 feet. Why Shankar became senseless? It was Diego’s turn to give a caring treatment to Shankar. Some fragrances of jungle flowers of Africa are highly suspicious and dangerous too. As an explorer, you must always keep your marks at several places of visit. Bunyip already threatened them once, but, they didn’t stop the expedition.

Africa is full of rivers like these whose waters touches the gold mines, but, still, you cannot trace out those gold mines. What a strange continent, Africa is indeed! No one told them or no one ever knew that there was an active volcano in Richtersveld Range of Africa. Explorers don’t follow other explorers but discover new things and new maps in their own way. What is the concept of Dead Circle in a jungle tour? Shankar had a desire to learn the use of Sextant, though he knew how to use a Mariner’s Compass. Who killed Diego Alvarez? Shankar stopped the expedition and tried to return back to Rhodesia.

Shankar entered inside a dangerous cave and struggled a lot. Inside that cave, were there any diamonds? Humans have brains and Mr. Choudhury utilized his brain to kill that bunyip. The Master-Trap was too good enough to kill that foolish bunyip. Shankar started walking through the Kalahari Desert of Africa. To save himself from the cold waves of Kalahari Desert, Mr. Choudhury again entered inside a cave. After seeing the Holy Cross of Jesus Christ inside that cave, Shankar read Gati’s letter and cremated Gati’s skeleton. Shankar got 5 diamonds which was kept inside Gati’s boot. Did Shankar saw those diamonds before in another cave?

The glider which was going towards Kruger Hills failed to hear his shouts. Shankar was unable to walk at that juncture due to muscle pains in his legs. That’s why; Cheetahs and Hyenas of Chimanimani Mountains planned to fulfil their hunger. The surveyors of Paul Kruger National Park rescued Shankar while on their way from Kimberley to Cape Town. The Salisbury Daily Chronicles published the real adventurous story of an Indian Explorer. Shankar sent 2 big diamonds to his mother. By selling 3 diamonds, he bought a Steamer Boat. Where was Mt. Alvarez? Who started a new expedition from Beira Port towards “CHANDER PAHAR”?