In memoriam

There are 75 of them at the lawns and in his rooms of his ancestral house at Shibpur and Ghosh has plans to turn it into a museum,mainly for children.

The idea of buying statues of great men and women and getting them installled in his house occurred to him about 12 years ago and it was his mother who inspired him to do this.

“My mother has always been in favour of ideals taught by great men and women to be inculcated among children and about 12 years ago I thought that one way to do it was to have a museum of these statues and publish small booklets about the ideals taught by them. At present while I have the statues sculpted by students of various art colleges,my plan for publishing booklets are yet to be translated into reality as I am looking for financial help to get the plan implemented,’’ Ghosh,45,a bachelor,who stays with his mother and two sisters,told Indian Express.

In the afternoons after schools give over,groups of children are seen loitering over the lawns,looking at the statues and Ghosh is often seen present there throwing light on these great souls. The children listen to him in rapt attention.

And a host of celebrities visited the museum of Ghosh and heaped praise on him for the work he has done. They include Meera Bhattacharjee,wife of chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee,state ministers Rekha Goswami,Naren Dey,Srikumar Mukherjee,Kshiti Goswami,Abdur Rezzaq Mollah,Abdus Sattar,Mohanta Chaterjee,the late Subhas Chakraboty,DGP Bhupinder Singh,and a host of other IAS and IPS officers,MLAS,MPs from all the political parties.

“Union minister of state for tourism Sultan Ahmed came to our museum and he promised that he would get railway minister Mamata Banerjee here. I am looking forward to that visit,’’ Ghosh,who ekes out a living on private tution,told The Indian Express.

Ghosh says he has done all this spending from his own pocket. “A staute costs about Rs 15,000 and I pay for it from the meagre income I make from my tutions. But I have plans to publish booklets and get more statues and this requires a lot of money. So far I have not taken money from anybody but now I think it would have been better if I got some financial help,’’ Ghosh said.