Ikir mikir chamchikir

"Ikir mikir cham chikir,chamer kata mazumdar, de elo damodar, damodarer hari kuri, deoale bose chal kuri, chal kurte holo bela, bhat khae se dupur bela, bhate porlo machi, kodal diye chachi, kodal holo bhota,khek sheyal er matha."...hurray I still could recollect the lines. I played this 'ikir mikir' with my siblings Boney dada, dadabhai, sona, pupudidi, sumandada, abhidada and all. Then there were some other games like hide and seek, lock and key, kumir danga and how can I forget agun dey! That was a very stupid game where you kick each other with your feets and keep on reciting agun de agun de. Playing hide and seek was real fun as then many of us used to play it together. Behind our kitchen of Gopinath bari, there used to be a passage and drain. There used to be one Jackfruit tree. Sometimes we used to go and hide there. And while in a hurry, by chance if somebody used to step in the drain, he or she used to become shochi for that day. Nobody used to touch him before he takes a shower.
When I was in fourth Standard, Anka once came to Agratal for one month along with Keyama and Robi. Boney dada, dadabhai all were there then. We were introduced to another new game called Golla chor. That was really a nice game and most of our winter evening used to get heated up by the excitement in the game. Ludo is again something that we sued to play beside carrom. But I used to hate to playing carrom as mostly my fingers were not strong enough to aim the stricker properly. And so I used to score minumum and loose terribly. me and Mam even used to play another game called Keet-keet. Even we used to play cricket sometime with small bat and teniss ball.
It seems even before my birth , long time back in gopinath house everybody used to play volley or basketball and badmintons. Baba, Jethu, Bishum,Anka, Bhaida pisho, prashanta pisho, there friends everybody used to join for the gamein the courtyard in front of gopinath ghor and sometimes they used to get so serious over the game, that even used to stop talking to each other. Though there were other financial tension, tensions of struggle to get established in life, but still happiness used to flow all around and even though I dont belong to that saga I can think of the warmth that use to spread around.