kolkata while tuesdays prayer meeting for soumitra chatterjee brought some sense of closure to his daughter poulami bose the legends son sougata chatterjee will perform his last rites on november 24 once the prayer meeting was over at the sree chaitanya gaudiya math bose went to the gwalior ghat the experience she described was very soothing and peaceful a room on the terrace of this pink fivestoried building located on 35 satish mukherjee road was chosen for the service we chose a room on the terrace clean airy with a lot of greenery the peaceful ambience of the place was just what my father would have liked bose saidchatterjees wife deepa and son sougata were also present his physical absence has still not sunk in for sougata it is not just about getting the support from him i have been so habituated to having him around his room is locked today i had to go inside the room to search for his pan card i couldnt find it it feels so lonely now as long as he was hospitalized i always felt that he would recover and be back home sadly that never happened he said now he cherishes their shared interest in literature and how his father had encouraged him to publish his first book of poems i am trying to find the bookmarks he made by painting on white papers and the poems he would gift me on my birthdays he said sometimes his mind wanders to his childhood when he would sneak into his fathers room and read books from his library he had seen that and encouraged me to read further it was from his library that i first read pablo nerudas let the rail splitter awake he had gifted me works of james shapiro and catharine arnold he encouraged us to watch good films i had even assisted tapan sinha when he directed antardhan where my father had acted he said adding that he too will be performing his last rites at the sree chaitanya gaudiya math i was there with my sister at the crematorium too both of us had lit the funeral pyre together and had subsequently gone to babughat to immerse his ashes he said