This friend of mine is a childhood friend whom I discovered while attending another childhood friend Nanua's daughter's reception on 2nd June 2006 at Hotel Deepti. I was pleasantly surprised to find a few more friends of yester years like Ashok Mohanty, Jhunu (Sudhiranjan Das and Tulu (Purnendu Mohapatra). Unfortunately when I entered the reception hall they were all preparing to leave for Jagatsinghpur by bus. However this friend stayed back and true to his word came to my place the next day at 9 PM. I'm happy he speared some 24 hours with me and we both reminisced the past. I met Kialash after a long gap of 25 years and was thrilled with his stay. We both have some common qualities- both being bhakuas and have married in similiar fashions but it ends there. He belies his appearance being much wealthier than what he appears and has a very astute business sense than he reveals. But he is a great friend and always stands by his friends.
Sadasiv