![]() ![]() Perhaps, the only family in Bengal that do so. Welcome to the Bar family, whose members only use the ancient language for conversation at home. “Bhojanam dodami, kinchit kalam apeksham karatuh (Food will be served, wait a while),” said the mother as she became busy greeting us. “Ahom bubhukshitoh (I’m hungry),” Lachit tells his mom, as he holds tight a doll under his arm. ![]() Moments later, Lachit appeared from the next room riding his car. They communicate among themselves only in Sanskrit.(Samir Jana/HT PHOTO)īefore the four-and-a-half-year old boy could respond, his sister Dhriti, who is two years elder, answered, “Bhrata kridanayanen kridotih (Brother is playing with his toy car).” ![]() Pranab Bar with wife Moumita, daughter Dhriti and son Lachit at his Basirhat residence in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district. Griham atithayoh agoto bontoh (Come here, Lachit, we have guests),” Moumita Bar told her son as we entered the two-bedroom flat in a middle class locality in Basirhat town near the Bengal-Bangladesh border, about 75 km from Kolkata.
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