Question

Why did Bepin Babu worry about what Parimal Ghose had said?

Answer 1

Hint: Satyajit Ray wrote “Bepin Choudhury's Lapse of Memory”. It follows the journey of a man named Bepin Babu, who is faced with a very unique problem: he has lost his memory of a single incident from 1958 when he was on a trip to Ranchi with a friend.

Complete answer:
“Bepin Choudhury's Lapse of Memory” by Satyajit Ray is a funny tale about a man named Bepin Choudhury. He is the story's protagonist, and he believes he is ill. He encounters people who tell him about an event he has no recollection of. This perplexes Bepin because he believes that only one memory is missing.

Bepin Babu stayed in a bungalow in Ranchi and preferred to have his meals cooked by a bawarchi because he didn't like hotel food. Bepin Babu had no children; he had lost his wife ten years before, and his only brother had died of insanity.

Bepin Babu was worried about what Parimal Ghose had said because he said that he had met Bepin Babu during his Ranchi trip, revealed personal information about his life and also added that Dinesh Mukherjee was also on the trip. Bepin thought there was no need for Parimal to lie about it, and hence Bepin must have lost his memory.

Note: Forgetfulness always puts us in a bind. However, totally forgetting a part of one's life can make one nut. Our protagonist in this story is disturbed by his selective lapse in memory. After all, he is the victim of a conspiracy which was a revenge prank by a person named Chunni who was not helped by Bepin Babu when he needed a job.