KAVARATTI ISLAND CAPITAL OF LAKSHADWEEP A Memoir—Summar1958 SARASIJ MAJUMDER Well, I was in Kavaratti Island (capital of Lakshadweep) for Two TIMES, both in my childhood. With an area of 1050 acres it’s heaven if you stay for 6 days and may be hell if you stay much longer. Just for the sake of comparison, B.E. College (now IIEST) campus is 1,400 acres. My father was running a very small manufacturing unit, in Dum Dum, and was also auditor for a few Marwari organizations. One of them was Mr. Paresh Khandelwal, having a small shop in Kavaratti island, capital of Lakshadweep. When I was in 4th standard, father has to go there for Audit. It was my summer holiday, and my mother decided that I should accompany my DAD. That was first time I was going there. I got very excited, collected books on the island and read. It was end of April, 1958. We reached Cochin (KOCHI) station by Train, from Howrah, and then spent the night at a coastal hotel. We got up ea