Child birth and marriages were not fixed by dates as they never existed for the village folks. It was the festive season and number of days before or after that day compensated for the dates. As per them, my father was born three days after the full moon in autumn. This was during the same period when the village was visited by the sage who walked all the way form Nepal. Needless to say, the birth date of my father was not possible for anyone to crack. It was his school headmaster several years later who gave a date to his birth. His birthday was the same day when he filled the form for his examination for his high school minus fourteen years which was thought to be his age. Till date we do not know the exact age or birthday of my father. My father recalled that the calendar from which later the dates were referred in numbers was gifted to my grandfather by the postman. The calendar was colorful and had pictures of Hindu deities. However this calendar was referred for several years for a lot of villagers till the time it was changed through some other gifting. The picture of the calendar was eventually framed and put in the hut which probably exists even today after eighty years of its existence.