The phone rang loudly at 12, Roxham Close, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was a Sunday morning and the Banerjis were still fast asleep. And it was nine am. Mrs Annie Banerjee managed to get up from bed and pick up the receiver. It was a call from Oil Dooars, West Bengal, India. Mr Jim Banerjee had come to Halifax from Oil Dooars looking for a job. He was fortunate to find the Sens who had migrated to Canada some thirty years before. He lived as a paying guest with the Sen family for a good five years. During this time he worked in a well-known hospital. Jim Banerjee was a doctor who had got his medical training at North Bengal Medical College. The day Jim became deputy RMO at his hospital he asked Annie Sen to marry him. And she said yes. Mr and Mrs Sen were completely against the match. Jim was after all from an obscure village in India and Annie had grown up in a modern city like Halifax. But Annie was adamant. She actually ran away from home to marry Jim in court. As per law he became a Canadian citizen thereafter. People expected him to become tyrannical but he changed very little.
