Woman remarries husband after 46 years

KOLKATA: A woman who presumed her husband to be dead after he had left home 46 years ago following a spat with his father, married him a second time when he was
found to be alive and well.

Annapurna Hazra, a resident of Bhatpara municipality in North 24 Parganas district, said her husband Panchkari left home in 1952 after a quarrel with his father, leaving her and two sons, Arun and Tarun, then aged five and two, respectively.

Panchkari went to Dhanbad, Asansol and Howrah before he moved to Roy Bahadur Road in Behala in the metropolis in the late 1980s. As the years passed without news about him, Panchkari was taken to be dead and Annapurna said she began to live the
life of a widow.

During the pujas this year, her husband was spotted by a family friend at Chanditala in Behala, who informed her younger son Tarun.
 
"Relatives and friends then tried desperately to convince me to return home before I finally agreed," Panchkari said.

Asked whether he missed his wife and children, he replied "I remember their faces."  He had also not forgotten why he had left home. "My father's words still rankle."
 
Yesterday, nearly half a century later, Annapurna 'remarried' Panchkari.