Feelings of Kupibati!

Do you have an electricity connection in your village? No? Alright! Those who grow up in a rural environment, most of them may have close relationships with Kupibati (kerosene-run lamp) in the village. This lamp brightens the whole house with its light, softening the total environment of the night. What a feeling!

Do you have experience in lighting this kind of lamp? If you don’t have a power connection in the local area, of course, you all have used these kerosene-run lamps. It may be in different forms indeed.

Or now you are using electricity! Remember those days when you had no power connection and used these lamps for all of the chores you accomplished in the night.

In childhood, we used lamps to read school books after the evening. We had to go near the lamps to see words from the books easily. We had to turn off the light when kerosene runs out! Huh! Yes! It made me very upset when it would especially happen during the time of the examination or examination was knocking at the door.

Mom would then refill the lamp with kerosene! We read less at the night because of the shortage of kerosene. We read more in the daylight in those days. With kerosene running out, we got to be seated for dinner early in the night and also went to the bed early as well.

Now, it’s a sweet memory for me. I still miss this lamp. Don’t you? I greatly miss this soft light in the night with living in the neon city lights! Will I ever get back to those of the nights with Kupibati?

 

Khadija Islam studies at the Govt Titumir College