Then he did something he hadn't done in forty years. He sat on the piano stool.

"No," Arohan smiled. "It's just sleeping."

But Arohan’s most sacred memory was of the piano. It was a 1920s Steinway, shipped from Hamburg via the port of Chittagong, carried by elephants up the hills to Agartala. The last great court musician, Pandit Dilip Chandra Roy, had composed his masterpiece "Agartala Ki Aankhi" on that very piano.