Here, 5 elderly gentlemen gather together on the southern side of a big, man-made lake in Kolkata and sit alongside a tree regularly in the afternoon.
They are, at the first time, introduced with some adjectives indicating their physical characteristics: The suffix Babu in Bengali refers to an honorary gentleman, a substitution to Mr. in English.
The author's style and approach loses the casual sense and gains a more polished, serious and sarcastically formal aura.
As mentioned earlier, Ghanada is not the hero in these tales; rather he describes how his great ancestors changed the course of history.
They are shown to influence highly important historical events at different times all over the globe.