The man whose name is Parimal Ghose stared at Bepin Basu in disbelief in the chapter " Bepin's Chaudhary Lapse of Memory" because Bepin Chaudhary failed to recognise him. As Parimal Ghose further told, according to him, he had met Bepin Chaudhary in the year Nineteen Hundred and Fifty Eight. He remembered Bepin Chaudhary while Bepin Chaudhary had forgotten him. So, Parimal Ghose stared him with suprises, expectation and disbelief because he was expecting Bepin Chaudhary to remember him. He also assumed and reached to the cobclusion that Bepin Chaudhary has experienced a lapse of memory in Ranchi.