When I was young, I was a little bit of an ugly duckling, not that I had no friends, but I was always conscious about my appearance, and to get out of this self obsessing habit, I used to read, I read almost everything I could get my hands on. Reading opened my world, I travelled around places , across time and […]
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Together With Maya
On her birthday today, I remember ‘Alone’, a poem by Maya Angelou. A poem that recounts a moment in all our lives when we lie awake at night with a soul niggle that asks, “How to find my soul a home..where water is not thirsty and bread loaf is not stone?” And then comes the […]
Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934-2012)-In Memoriam
Silence the conch shells stop the dhakis at their drums the winter air this festive season nips sharp for the writer’s gone. His pen that spilled over into thousands of words and more will write no more. The writer whose words could make my father’s voice mellow and ruminative when he read him out […]
The Bearded Man In My Head..
I remember I wrote my first poem at the age of seven. It was ‘ Ek je chilo bador, Se kheto sudhu gajor (Once there was a monkey, who ate only carrots)’. My parents had a hearty laugh about it. My father, then told me that Gurudev’s first poem was ‘Jol Pore, Pata Nore’ (It […]