FOURTEEN WHYS
Why say, `the King of England does no wrong’?
Why, when the list of wrongs is beyond count?
Why did thousands from East Pakistan throng?
Why were they stamped `Refugees’ on account?
Why forced were they into an alien world?
Why, why were they plucked from their ancient roots?
Why West Bengalees sneered at them and quarrelled?
Why did they force their brethren lick their boots?
Why, why did no soul, no where, shed a tear?
Why, because it was the voice of England?
Why should the w...
< AGO--------GO--------AGOG >
Strangely enough, between two disyllabic information agents on either side, one adverbial, the other, adjectival, is tremblingly set a monosyllabic verb. While AGO stretches to the times we have had, AGOG, to the times we claim to have still in our store. Then while AGO is bygoneness, AGOG is becomeness. GO is, however, freed from all these nesses. It has no before, no after. In a sense, it appears steadfast, immobile but as the pendulum of a Grandfather clock, long...
ARE YOU SUBJECT OR OBJECT ?
`Subject of’ or `subject to’, subject of your personality independent of extraneous forces or mandatory social stipulations, having your own ideas, making your own plans, master of your body or mind? If subject to, you are not far from being an object, that is, you are lacking your own volitions, submitting to the desires and caprices of an authority, pseudo or true, controlled and affected by him, in short, you are under a subjection. Now, look at the following ph...
(The following is specially intended only for them who have/had been in Calcutta sometime in sometime)
Yes, she does so, she, my Koli, my Kolikata, popularly, Kolkata, British Calcutta. I repeat, she rains tears.
But such tears which no eye can view, such tears that emit no sound, such tears that deny in their
composition the chemical amalgam of protein, carbohydrate, potassium, ammonia, urea, sodium
carbonate and sodium chloride. Yet they are tears true, that are worded in her moans, groan...
The following is the abstract of a Bengali novel, penned by Saibal Mitra and edited and translated by me, which is expected to be simultaneously published from Norway and West Bengal and released for the public sometime in February 2011 :
Reared up since girlhood in a parental heritage wherein religiosity and humanity entered into a curious artistic congress, that Catherine Boor- man, originally a homespun girl in academic pursuit of Linguistics, shall one day fly up impassioned to renounce all ...
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