Month: September 2021

• September 26, 2021

  Ha!

  Soon after lunch today, my wife declared that she was leaving me. Not for good, but for an unspecified period of time. We were still sitting in a restaurant in Puri and she passed on her purse to me asking me to take good care of its contents till she was back. Amongst other things, […]
• September 24, 2021

  Sankari vs. Mathematics: A Moonlit Night’s Tale

  On an evening parked far away in the mists of time, I had gone out for a stroll with a young and adorably pretty woman. Slim, charming and lively, she was my newly acquired wife, Sankari. I was around twenty nine I think and she must have been about twenty four. And, as I said, we were out for a walk on a balmy evening in spring. Had I been Lorenzo …
• September 23, 2021

  অবৈধ — অণুগল্প

  অরুণিমা — ফোন করেছিলাম সেদিন, ধরলে না … ওয়াট্‌স অ্যাপ মেসেজেরও জবাব এল না। পলাশ – ফোন? শুনতে পাই নি তো? ওয়াট্‌স অ্যাপটাও বোধহয় কাজ করছিল না। কী জানি।
• September 11, 2021

  দুখী

  শোকাতুর প্রভাকর আপ্তে পারে নি সে কোনোদিনই মাপতে …
• September 7, 2021

  Thalia Story

  Thalia the Greek I met by the creek On a faraway noon …
• September 3, 2021

  Translation of a song by Rabindranath Tagore

  Far away, a plaintive tune …