Author: dipankardasgupta
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জনা কুড়ি
গত রাত্রে মম গাত্রে ডানা মেলে কারা দিয়ে গেল যেন সুড়সুড়ি — অতি মনোলোভা আনা পাভলোভা — সম — তারা ছিল রূপে গুণেতেও, জনা কুড়ি।
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চিরিমিরি
চল ভাই চল যাই চিরিমিরি– সেইখানে করে আসি কিড়িমিড়ি। কিড়িমিড়ি কী রে বাবা? কেমনে জানবি হাবা? নাই যদি যাস তুই চিরিমিরি?
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Tryst with a Teacher
Teachers who stick to a syllabus bore me to death. I have always enjoyed being taught by teachers who didn’t mind crossing boundaries and trespassing into other subjects. Arithmetic mingling with geography, history with chemistry, or, for that matter, English literature taking a u-turn into physics. Teachers who lead you that way are eccentric for…
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Of Doctors, Loose Bowels and Françoise Hardy
She howled at me. I wasn’t particularly scared of a howling female. Of course, she was not my wife. A female in the shape of my howling wife never fails to loosen by bowels. But as I said, she was not my wife. “I want you to get that hole sealed up by tomorrow,” howled…
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The Master’s Class
Arup Mallik, who passed away on May 25, 2017, was an economic theorist from Calcutta, a city with an established tradition of producing some of the brightest Indian economists. He had impressed all those who taught him and won coveted prizes in India (he studied in University of Calcutta) and the United States of America…
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Of Prescriptions, Encryptions and the Pair of Pimps
Medical practitioners, divide up into two clearly defined and mutually exclusive categories. Those who write prescriptions and those who write encryptions (or cryptographs, to use old fashioned terminology). Depending on how critical the nature of the illness is, one has to decide which category of doctor needs to be visited. Under normal circumstances, …
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God Almighty — Flash Fiction #17
The tiger has turned into a great nuisance. Humans are worried to no end. It started with cattle and then human beings too began to fall prey to the tigers. People brought out their sticks, their spears and their guns and killed the tiger. But then yet another tiger arrived. Finally, the humans approached God…
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Of Crows and Men
I am either a schizophrenic or a downright hypocrite when it comes to my attitude towards animals. At the same time that I cajole my dog-hating wife to allow me a puppy in the house, …
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Krishnendu Karmakar – Unfinished Story of an Unknown Man
It is doubtful that any story involving a human life is ever complete. And this is true even for the simplest of nursery rhymes. Jack, we know, had sustained a skull fracture after he had fallen down and Jill had tumbled down after him. But we never got to know if Jack’s fracture was treated,…