Author: dipankardasgupta
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Kamala Bastralaya
As you meander down Manohar Pukur Road towards Rashbehari Avenue in Calcutta, you are likely to notice a paint store bearing the Asian Paints logo at the right hand corner of the meeting point of the two streets. I never had any use for the store, but have often wondered in the course of the…
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Train to Promised Land
The latest debate surrounding the government’s decision to hike passenger fares and freight charges for the railways has dragged a skeleton out of the closet making the country turn white with fear. As any undergraduate student of economics should be able to explain, …
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Prehistoric Memories — Radhakrishnan
But he did exist once upon a time. My classmate of course, a classmate who keeps floating up every now and then in my stream of memories. Among other flotsam I guess. I wonder why. He must have been special.
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Failed Life
In learning by rote I never ranked first in class.My teens didn’t cause me a broken heart alas.In wholesome praise of erotic love, I never composed verse.In tides of youth I didn’t swim, or in luxuries immerse. No lofty court my oration skills considered more than farce.A hashish addict I did not turn, to fight…
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Tell me mate, how we’ll ever forget …
Tell me mate, how we’ll ever forget, those days of ours’ of yore
A KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD 