Author: dipankardasgupta
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Rainy Day
The rains’ turn it was — to usher in the morn, As the sky stood lost — in the embrace of the dark,
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Figures in the Limelight
It was a pleasant surprise to watch the celebrated thespian, Mithun Chakraborty, anchor a TV show the other evening in which he restricted his guests from the civil society to answer questions that were sharply posed, instead of out-howling each other. Amongst the many issues he brought up, one in particular stood out. He took…
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The Man who could not be a General
Masquerading as an officer above one’s rank, it seems, is one of the gravest offences one can commit in military service. A court martial is the inevitable consequence of being caught in the act and the most lenient penalty one can hope for is a retrenchment order accompanied by a certificate of condemnation. The strict…
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The Man Simply Never Found Out
Keeping constant vigil over his left breast-pocket Alas! The man lost track of this world as well as the next.
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Lady Justice’s a Pretty Nice Girl
I: “In sooth, I know not why I am so sad …” Me: You are the world’s greatest plagiarist, do you know that? Why can’t you manufacture words of your own? I: How can I? I am at a loss for words. I do have thoughts of course, thoughts that perturb me to no end…
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Debu-da: Large Man in a Larger World
Come to think of it, you can’t really blame God for failing to make all men equal, or all women for that matter. Not to speak of the rest of the living world, starting from cats, dogs and grasshoppers, all the way back to dinosaurs. Inequality notwithstanding, God has ensured that what one loses on…
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Misson Impossible
Barack Obama’s desperate bid to rescue the recession-plagued American economy stands in sharp contrast to events that occurred in the early 1970s when Richard Nixon was in charge of the country. His bête noire at the time was the then president of France, Charles De Gaulle, who demanded that the United States of America pay…
A KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD 