Author: dipankardasgupta
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Haiku 114
helplesslywatching him crymonth-old First published in Haiku Dialogue, Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, 06 September, 2023
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Nisheeth-babu: Small Man in a Large World
There is a proverb in Bengali which, translated, runs, While Emperors and Kings merrily fight, The small fries suffer a dreadful plight! The words conceal deep wisdom, as amply borne out by the treatment life meted out to Nishith-babu. Nisheeth-babu sold books, but he was more of a hawker than a seller.
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Haiku 113
a quivering patch of tree trunk the chameleon First published in tsuri-dōrō, Issue #17, September-October, 01 September, 2023
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Haiku 112
heat wavea cockroach lyingon its back First published in failed haiku journal, Vol 8, Issue 9309 September, 2023
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Tagore, Savithri Krishnan and Carnatic Music
Savithri Krishnan (nee Govinda) was a fourteen year old girl who lived and went to school at Adyar when she was introduced to Rabindranath Tagore. She was a student of the Fourth Form and had no idea at all who this man was, when her drawing teacher came to fetch her to be presented before…
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Economics Department: Snippets from the Sixties
Written for Oikonomica, a webzine run by the Economics undergraduates, Presidency University. PROLOGUE I joined Presidency College as a fresher sixty-four years ago in 1959 and the undergraduate Economics programme in 1961. Naively perhaps, it was a practice at the time to view the college as the best undergraduate institution in town (or even the…
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Earthlings – Tanka (Prose) 5
Befuddled villagers stare at the man wearing shiny boots. Shiny says, …
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Dr. Sudhir Kumar Das Gupta – An Obsequy
The river of life, like any other river, flows forwards. And by the time it reaches its estuary, it is often difficult to figure out where it originated. This is not true of mighty rivers, such as the Mississippi or the Nile or our own Ganges. But there were endlessly many smaller rivers that had…
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Haiku 111
her graduationto womanhood …sari trips First published in Haiku Dialogue, Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, 09 August, 2023
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Haiku 110
the empty rooma list of their white goodson white paper First published in Haiku Dialogue, Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, 19 July, 2023
A KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD 