Category: English Compositions
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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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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…
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A Dialogue between God and a Lover
-`If she were to roast you alive in fire?’ Effortless death’s all I’ll desire
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Mirthless Town
Mirthless town, if your wish I ever could grant, A tiny river may well be all you’ll want,
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The Harmonium
I doubt that I would be far from the truth if I assumed that few in this community have had the good fortune of listening to S.D. Burman singing some of his immortal creations from a distance of five meters or so. I happen to belong, however, to the rare breed of human beings who…
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Obituary – Tapas Majumdar (1929 — 2010)
It is hard to recount memories surrounding Tapas Majumdar, who died on October 15, without recalling the reasonably large, but not bedizened, first-floor living room of his Dover Lane residence in Calcutta. This room will remain etched in the minds of his students and colleagues from the days when he taught in the Economics Department…
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A No-one Called Someone
Speaking figuratively rather than biologically, the link between Netaji, the name by which he was commonly known, and the man after whom he was named, though reminiscent of the Darwinian puzzle, did not constitute a missing category altogether. Far from it indeed, for he was known to have served in the INA and even participated…
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In Pursuit of Love
I have to admit that I do not feel too confident about this thing I just discovered, but now that the Right to Information Act is supposed to be in place, I can’t hold it back from you anymore. Those amongst you who haven’t already heard about this could even send me to jail for…
A KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD 