Category: English Compositions

• January 5, 2022

  On Your Lap

  For happiness alone why should I aspire? Pray keep me instead seated on your lap …
• November 30, 2021

  The Ostrich – Based on Sudhindra Nath Dutta’s “Utpakhi”

  [What follows is an English translation/transcreation of the much quoted classic Bengali poem “utpakhi” (উটপাখী, meaning ostrich), written by Sudhindranath Dutta. He published it in his collection called “krandasi” (ক্রন্দসী, meaning the Sky and the Earth) in the Bengali year 1344, which could have been 1937 approximately, according to the Western calendar.I am putting this…
• November 21, 2021

  To Her Eternally – Based on Sudhindra Nath Dutta’s Shashwoti

  Fatigued rainfall, untimely seeking rest, Lies in the courtyard, dressed in dark and green; …
• November 17, 2021

  যবে হবে তুমি পলিত প্রবীণা — Based on “When You Are Old” by W.B. Yeats

  যবে হবে তুমি পলিত প্রবীণা, ডাকবে তন্দ্রা গভীর …
• October 10, 2021

  The Born Loser

  ‘I wonder why nobody don’t like me, Or is it a fact that I’m ugly?’ This immortal Belafonte calypso … Click on title to read the article.
• September 26, 2021

  Ha!

  Soon after lunch today, my wife declared that she was leaving me. Not for good, but for an unspecified period of time. We were still sitting in a restaurant in Puri and she passed on her purse to me asking me to take good care of its contents till she was back. Amongst other things,…
• September 24, 2021

  Sankari vs. Mathematics: A Moonlit Night’s Tale

  On an evening parked far away in the mists of time, I had gone out for a stroll with a young and adorably pretty woman. Slim, charming and lively, she was my newly acquired wife, Sankari. I was around twenty nine I think and she must have been about twenty four. And, as I said,…
• September 7, 2021

  Thalia Story

  Thalia the Greek I met by the creek On a faraway noon …
• September 3, 2021

  Translation of a song by R.N. Tagore

  Far away, a plaintive tune …
• August 29, 2021

  Siesta (Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s “The Mad Gardener’s Song”) ©

  He thought he saw the library shelves Were packed with thesauri …