Category: English Compositions
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Looking Back at the Sixties: Tale Told by an Absolute Nobody
Published by Presidency College Alumni Association in Autumn Annual, Vol. XLVII 2018-19 “True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy…” Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 4 Anyone belonging to my generation, when asked to conjure up his version of the Presidency tale, cannot…
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English Rendition of a Tagore Song — Untitled
When I shall not stroll along — my old habitual way Put a stop to rowing my boat — from this little quay With sales and purchase all completed Neither lender nor indebted I’ll never visit this fair again on any scheduled day You might as well not remember me then Or look towards the…
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Tryst with a Teacher
Teachers who stick to a syllabus bore me to death. I have always enjoyed being taught by teachers who didn’t mind crossing boundaries and trespassing into other subjects. Arithmetic mingling with geography, history with chemistry, or, for that matter, English literature taking a u-turn into physics. Teachers who lead you that way are eccentric for…
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Of Doctors, Loose Bowels and Françoise Hardy
She howled at me. I wasn’t particularly scared of a howling female. Of course, she was not my wife. A female in the shape of my howling wife never fails to loosen by bowels. But as I said, she was not my wife. “I want you to get that hole sealed up by tomorrow,” howled…
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The Master’s Class
Arup Mallik, who passed away on May 25, 2017, was an economic theorist from Calcutta, a city with an established tradition of producing some of the brightest Indian economists. He had impressed all those who taught him and won coveted prizes in India (he studied in University of Calcutta) and the United States of America…
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Of Prescriptions, Encryptions and the Pair of Pimps
Medical practitioners, divide up into two clearly defined and mutually exclusive categories. Those who write prescriptions and those who write encryptions (or cryptographs, to use old fashioned terminology). Depending on how critical the nature of the illness is, one has to decide which category of doctor needs to be visited. Under normal circumstances, …
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God Almighty — Flash Fiction #17
The tiger has turned into a great nuisance. Humans are worried to no end. It started with cattle and then human beings too began to fall prey to the tigers. People brought out their sticks, their spears and their guns and killed the tiger. But then yet another tiger arrived. Finally, the humans approached God…
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