Category: OTHER COMPOSITIONS

• November 17, 2014

  The Black Legend

  Published in The Telegraph, Calcutta on November 17, 2014 Manik Bandyopadhyay, in his classic short story “Prehistoric” (pragoitihashik) created an unforgettable heroine, Panchi, a beggar by profession. Her means for attracting public sympathy was a purulent ulcer that stretched from one of her knees down to the foot. And she employed every possible precaution to…
• October 26, 2014

  Exchange

  In its stead then, you receive A silent pool wrought just for you A looking glass clear and painted blue
• October 16, 2014

  গোমড়া মন
• October 16, 2014

  রূপসী তৃণা
• October 16, 2014

  পটল তোলা বুড়ো
• October 16, 2014

  প্রেম
• October 16, 2014

  Slips of Conjugal Happiness

  As I was boarding the bus that my hotel uses to pick up its guests from the station, I looked behind for my wife to help her in. But the landscape that greeted me was empty of my wife. And this was strange, for to the best of my recollection, she was walking next to…
• October 13, 2014

  কষ্ট কাঠিন্য ?

         
• October 11, 2014

  A Question of Right

  A somewhat uncomfortable state of existence. I don’t recommend that you try it out, or else, like Alice’s smile without the Cheshire cat, you might end up with a bandage without a foot.
• October 5, 2014

  Kamala Bastralaya

  As you meander down Manohar Pukur Road towards Rashbehari Avenue in Calcutta, you are likely to notice a paint store bearing the Asian Paints logo at the right hand corner of the meeting point of the two streets. I never had any use for the store, but have often wondered in the course of the…