Tag: dipankar dasgupta
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The Neem Tree — Flash Fiction # 2 (Transcreation)
Some are tearing away leaves for grinding. Yet others are frying them in oil. To apply on ringworm afflicted skin. A panacea for a variety of skin ailments.
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Once Upon a Time a Girl: Not to Speak of the Cats and the Skull
Spring, it would appear, is invariably followed by summer and summer in its turn by autumn, and so on and so forth. No wonder therefore that as the spring moonshine girl receded into the past, other seasons invaded. And I grew older. And older. Though not quite as old as I am today. In fact,…
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That Patch of Green Behind the Bright Yellow House
As you cross Rashbehari Avenue from North to South, near the corner that never fails to extract a sigh out of me, you part company with the lilting twists and turns of Manoharpukur Road and walk into Lake View Road, which leads you straight on to the Dhakuria Lakes. In the language of mathematics, if…
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Loony
‘Sky resounding — what’s this roar for Fretting and fuming and a ruin of health? Living itself will make life livable Dying causes certain death.’ — His eyes lit up with a hint of a twinkle, As the tipsy signor exhorted thus — A swig or two need at most be consumed For what’s to…
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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…
A KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD 