Tag: dipankardasgupta
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লোকটি স্বর্গের বস্ত্র চায় – Based on “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by W. B. Yeats
অমরাবতীর সূচিশিল্পিত বস্ত্র থাকলে মম, …
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যবে হবে তুমি পলিত প্রবীণা — Based on “When You Are Old” by W.B. Yeats
যবে হবে তুমি পলিত প্রবীণা, ডাকবে তন্দ্রা গভীর …
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আজ ভগবানের খোঁজ নেওয়া হয় নি
ভগবান ওহে, আজ ভোরে উঠে, …
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হাঁস আগে না ডিম ?
মেয়েছেলেটার মুখখিস্তি …
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হাবিজাবি ২ — দ্বিপদী
হাবিজাবি ২ – দ্বিপদী
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Dr. Sudhir Kumar Das Gupta – An Obsequy
The river of life, like any other river, flows forwards. And by the time it reaches its estuary, it is often difficult to figure out where it originated. This is not true of mighty rivers, such as the Mississippi or the Nile or our own Ganges. But there were endlessly many smaller rivers that had borne their cargo filled boats since ancient times and dried up, leaving little trace of the waters that had lapped their shores in youth. To discover the course these rivers might have followed, or even their names sometimes, one needs to trace them backwards. The same observation applies to human beings too. Unlike David Copperfield, who told the story of his life “from the beginning of his life”, some, such as the person whose life story of sorts I will attempt to reconstruct, left behind him hardly any documentary trace of himself. …
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Metamorphosis a la Vyasdeva
There was a pious King called Vangasvana. He was childless and performed the Agnishtuta Yajna to please God Agni and the latter, having been amply appeased, granted not one, not two, not even three, but a hundred sons (mind you, no daughters) to the Rajarshi. Now, it so happened that the Yajna in question was directed towards satisfying Lord Agni alone. And this fact pissed off no less a God than Indra himself. He was mad as hell. (See how mean and envious these Gods were? Always counting curses! So, to take it out on poor Vangasvana, he created a magic spell and made the chap lose his way. He was tired as hell and landed near a lake.