Love Never Gets Old “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” –Agatha Christie Love they say grew like soaked tea leaf for them. Abhirup placed the cups neatly on the dining table. Slightly limping, he went back to the […]
An ordinary frame of a very ordinary man, bending forward with a smile,to greet me, was freezed in time. Circa 1981, and fairyland descended on Mother Earth. A fairy sans wings made her way to all the tabloids under the sun.The ‘idiot box ‘prepared to telecast live ‘ the event of the century.’ As Lady […]
Life’s antidotes come in funny packages. My now, rather confined life is annoyingly yet beautifully juxtaposed to myever-on- trot partner. The surround-quite engulfed us. My life-essential in health and in sickness. From the period 2011 through 2015, tasked upon developing the Africa market, he was giving the continent regular visits. One incident narrated then, forms […]
Bewitched, I stationed my gaze at the edifice. The stillness was palpable.Trees nodded gently to the passing gust, as the narrow stream bordering the terra firma danced away to some unknown. On a customary winter visit to Kolkata it was decided upon, to fulfill our long cherished plan of visiting the countryside. We chose Murshidabad. […]
Let your coffee brew a little more,When the moon shines on sky’s corridor,The earth below blinks in LED galore,Saying goodbye to day’s mundane chores,Washing away exhaustion standingby that window,Twinkling night bows to life’s circling echo, Fumes from cup wriggle like dancing ghostsA busy puff brush past your spooky nose…. Did you try ’n fist it?! once told […]
Let the Writer’s Cafe be open,Let the coffee be written,The ting-tang of the stirring spoon be the music we listenat this quiet hours,‘Till the first ray of the sun touches the pile of creased napkins soiled by laughter and unspokenwords…..
The tongue carries the taste of rain,You, the scent of death,Dousing the fire, your sweetfragrance conspire,Cloud-kitchen churns in-uteroFrost-o-bed, Slippers lose memory by the doorway,Bare foot a prick of dew,Living in the pages of a favouritebook,Sleeves soaked in pining anew, The slow turn of the aging firma,Snatched of its verdant crown,Who knows they are stories ofdeath […]
But you are slipping awaySlowlyLike an endLike an end that signifies changeLike a change that ushers a beginningA beginning with a key to an excitingworld of unknownThe ecstasy of the unknown dunkIn happinessThe happiness I should feel nowBut…. When I closed my eyes then, my childhoodplayed hopscotch, When I will close my eyes now, I […]
I choose Cafe Dreamonic When the poets will walk the wailing leaves When the poets willWalk the wailing leavesBrown and crisp,Fill their blank pages with black,I will choose Cafe Dreamonic,Snug-fitted at some remote corner of the city,Order our favourites, just to get it cold,A ruse to sit and talk…… I will not mind the surround cacophony,Shallow […]
Words like mediocrity wriggle through Misty mind flushed in mediocrity needlessly inks Mediocrity of winter hangs like switched-off fairy lights,Words like mediocrity wriggle throughswallowed thoughts —Life runs on the highway,Walks by quaint roads,Loiters around bushy by-lanes,Bylines of fate are the diminishedStatutory Warnings on end-pageSurrogate Adverts…. It takes a sudden turn when — They, in their Dior Tuxedos andPuma runners, sprint toChoose Gucci over […]
