Quarantine Diaries by Madhura The global pandemic related to Corona Virus has made us live in silos.Our lives have changed dramatically over the past few weeks leading us to introspect about a lot of things. Life has been quite hectic over the last decade, when change was the constant norm. This virus made us appreciate […]
Guest contribution
I am in inviting some guest contributors to collaborate and share their creativity. Often I would write a collaborative post, sometimes I would let their art speak for themselves
অন্য রবীন্দ্রজয়ন্তী…. A different ode to Tagore
Another Tuesday, how are you world? India is reeling under the pressure of COVID19 still, the country in the fourth phase of lockdown. My home-state, our homestate, the land of Tagore has been devastated by a super cyclone on the evening of 20 May 2020. This has been a never seen before disaster, in the […]
Aftermath of a cyclone
By Roshni Ghosh দেশের ইলেক্ট্রিক বিভাগের কর্মচারীরা যা করছেন, খুবই প্রশংসনীয়। খুব অল্প সময়ের মধ্যেই অনেকটা রেস্টোর করেছেন ওঁরা। একটু ব্যক্তিগত অভিজ্ঞতা বলি। সাইক্লোন স্যান্ডির সময় নিউ ইয়র্কে থাকতাম। ইংলিশ ভিংলিশ ছবিতে শ্রীদেবী যে জায়গায় ভাইঝিকে ছাড়তে আসেন, আমাদের অ্যাপার্টমেন্টটা ছিল ঠিক তার উল্টোদিকে। যে পাড়ায় থাকতাম ডাউনটাউন ম্যানহাটানে সেটা ইউনিভার্সিটি এলাকা। আর চারপাশে বড়লোক […]
Housearrest…গৃহবন্দী
#গৃহবন্দি #দেবারতি ভৌমিক Author: Debarati Bhowmick Featured Image courtesy foodledoofle. Copyright reserved by the photographer. আজ অনেকদিন ধরেই শ্ৰীময়ী গৃহবন্দী আছে। ওর বাইরে বেরোনো নিয়ে নিষেধাজ্ঞা জারি করেছে ওর বাবা। ওর ফোনটাও কেড়ে নিয়েছে। বাবা সকল কে বলেছে, অসুখের কারণে শ্রীময়ী গৃহবন্দি, যাতে আসল ব্যাপারটা চাউর না হয়ে যায়। যে বাবা কে শ্রীময়ী খুব ভালোবাসত, […]
Smritir Opare… Ekla Akash Series
We have almost completed the journey and finally today is the last poem for this collaboration series. Please have a look at Debaleena’s other poems and recitation like the first one, then the one about rain, a song of hope in corona and mental health. Today, to keep the trace of not finishing, even when […]
Durotto…distance between hearts Eklaa akash series
Hello my lovely readers, Here is thepenultimate installment of our creative musings collaborations. While I am sad, the collaboration is drawing to an end, I am grateful for this to happen. I also would like to thank you for your encouragement that brought us this far. Please take a look at the ongoing series, Eklaa […]
Sudiner Apekhhyay…eklaa akaash series
We are going through a very troubled time right now. The whole world stands united, to fight the novel corona virus. But we also stand isolated. The nature of the virus is such, that it has created a distance between all of us. Mone hochhe, amader ghire dhore achhe jeno ek bhairavi bisannata. ( It […]
Bristi thamar seshe
What started as a crazy idea between two childhood friends, have received plenty of appreciation in the last one week. Some of my other friends and collaborators were also very impressed with our work. Today we present the second poem of our eklaa akash series. This is original poem by Debaleena, recited in her voice. […]