Arising from the Dust She woke up from the cindersWith laden wings alongFlecked with ashes of the yoreLissome, yet so strong! Her wings weren’t mere feathersBut, limbs of ores alloyedAh! Christened brash and brazen,The Phoenix rose from fire! Ancient Greek mythology says, Phoenixes were monsters resurrected from the remains of their predecessors. Monsters? I was […]
When ‘Savage Wind’ Sang the ‘Song of Pebbles’…
Yet again, I received a beautiful poetry collection, ‘SONG OF PEBBLES‘ by noted poet Asoke Kumar Mitra, exactly a year after reading his book ‘SAVAGE WIND‘. Possessing such aesthetically done and soulfully written collection of poems in itself is quite gladdening. While reading it, is all the more blissful. So, when I thought of writing […]
The Wrong Turn: A New Kahaani told by Vidya Balan
Time: 28th February 2017 Location: The Junkyard Café, Bandra, Mumbai Indian Sub-continent’s pioneer English language publication house Om Books International has another great book for the readers. ‘The Wrong Turn: Love and Betrayal in the Times of Netaji is co-authored by Creative Director of HTA and a social activist Namita Roy Ghose and the airline […]
The Story of A Suicide: The Void beneath the Complex Mind
This post won first prize among 475 entries in Indiblogger’s ‘Story of a Suicide’ Book Review/ Indichange contest sponsored by Nalandaway! They ended their lives and I wondered, why? When I was a kid, I witnessed two women committing suicide under my vicinity. One of them, my neighbor’s wife, simply ended her life because […]