AN AGED COUPLE
4th December 2018
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Sixty autumns together they walked, And how many more who knows? Side by side they stood on the forest fringe And admired shrivelled faces and
SANTALPARA
4th December 2018
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Bored being confined by four walls, I set out for Santalpara Where I hear rustics sit idle whole day And drink, brawl and do nothing.
AMONG THE DRUNKARDS
22nd November 2018
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Twice a month I go to Hariahati and drink haria Among the drunkards, peasants and labourers all, Two pigs skinned and men have their
MY VILLAGERS
29th October 2018
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I love you, You are so good! You pledge your life For a square meal, Day you toil and night You sleep and populate, Evening
I SELL FLESH NO MORE
8th September 2018
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Gone were the days When men swarmed her hut, And passed metamorphic nights. She was a peerless beauty, Tall and stout, and an
AN OLD MAN ON A WOODEN BRIDGE
7th July 2018
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An Old Man on a Wooden Bridge An old man sat on an old wooden bridge amid the forest deep Beneath ran a hidden mossy
RHAPSODIES OF A TWILIGHT
11th May 2018
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A twilight scene at Kadambini Tea Estate planted long long ago by the colonial masters. Birds sang, the sun sank, and tribal men went hutwards.
“KUNJNAGAR”
10th May 2018
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At Kunjanagar beside the potholed street stood I at blazing sunset lone. The orange cloudlets scattered the western horizon. Slowly evening descended, and tiny dew
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