Happily ever after is so once upon a time...

"Sweet heart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, and grew out of fashion like an old song." Yeats shaheb

There's nothing half as expressly disinterested, blatantly bored and insultingly emotionless as that mindlessly onomatopoeic 'LOL'. Even 'Hahahahaha' shows you cared enough to laugh. And if you didnt find it funny, dont bother to 'LOL', please!

May 9, 2011

Calcuttans:Pls b so gracious as 2 remember that the footpath is not after all a ramp where u sashay down with your arm-candy(ies) at the slowest-mo possible taking 'show-stopper' to ridiculously literal levels.For us lesser mortals who need 2 get somewhere,ideally on time,this can be,just a wee bit problematic,u see.And in this sweltering heat,we could,I think,just about get by without that xtra bit of ramp-scorching

May 12, 2011

There's no word more convenient, more elusive, more explanatory, more reassuring and more confusing than 'emni'. Translated roughly:Just-like-that.

July 25, 2011

Parar je goli tay aalo taman teebro noy, du-ekta cycle chhara gaari-taari-o beshi jay na, badminton er net tangiye khelar prostuti cholchhilo dekhlam; full shirt er haata khanik gotano dekhe mone holo eder keu keu office ferta pothe CCD te girlfriend er sathe 'appo' korar cheye akhana khelte beshi bhalobashe. Sheeter Kolkata. Bhaggyish kichhu janish paltay na

Nov 14, 2011

The other day, our grandfather who is 90+ was recounting his days as a young boy in Bangladesh and taking us through the various reasons why he and his family had to leave. He told us stories of some of his dearest friends who became so, irrespective of their religion. 'Why then do you think a new nation was carved out for them?' Sourya asked him. 'All because of Jinnah', Dadu said with unflinching wrath. I once thought I'd intercept the discussion and dole out all the theories I had learnt from my books and temper out the rather sharp reaction. But then, I thought, who am I to 'correct' an opinion - one that has been shaped, not from notes and footnotes, but from lived experience...I kept quiet. Long live the tradition of oral narratives. And their narrators.