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Of Valentine's... 20 Feb 2013 | 01:55 am
It is not the timeliness of the exposure to a strand of literature that is a reader’s often foremost concern, nor its timelessness of any greater import. And so too was the decision to indulge - as no...
The Impossibility in Finite. 7 Feb 2013 | 09:31 pm
You will grow old, your beauty preserved, glorific in its rippled visage; even in your manner, borne, a countenance of that ordinary burden of piety...but, even in that very inconstancy in nature that...
Beauty's Method. 23 Jan 2013 | 08:56 pm
* ‘Isn’t that beautiful? Look!’ she said. He muttered grimly, though matter-of-factly, ‘Dead too...’. She chose silence...‘So? dead yes, but can it not be beautiful...?’ Accept, the word that had ...
Jeopardy 19 Dec 2011 | 02:29 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Work was what he swore by, it was his passion, his prejudice… and the abject neglect of his objet d' amour , had, of ...
Branches of a Tree 1 Oct 2011 | 05:10 am
Movie: The Tree of Life Written and Directed by Terrence Malick; Featuring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunt...
Lead, Kindly Light 9 May 2011 | 11:47 pm
A hundred long years from now Who art thou with eager eyes That quietly sits and reads my verse? Do you feel, from faded ink, The joy of early springtime dawn, The blossom of this very ...
Summer's taste 16 Apr 2011 | 07:30 am
The advent of the month of baishakh signifies many things: the Bengali new year; the official initiation of the summer season; the several nor-westers that shall ‘wash away the old and worn, and heral...
Aha, aaji e boshonte... 20 Mar 2011 | 08:51 pm
I recently came across this song by Tagore, performed by Sagar Sen, in what may be called a wistful melody. It is part of the musical (gitinatya) ‘Mayar Khela’: আহা, আজি এ বসন্তে এত ফুল ফুটে, এত বাঁশ...
The Game 28 Feb 2011 | 06:59 am
“Are you happy with a tie?” Nasser Hussein asked both captains at the presentation. Let me say what I am happy about – that I just witnessed a game which justifies every single claim of Cricket being ...
The Interest of the People 8 Feb 2011 | 09:50 pm
There’s an article about a very inspiring event in today’s Telegraph, and somewhat apt, considering the present scenario in the Arab world. As has become a common spectacle of wretchedness in this sta...
