Recent events
"Khudhatoor shishu chai na swaraj,
chai duti bhaat ektu noon...."
A hungry child does not seek political freedom ,only some rice and salt....
(Nazrul Islam)
The End of An Affair
I began writing at a very young age, leveraging the ability (primarily) as a defense mechanism, in view of an inherent inability to meaningfully participate and excel in physical activities. In my growing up years, all the young adults around me were significantly older than I was, and I never made proactive attempts to engage with them. My earliest memories of my childhood would be penning down an imaginary lineup of make-belief players representing An-All Star Cricket Team (which borrowed its name from the title of a book that I’d discovered detailing the adventures of a young Bee called Buzzwing) and batting and bowling to oneself and using the Furniture in my Living Room as make-belief fielders. The players in my team were people I’d read about (primarily authors of comic strips who would be featured in the daily newspaper) or media personalities and how they performed in these matches were often an outcome of my perceptions of how their cricketing abilities wou...