Friday, July 18, 2014

The Role of Newspaper in Society


Whoever invented it, doesn't matter, but
The Newspaper contributed a lot of developments
To human civilization.
We cannot even think of our everyday lives without a newspaper.

People have intense faith on newspapers.
Wrapping food with newspapers people travel, as if
Newspapers do not carry germs.
When you cannot put fire properly, put a newspaper,
It burns at once - highly inflammable.

Want to hide your face from someone?
Just hold newspaper in front of your face, that's all.
It is being used in sculpting.
It is being used in building constructions.
Putting a news paper on a wet cement floor
You can walk ahead very easily.
You can clean up a dirty mirror with a drenched newspaper.

You can feel yourself socially responsible one
With a newspaper kept on your drawing room.
While packing furniture, there is no other material
as user-friendly as a newspaper.
One can create some sound effects with torn newspapers.
Folding a newspaper and holding it at a corner
One can kill the flies easily.
Folding them, cutting them, gumming them
Just make out some beautiful decorative.
At a railway platform if it is dirty
Put a newspaper on the floor and sit calmly on it.
When your baby is making it all dirty put hold a newspaper only.

A newspaper is eco-friendly,
The use of newspaper is beyond the limits of
Caste, class and gender discriminations.
Newspaper is a symbol for unity in diversity in India.

(Well, some short-comings are obviously there
When left unorganized, it makes your house messy.
Newspapers catch dust easily.)

But to consider the fact we would have remained
uncivilized, backward and helpless

Without the newspapers. 

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Yuan's Moon

"Look at that- a pink moon"
No, it's an orange one

Yuan pointed to the moon.
The autumn dust and mist
turned the moon look alike an orange.

One year old Yuan in his one year age
can speak three languages-
Korean, Japanese and Bengali.

If the moon is pink or orange colored
that is not a matter of concern, but
within his one year of knowing the world

he can see three of the moons. 

One Day at Pitalkhora

One day at Pitalkhora I was listening to the
constant breeze.
You had a lot of things to talk about...

I was putting my ears to hear a noise
                                that was frozen for two thousand years.

Through the constant breeze
I heard many things

I couldn't hear what you were talking about... 


Matchstick Monologue

Image: from a hokkolorob action, against police atrocity in Jadavpur University
I was a matchstick,
I remained useful for many-
In many ways.

Many people removed the wax from their ear with me
here and there.
Many people used me to clean their teeth
after the meal.

Young ladies made many decorative
before they get set for marriage.
And when there was an electricity wiring problem
I fixed the loose wires to the
switchboard.

I showed many games! Many magic!
many mathematical equations I have solved
and explained geometry very well.

I was a matchstick,
and I remained useful for many.
But the things for what I was born:
I didn't do.
Even after serving so many purposes
I didn't do things that I were meant to do.

I couldn't put fire in your hearts
for what I came on earth.

Yeah! I was a matchstick otherwise. 

I heard, some war is happening somewhere in the world

I heard, some war is happening somewhere in the world
Many lives might have lost there.  There might be loses of
many properties, many memories in the sudden attacks...

People could not make a war-free world
with antiwar songs and poetry so far.

Or the matter might be different,
some people could not make time
for music and poetry


till date...