I burn as my heart weeps in This Empty Northern Hemisphere

April has brought me home this summer evening. There is a huge field of sunflowers Just beyond my garden; And over it are parasails...

Their arms lay limp, clutching the arms of the sofa - the one that's the size of a canoe. Just like that they sail as its oars, taking...

Sometimes light staggers in -along with the dust that it drinks many a night- and gently touches our dinner table, circling round the plates

I used the hues chosen from the back of the shelf in an art store, an unclean paintbrush that could hardly even catch-hold of the tints,

I took a deep breath; swallowed the air... I drank-in the cinnamon-scented winds and sipped the colours that they were so delicately,

The wind tickled my face as the clouds hovered above, and the gentle raindrops fell as tears on my overawed face. I looked up at the...

As I was desperately trying to capture this beautiful day, my eyes fell upon a sparrow -or shalik as we say in bengali- It seemed to have...

I was sipping iced coffee in the Coffee House; The same coffee house that had witnessed the famous addas that led to films, books, music....