What a read!!This is the kind of book that can help change the world, heal it, and make it a better place! It also has the power to redefine what it means to read really good literature. I will keep it simple: This novel should be read by everybody. And I will repeat my friend Peter Donnelly's words here—> “I…
Woman in a Blue-Sequinned Dress (This is a poem I had written one night while in London. In the morning that day I had seen many lads and ladies wearing graduation cloaks and caps and gathering outside our hotel. It was easy to tell what it was about. That very night as dad and I returned back home (our hotel), coleslaw…
(A Japanese Folktale) With an incident from real life Written by Nilanjana Haldar Illustrations by Nilanjana Haldar Video (at the bottom) narrated by Nilanjana Haldar ( with live cinematographic sounds and other effects. Grab your earphones, and a pack of popcorns to start the ride : ) ) 2:30 p.m. Sunday, 7th July 2019. I was about to leave for…
By Nilanjana Haldar I have always wondered if there was any necessity for me to pen down this article but as I looked back to my years of strife for truth, I recalled how difficult my journey had been given the elusiveness of the real-life examples of self-realisation that I barely recognised as what I was endeavouring…
Oh Sir, they’re milking the blackfaces beyond the gate, Those bushy frowns over the fodder those mothers ate, Oh no, Gordon, I’m worried for I hear my mom call for long She doesn’t understand I’m at a place I truly belong. Oh look how colourful this alleyway looks, The toiler spraying out of children’s books He looks kind, Gordon, I…
I saw you knock the crumbs off the sandwichHalfway through your bite, you get jittery jittery jitteryYou want to rush, you want to hurry, you have to worry,I presume if you didn’t, someone would make you sorry.And then you stick your head up, angled straight up at me,Maybe splice your schedule so you have moments of carefreeBut were you ever…