Poetry
Rainfall
First rain revives the city; alone, I drown in memory, regret, and loss – love gone, silence remains, hope fades in endless night.
April 28, 2026
First rain revives the city; alone, I drown in memory, regret, and loss – love gone, silence remains, hope fades in endless night.
War persists by diffusing responsibility, unevenly distributing costs, amplifying internal fractures, and making interruption politically costlier than continuation for all actors involved.
Across visual art, the eye reveals emotion and truth; in street photography, fleeting glances capture honest human connection and meaning.
In a small town, violence breaks bonds, but compassion restores humanity as two boys rebuild friendship across hatred, like a fragile bridge.
Mughal legacy reflects cultural exchange, shaping cuisine, architecture, language, and identity, urging plural understanding beyond politics and historical biases.
She was the Helen of Dance of Bollywood, which in our growing years attracted us more.
Moral language once unified war aims; now fragmented motives, institutional processes, and conflicting pressures blur purpose, shifting costs onto uninvolved global populations.
Tides paint fleeting stories on sand – gentle, fierce, human and natural – captured in golden light along Mandarmoni and Talsari shores.
Desai rightly characterizes Salman Rushdie as an Orientalist, but in her own case, magic is not a substitute for realistic depiction.
The Bengali calendar evolved from astronomy and empire, aligning time with agriculture, culture, and festivals, remaining vital despite modern systems.
Some historians trace the Bengali calendar to King Shashanka, who is believed to have introduced the Bengali era around 594 AD.
Thingyan festival, the famous water festival of Myanmar, celebrated to usher in their New Year, which coincides with our Bengali Poila Boishak.
