I was taking my 5-year-old niece to the park today and she asked me what we'd be doing. 'Accha amra park e ghurbo ar catch catch khelbo'(1) I said. She gives me that gleeful giggle of her and asks, 'Ar aloo kabli khabona?'(2) She loves aloo kabli above all worldly pleasures. 'Sure little one' Later once home, Nitu sat in my lap doodling an aloo kabli wallah while I was scrolling through my newsfeed. Up came a post about Asifa, some petition asking for justice. Nitu being the curious little tich is all, ‘Oma, bonu ta ki cute! (3) Who’s she?’ She goes back to her doodling when I don’t or rather can't answer. And suddenly it comes crashing in at that moment. I realise that somewhere, someone had seen a little pari like my Nitu and he hadn’t thought about ‘park e ghora', 'catch catch khela’ or ‘ aloo kabli khawa’, instead he’d thought about ‘rape’, ‘hatred’ and ‘violence’. Humanity was g...
No battle field hath seen a scene more ruthless This mind of mine cradles wrath and madness It sobs alone All alone in the wreckage of defeated senses A warzone I repeat 'tis a warzone! Of riven ideals and bare control Of a twisted heed and a beaten backbone I clash and strive and toil as the war rages on Good over bad or corrupt over pure Vile over right or triumph over failure It's still a long way for the fight to cease. Are you too a comrade of the fall? Weathered from the world But understand gibberish? Fallen and nurturing a sanity feverish? If yes, welcome to the psyche's war zone, mate. Welcome to the psyche's war zone. - Soumita Chakraborty
You only get one clean start in life. After that the slate is never clean. All your chances lie in doing something great enough to stand out among the smudges of past failures.
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