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The Kolkata Bloggers Meet is making news

Blog route to big bucks
Karo Christine Kumar
The Telegraph: 24 August 2009
“If you have good knowledge about a subject and are willing to share it, you can easily blog. For example, living in Calcutta, I can start a blog on the city and places to visit here,” says Pallavi Banerjee, 26, who blogs at myselfpallavi.com.
A […]

Hail the Rail Minister

The Railway Minister of India is a powerful woman well feared by her opponents and allies alike. Her recent feat was inaugrating the extension of Kolkata metro line up to Garia Bazar alias Kavi Nazrul. Among her achievements are changing the meaning of certain names that well known in the Bangla vocabulary. Let me begin […]

I know you

Now I know that I know you
From long before you think I know you.
I know you from the futile blood
That spilled from a slit in my wrist,
From the first time I felt that thing
Between my legs,
From the shards of rain in the night sky.
I know you from the lines of my palm
And those that become […]

Bhailog fab aifei hote hai kya?

Here’s a man, a music director, a singer and of course a storyteller. Kaminey is a Shakespearean comedy of siblings - of brothers and sisters, all of whom like Abel and Cain, detest each other, depend on each other, protect each other and destroy each other. None of Vishal Bharadwaj’s character in Kaminey are normal […]

From your woman

Long for me
Long for me as a cigar longs for fire
Or the poet for a glass of wine
Suck me into the whirlwind of your desire,
Plaster on my body your juvenile fantasies,
Remember me when you admire
The bottom of an unknown woman on the street
Want me like you have never wanted a woman
And yet, make me feel […]