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Facebook chatter is a modern technologically advanced international version of the traditional Calcutta Bengali "adda"
After a month and a half or so on Facebook, I have arrived at the assessment that Facebook chatter is a modern technologically advanced international version of the traditional Calcutta Bengali … more →
Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy
আজ একান্তে
siddharthya wrote 2 weeks ago: না আজ আর গান নয়, আজ সুধু মনের অন্তরালে জাগা গুঞ্জনের আসর আজ সুধু মনমাধবীর মধু সেবনের মাতাল বাসর প্রা … more →
প্রভাতের রবী
siddharthya wrote 2 weeks ago: তোমার স্পর্শ ভোর হল আজি হল মোর ধরা আলো সেই আলোকে নিদ্রা টূটিল হল শুভ্র রাতের কালো কুহকী স্বপ্ন রেখে … more →
Facebook chatter is a modern technologically advanced international version of the traditional Calcutta Bengali "adda"
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drsubrotoroy wrote 2 months ago: After a month and a half or so on Facebook, I have arrived at the assessment that Facebook chatter i … more →
Niruddesh Zatra by Rabindranath Tagore
09th13 wrote 3 months ago: Destination Unkown How much farther will you lead me on, Lady beautiful? Tell me where will finally … more →
Kandary Hushiar by Kazi Nazrul Islam
09th13 wrote 3 months ago: Beware My Captain You have to cross the darkness of the night A desert vast and a hill of great heig … more →
Bidrohi by Kazi Nazrul Islam
09th13 wrote 3 months ago: The Rebel Say, Valiant, Say: High is my head! Looking at my head Is cast down the great Himalayan pe … more →
Tagore
thinkinink wrote 7 months ago: Some more of his short poems: Playthings Child, how happy you are sitting in the dust, playing with … more →
Gurudev
thinkinink wrote 7 months ago: Two authors/poets that I most admire come from South Asia. Nepal’s Laxmi Prasad Devkota and In … more →
Jaladhar Sen writes to Manindranath at Surendranath's death, c. Nov-Dec 1929
drsubrotoroy wrote 9 months ago: In the days before radio, Bengali society had literature and the arts to keep itself company (beside … more →
Reading 262, from Sukumar Roy
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rhapsodysinger wrote 1 year ago: In the land of Bombagarh The customs are peculiar. The king, for instance, advocates Gilded frames f … more →
Sarat writes to Manindranath 1931
drsubrotoroy wrote 1 year ago: These three little documents give slight glimpses of the relationship between Saratchandra Chattopad … more →
A Literary Find: Modern Poetry in Bengali 1914-1936
drsubrotoroy wrote 1 year ago: We have made a literary find today, October 6 2008, of a notebook of Manindranath Roy’s that … more →
saturday snapshot of me as /american/
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zaman wrote 1 year ago: lime green leatherbound thing to record myself in body baking in wood chair inside wood fence of bac … more →
the Bengali ram
zaman wrote 1 year ago: the land of Bengal was born of a single nail from a tiger’s claw.* the long curve of the nail … more →
indian boys in berkeley
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zaman wrote 1 year ago: all the indian boys in berkeley are sexy & dorky as hell with their … more →
Reading 65, from Gitanjali
rhapsodysinger wrote 1 year ago: When thou commandest me to sing, it seems that my heart would break with pride; and I look to thy fa … more →
A Philosophical Conversation between Prof. Sen & Dr Roy
drsubrotoroy wrote 3 years ago: A Philosophical Conversation between Professor Sen & Dr Roy First published in The Sunday States … more →
