Paulami Sengupta is an editorial consultant based in Kolkata. Her poems (in English and Bengali) and translations have been published in The Dreaming Machine, Nether, Cold Noon, and The Sunflower Literary Collective. Her recent collection of Bengali poems (under her pen name Anjashi) is titled Bayosandhir Haraf (Boibhashik, 2021). Her first collection of poems in English, Maximum Love in Patel Nagar (Red River), has been published in 2023.
In this neighbourhood, buildings are trees. Across the fish market, sentries guard ‘Pine leaves’. ‘Rapunzel’ is not ready. Reddish-brown bushes hide its make-shift toilet, where masons move like shadows.
Rich loam is infectious. I would like to grow too. Rise high With sacks and sacks of sand and cement.
Workers will water my floors with lyrics. Contractors in shorts will wash the mud off their legs. And hammer the board with my name ‘Dust storm’.
Mythical Goddesses of Bengal Mythical goddesses of Bengal’s folklores, legends and the vernacular narratives, have always fascinated me. They are rooted to Bengal’s traditional rural moorings. Despite their ownnpersonal…
Bohag (Part 1) I should have put on the windcheater jacket before going out. A full-sleeve tee shirt wouldn’t have been bad either. The morning breeze in the…
Pancham: The Urban Timbre (Part 8) On October 31, 1975, Sachin Dev Burman passed away. He suffered a stroke while rehearsing a song with Kishore Kumar for Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s movie, Mili (1975). At…
Pancham: The Urban Timbre (Part 3) The rich variety of song tracks showcased in the film surprised many. Rahul became a sort of ‘Chote Nawab’. Senior Burmans’ ‘Tublu’ became to all…
Pancham: The Urban Timbre (Part 9) A few photographs to commemorate Rahul Dev Burman. In his short and rich career as a music director, Rahul has worked with almost all the…
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