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.
The noticeboard near the lift reads, ‘Those who ruminate, shall enter with memories of watching Saajan in 1991, churning adolescence, at their own risk.’
People run between tracks, as the train comes close. Someone cautions me, I step back. On the other side of the crossing, there are posters full of love. One, two, three, four rectangles of delight, gleaming on dirty walls.
She, who crumbled in front of a giant mirror, is walking down the hallway. Balloon-like memories float over her head. Wisps of a past flutter on her hurriedly worn dress.
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…
When the quotidian wrote our notes of isolation We were brought up by folks who respected the encrusted time, wound their watches every morning, opened windows to days. They swept the morning breeze…
Beside The New Mosque By success, I mean paradise. Dwellers of paradise find absolution from their daily sins on a daily basis. That is why, to me, the truly…
Dolphin We listen to the crow cawing. I and Jhunu. There are no other birds, only a crow on the branch of the berry tree. We…
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