Seduction Of Death

Friends, sometimes life is easier to define then a feeling that you heve never felt...."Death". This poem is an attempt to understand the strange mystery when life hangs in balance, when you just don't know whether to welcome the feel or just shun it as you have done all your life. Or maybe there's just a hidden beauty in all the gory descriptions of death. The Pied Piper feels humbled when the moment is thrusted upon someone and when someone tries to enjoy the seduction of the moment.Read ......but pause for a thought..... Seduction of Death - SAPTADEEP BASU (2011) My final moments of life....my last reason to live,To encounter my mistress in her last deceit.My breath grew heavy but life refused to retreat,For somewhere in me....yet a...

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The Uncrowned Prince

This article is also featured in http://scganguly.com/2011/11/uncrowned-prince/ How many times has a man’s journey been more important than the destination he reached?  The answer lies in a grey area between “perhaps none” & “maybe someone”. It is because the beauty & struggle of a journey is epitomised by the height of the destination achieved. It is the destination that makes a mortal immortalised, metamorphose a survivor to a winner and convert a prince to an emperor. It is what demarcates a “would be” to an “icon”. They are the “greats” who adorn the yellow pages of history and survive the tiring test of time. They are “Demigods” for their destinations catapult them to a league where common man can only look up at them...

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When you cry!

I have always tried hard to know why I make you cry.....why I feel so helpless sometimes.....why a single touch can change the world around us........why we love each other so much. Why does that drop touching your cheeks make me feel so vulnerable......telling me so many things that my jugglery of words fails to comprehend. If love is meant to be happy, why did I ever make you cry? Your swollen eyes demand for an answer but the questions fail me & I prefer to remain the mute spectator and let the silence speak for my love.Maybe I could never answer you, but then I can tell you the truth of what goes through me, when you cry!!! When you cry! - SAPTADEEP BASU (2011) Drops of tears trickling down your eyes,The pain of which I could...

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RA.ONE - Randomly Adulterated

I have never written a movie review, but then as it is said, “when things go out hand, angels descend to protect mankind”. So here I’m ready to defend mankind from G.ONE. Why G.ONE & not RA.ONE? Well simply because the latter seems to be a more likeable character. While both robotic and non-robotic Shahrukh seemed the same matching each other in idiocy, other than his awkward looking wig of course, RA.ONE seemed the potent character out of videogames with his mechanical approach, straight talk and crafted physique. So, let’s delve a bit deeper into the RA.ONE mystery. The movie begins with a long haired Shahrukh fighting the sisters of Bruce Lee named Iski Lee, Uski Lee & Sabki Lee in one of the most boring battles ever to protect...

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Bengali Fish Curry

In the global jungle of civilization hiding a Bengali is a toughest job to do. Whether it is for his fish tainted hands or his fetish for “Ananda Bazaar Patrika”, a Bengali always stands out amongst the crowd. Loving or hating a Bengali is your personal choice, but ignoring one is at your own risk. He is indomitable, a pocket dynamo ready to burst if wrongly held. He can fight for a 50 paisa for 50 minutes and still turn out victorious. Ki Dada thik bolchi to? Every Bengali can be divided into two subgroups, “Dada” & “Didi”, no matter in which age group they belong. Maybe it’s because a Bengali never turns old enough to be an uncle or aunty. However I’m often surprised why Bipasha Basu was never included in the “Didi” category! Bengali men are always “Bhadraloks” in their pristine white...

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An open letter to mr. Rahul Gandhi

Dear Rahul Gandhi,       I wonder what is keeping you busy nowadays. I even wonder more thinking about what your favourite uncle, Mr. Diggy (as we all love to call him) is busy with! Suddenly all his rhetoric seems to be on a pause mode & all your activism in a stop mode. Didn’t he just announce a few months back that you were “ready” to claim your ancestral Prime Minister’s seat? And wow, you just seemed ready in your pristine white kurta pyjama in the backdrop of rustic villagers, having your free daily lunches in poor people’s home (who cannot afford a square meal a day), walking miles under the sun and riding in a train. Perfect and enough isn’t it to become the PM of the most chaotic democracy in the world....

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Her Eyes!

I've been tired of people telling me, "Can't you ever write sumthing that doesnot holds pain in it.....it's happy...filled with love as it should be......well, d efforts are never at a loss, it's just that in the struggle of love and pain, my pain has always got the upper hand. However, last nyt was when I had a feeling, I've been longing for......a feeling where my words fail......a feeling when those eyes wakes me up in the middle of the night......the beauty of which I fail to describe.....my words are an ode to those eyes!!! (Friends I request you to read the poem with its flow, go slow to feel the mystifying beauty of her eyes) HER EYES- SAPTADEEP BASU (2011)Once in a while......I try to see the world through the prism of your eyes,Fancy...

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EMPLOYING THE FUTURE OF INDIA

  Friends this was an article that I had written long back in the summers of 2008........Infact it was for "The International Essay Competion-2008" by the World Bank.....Hope it would be a nice read for all.....Cheers from the pied piper till then EMPLOYING THE FUTURE OF INDIA INTRODUCTION: “Youth Unemployment”, a word often encountered in all the leading Indian newspapers along with poverty, social injustice, petty thefts and crimes, political upheaval, terrorism and all those words which a person doesn’t want to read with his morning tea. Words that are placed so far apart even in a dictionary. Then why does some of these words always comes in a package when a person reads an article about any one of them. Is that just an act of randomness or are they some pieces of a jigsaw puzzle...

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The literary vagabond

Far from the madding crowd Once again I set out, with some penny to spare and plenty of time to stand and stare. Summer it is I say on the AC as my hands I lay CDs, camera, pen and notepad Carried them all, I'm glad. The music goes ta ra rum pum and along I hum; A sparrow I spot and a lady in topknot. I take a turn and go bump Yeah, I missed noticing a hump. Silly of me, I think As my mind's eye I blink. Now I am away from the jungle concrete with none to run a rat race with; I race against myself with glee To all, do the same I plea. It’s about time I reached the lake To myself I thus spake. Though I haven't, I wonder why and simply drove by. I drove for long but came along none Confused I looked around, to catch hold of and ask a passer-by can...

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IROM WHO?

Heard about Anna Hazare, didn’t you? The household name of sacrifice and the toast of Indian media. Yes man, he is the famous Gandhian who has taken up our cause to fight against corruption. It took him a mammoth 97 hour long fast to make himself heard. Even though the government is yet to accede to his demand he still stands tall to fight. 15th August is his final deadline to the thick skinned, utterly corrupted Indian government and then he moves for a fast unto death. Dude, he is a hero. The discussion continued for another 5 minutes or so. Heard about Baba Ramdev? Man, are you kidding me! Who doesn’t know about the famous yogi? He has cure for everything from anorexia to baldness to heart disease. He was undemocratically evicted from Delhi...

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Why should we support Anna hazare

There are very few moments in life when one can be an inseparable part of history. The variety of history that appeals to each one however may vary considerably. For some, it was Indias’s recent cricket world cup victory when throngs of youth devoured the streets for a victory march across every corner of the nation. For some it might be Babri masjid demolition or Godhra incident that divided our nation in two halves. For others it might be our Kargil victory over Pakistan. The incidents might cause a huge debate among the masses about the defining moments of our history which we were a part of. However, among all the events we were sometimes the silent, sometimes the elated or sometimes the saddened spectator.  The moment that dawn on...

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The Obituary Of Death

Guys for once let this b the moment where the silence prevails.....and I quienten down for the Cold pangs of death to dawn closer to us......If u love it....pl leave a comment as to what u feel these words of mine are all about......I would love to hear it from u all.....aftr all..........Death is the cruel reality for which we all live & for once the pied piper wants u 2 croon the dirge with him.... THE OBITUARY OF DEATH                                                                                       ...

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