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Identify
From the very childhood a child is made to learn a lot atleast in a Bengali culturally strong household where along with education hobbies plays an important role. Creativity plays an important and crucial role in every child.. everyone learns how to draw, sing a song and dance a bit and recite a poem.. it’s…
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Solemnize
The clock struck 8pm and it was almost the time for dinner. It was the time to heat the foods, and starting to do some arrangements for the same. In this cold weather it always feels a extreme heavy task as winter makes us less energetic and lazy. The woman of the house went straight…
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Where hides the colour?
Eyes opened to the breeze of the spring. The head slowly lifted up the table. Hands raised to rub off the remainanent of the temporary sleep which was now in the past. The mountain remained partially coloured. The source of colour was nowhere to be seen. The eyes dived into the box of crayons. All…
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Calls of Belongingness
I was enjoying a cup of black tea. My dear mother or my wife time its preparation every day with the time of my arrival home from work. It is not something I have asked them to do for me, but they do it nonetheless. The cup contains not just tea but also the love…
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Aromatic and Memorable Winter
It was 2080, In one lovely afternoon…. winter with the time of sweets, patali gur (Gur is jaggery in Bengali) and aroma of authentic saak (Green leafy vegetables in Bengali) it’s the time of making pithe and payesh. Bengali household tales. This winter was special not just of prime sweet culture but also the only…
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A Sip of Warmth, a Bite of Emotion
What snack would you eat right now? A saucepan was on the induction. Inside it the tea leaves were busy turning the water into a hot beverage. The steam had started to knock on the lid. The tea vendor removed the lid and steam rushed out in waves and spread out. The aromatic compound released…
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Ascend
What is your mission? The sunlight had sufficiently lit this corridor of the school. On oneside of the corridor were rooms in adjacent arrangement. Each room hadonly one door to enter and leave. The doors were painted castletongreen to match the overall theme of the school. The other side of the corridor was open, apart…
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The college meant architectural beauty
What colleges have you attended? Colleges. Roma do remember her university quite well as it is one of the oldest and one of most beautiful with all the architectural beauty. She stills remembers when she first visited this college. With a confused look on her face she had to face numerous labyrinth to exactly reach…
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A Memory Lived & Remembered
What is the greatest gift someone could give you? The rectangular drawing room was neatly arranged. The dining table was on one end of the room. It had three dining chairs, one chair each on the three sides of the table and on the fourth side was the wall. The cobalt blue tablecloth on the…
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The Play ‘time’
Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you? The Sun was not being merciful to us. The two of us walked almost dragging every part of our body. Sweating profusely, we moved on. We didn’t lack motivation; we had just overestimated the limits of our energy and abilities. We stopped under…
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Prelude of a New Year
What are your biggest challenges? The two plastic dice rolled against the glass top of the table for the 4th time. “You know what is turning out to be a big challenge right now? Getting a 7,” spoke my cousin as he put the two dice back into the dice cup and then rolled them…
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The creative Thought
The wood grain was very distinctly visible through the neatly cleaned glass which covered its surface. If one looked closely then a sparse layer of dust could be seen beneath the glass. At the other side of the table, beneath the glass were a few visiting cards and a small family photograph. A sheet of…
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A simple desk
You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like? Simple set up ignites the soul. The burning soul where I want to write. Write. Write but what? May be dark days, positive days, days with emotions controlled and days with freeness of emotions . I want to explain our life…
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Pursuit
Just few days more and then we will stepping towards the new year 2024. Hope you all have an peaceful end of year 2023 and have a sumptuous beginning of 2024 and also a productive end of 2024 for you and your family. So let us know today’s story of how little Tara developed a…
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The Listener
I gave a slight twist to my wrist; the display of my smartwatch woke up to reveal the present time. It was 9:08 am. I stared out the glass partition on my right, there were a few people. With the exception of some, the other shops hadn’t yet opened. I returned back to what I…
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The Year-The Time-The World
Share what you know about the year you were born. One day I woke up from sleep in my grandparents’ house and realised I had woken up in this world with a new consciousness. Maybe it was due to good sleep or I was having an intriguing dream, but I know one thing for certain…
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Confounding Emotions
Tears escaped her eyes and went on their way down. They left a trail of small droplets in their passing. Some of the droplets became part of the tears later. Eventually, they were wiped off with bare hand at first and later with a partially wet handkerchief. “Why do people fail to understand me? I…
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Moonlit Stroll
On night, I couldn’t find any trace of sleep in any part of my mind and my body did not seem to be all that tired as well. It wasn’t odd for me in my comparatively younger days, but it was certainly now; since nowadays at the end of the day I am sufficiently tired…
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Injudicious
“My father passed away when me and my brother were still small kids. My mother never thought that there would be any need to be qualified beyond school education because she belonged to a financially well-off family, my grandparents weren’t bothered by this as well. My father didn’t mind my mother becoming a house wife…
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Lucky!
Hi, Do you know the best way to understand how much privileged you are is to visit the nearest charity house or old age home and see. Just observe the situation there.. to understand what they have and in that less resources and less enjoyment in life .. they are smiling. Often we complain like…
The memories that stay with us and the ones we create…
Early Morning Memories 