The price of privilege

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To have loved and in vain

It’s been long since I last met Priscilla, Years probably.. When I last met her, I didn’t know it was the last time I was meeting her. But then again, I knew it in my guts that I would never meet her again.. She went to a far away country for someone who would never come to a far away country for her.. But she went nonetheless.. It was not my place to stop her.. Who was I to stop her? I was…

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Junkyard

I woke up today morning and I took a chunk of my own dreams from last night and I threw it away in the backyard of our house.I saw a slice of yesterday’s expectations lying there next to the dustbin waiting to rot..A feast for the drosophila bees now.I came back to our kitchen and was about to toast the bread, when I opened the fridge, to take out some eggs…I had thought if I kept your promises…

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Burning

Statutory warning : contains indications of graphic violence to self, indecent, promiscuous and hurtful behaviour towards others along with desires of self harm. Any similarities with any person living or dedicated is purely coincidental.. Dedicated to “Xanny” by Billie Eilish.. Does his name make your stomach churn?Does the sight of him, make you wanna overdose on xanny, so that you can live a…

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Aurora

You were the aurora of my life..You lit up my life for half a year..then you left me in darkness for the rest,I hate myself for loving you,God knows I did my best..Dreary winter days filled with hope,you were around since,you should stay, you would stay,I really was convinced.and then you left,alone you left,me and my loneliness,I was lonelier now,with some added hopelessness..how to trust?how to…

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HOME-Ayana Sarkar, 25th june, 2021

I have never wanted to build a small cosy cottage on a hill and call it home..there was one time though, I’ve felt like home in the mountains..Honestly, I myself like the city better.I like busy, crowded streets and congested railways and subways..And occassionally I befriend my uber driver and he tells me all about his struggles ,and how he loves his familyand also that he’s desperate to go home…

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Losing Things..

There’s a blackhole in my pocket,And all my keys seem to get lost there. Maybe in one of my previous lives, I was a witch like Hermione Granger,And I must have placed an undetectable extension charm on my pockets.I must have forgotten about it by now, given I forget about my keys everyday.. There are wormholes in my pockets,No matter how sure I am that I put it in one,I always end up finding it…

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তপতী সান্যালের প্রেমের গল্প না, তপতীকে ভালোবাসতে পারলনা অনিমেষ। অন্য কাউকে ভালবাসতে পেরেছিল কিনা সেটা আর জানা হয়নি তপতীর। তপতী ফিরে এসেছিল কলকাতা। কলকাতাতে জীবনটা অন্য রকম তো, তাই!

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A word on the Hathras Rape case (28th September, 2020)

The survivor is battling for her life, at a medical college in Aligarh. My thoughts are with her. I wish her a speedy recovery. If we don’t rise in Rage now, then when?? When is the time right!

Caste and gender based violence have increased many-fold in India over the last couple of months. And will continue to rise, given the complete collapse of financial and social order India is facing.…

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Now There's No One

Now There’s No One

Koi nahi hai.. Hai koi bhi nahi jo batlaye, Mai kitni der ujalon ki raah dekhu, Koi nahi hai, Paas na door, Ek yaar hai. Zindagi hai, jo jiye jaati hai, Khoon ke ghut piye jaati hai..

Today I tried to write an English poem based on the above hindi nazm..

Now, there’s no one. No one to tell me, How long to hold on. The point of this life, And why the trouble of moving on..? There was once a ray of hope,

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তুমি আসবে Geetanjali Rai এর লেখা "tum aoge" কবিতার অনুবাদ করলাম আজ। আমি তারাদের জিজ্ঞেস করেছিলাম,হলুদ গোলাপের পাপড়ি গুলো কেও,

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Love’s Perseverance I love you from a distance, Where you know not of my existence. Such is my persistence,

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On the context of credit-based teaching/ compulsory teaching assistantships for PhD students proposed in the NEP 2020.

On the context of credit-based teaching/ compulsory teaching assistantships for PhD students proposed in the NEP 2020.

     Ayana Sarkar, INSPIRE Fellow (Department of Physics), Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, 

As a PhD scholar at the Shiv Nadar University (SNU) which is undoubtedly one of the best private universities in India, especially in the natural sciences, this entry to the NEP2020 does not surprise me at all and I welcome this step. Students in various institutes across India had been doing it…

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On the context of serological surveys and antibody tests

**This is not a Covid test, but IgG detection is an important aspect of serological surveys and finds out whether there has been a previous infection.**

**Serological survey** is possibly the most informative and straight forward technique available to deduce the dynamics of infection spread and also a population’s susceptibility and level of immunity.

These tests look for antibodies in…

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কেউ কাউকে কখনো পায়েনা

শরীরটা শুধু রক্ত-হাড়-মাংস নয়,

ছিল মন,

ছিল আত্মা, আর ছিল,

বিশেষ কাউকে খুঁজে পাওয়ার ইচ্ছা।

নারীরা কাচের বয়াম দেওয়ালে ছুড়ে মারে, পুরুষেরা করে অতিরিক্ত মদ্যপান, মায়েরা সন্তানকে আঁকড়ে ধরে বাঁচে, আর বামপন্থীরা দিনবদলের গান। কিন্তু কেউ কাউকে কখনো পায় না।

নিয়তির নির্মম পরিহাস মেনে নিয়ে, শুধু খুঁজতে থাকে বিছানায় উঠে বসে, কিংবা হামাগুড়ি দিয়ে তার নিচেতে। রক্ত মাংস আমাদের হাড়গোড় ঢেকে…

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কিছুই পাওয়া হলনা

অনেক কিছুই পাওয়া হলনা। অনেক না পাওয়া জমে গিয়ে, পরে আছে শুধু, দ্বিধা আর ছলনা। পাহাড় হলো না, সমুদ্র, সুচেতনার চেয়েও বহু দূরে, অনেক সংগ্রামের পরেও, দিন বদল হল না। নিবিড় অরণ্যে প্রেমিকের ভালোবাসা, আর তোমার চোখে, আমার জন্যে অপেক্ষার ভাষা, কোনোটাই দেখা হলো না। নাহ্! প্রায় কিছুই তো পাওয়া হল না।

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To my comrade

 (Ayana Sarkar, 20th July, 2020)

This dream for a better day is not solely yours, it’s mine too. 

I have inherited this dream,

As it had been my parents’ too. 

You and I, dream of a different world,

A world where, it is the rule of the land,

to stand with each other,

And to think of another as a human being. 

This has been my eternal dream.

This possibly was the dream…

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