What does it mean to truly let something be? I feel like I am in love with someone, but she doesn’t agree, so I am grasping with my mind and heart every few hours. What would it mean for me to truly let it be? Is it the conceptual understanding? Of mindfully observing the grasping …
Space rock
When I taught Astronomy in New York City, in the evenings I rode my motorcycle home from campus, and sometimes I would stop to pick up dinner at a food truck called USA Halal, that stayed open late. Mehdi, the guy who ran it, had broad shoulders and a gaunt face that was always sweating …
শিউলির মালা
[বাবা বিশ্ববন্ধু দাসের লেখা জীবনস্মৃতি] স্মৃতির অতলে ডুব দিলে কতই ঘটনা। কিছু মনকে আনন্দ দেয়, আবার কিছু ব্যথিত করে। বয়সের ধর্মেই কখনও আনমনে সে সব টুকরো স্মৃতি নিয়ে চলে রোমন্থন। আমাদের উদ্বাস্তু পরিবারে আমার দাদা-দিদির মতো আমাকে বিশেষ ঠাঁই নড়া হতে হয় নি। শুনেছি আমার যখন আনুমানিক ছয় মাস বয়স তখন থেকেই আমাদের এই নাকতলার …
snippets
I feel like there are more people on my floor of the house, than I can see. This evening as I lay on the floor, in the quiet I heard scratching noises. They were quite close to me. Inside the floor or the walls. Something moving, then stopping, then moving again. Either there are rodents …
Liberation
[I wrote this in high school for a competition organized by Peaceworks, Seagull Publishers, Kolkata, that invited stories for peace from Indian and Pakistani students. My story was selected and included in the published book 'Stories for Peace', which it would be impossible to find anywhere now (this is the only place I see any …
One Life 