[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 …
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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 …
Lily-pad in giant endless ocean under a flat sky
I feel scared thinking of myself afloat on a lily-pad in a giant endless ocean, under a flat sky. There is no home. Float, float, float. There is nobody else. Adrift. It doesn't mean anything. Even my personal history keeps detaching from me, time slips away through my machinations. Who am I? What is this? …
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Crypto gets its value from magic
When I got into crypto and started buying some, I decided that I should think about where its value really comes from. I realized soon that much of what sets the value is really just speculation: people buying and selling because they think its value is something, and that’s what actually ends up deciding much …
One Life 