Sunday, January 28, 2018

Widower and Strange Lady

He pretended to forget that she hates coffee
And had ordered himself sugarless tea.
She pretended to forget that he hates mountains
And booked single tickets to Baltic sea.

Transit airport lounge,
Bumped into each other;
A widower
A strange lady.

-Abhishikta


Friday, January 26, 2018

Sunday, January 21, 2018

Saraswati Pujo 2018, Miss Again

পোল্যান্ড এ বরফ পড়লো, সবাই বললো "আহঃ কতো লাকি!"
কিন্তু সরস্বতী পুজোর শাড়ি টা যে হলোনা,
নাড়ু, অঞ্জলি, খিচুড়ি,
হলুদ চারিদিক !
লাকি ?!
নাকি ?!

পোল্যান্ড, জানুয়ারী ২০১৮
তৃতীয় সরস্বতী পুজো, শহর ছাড়া!


Friday, January 12, 2018

I love you, very much?




It has been a forever since I said ‘I love you’,
It has been a forever to the forever since I added ‘very much’,
Lack of people, lack of luck,
Love, mush, caring touch.

Then they claim
And mostly blame,
Promises they
Make and break.
Then they repeat the show again,
'I love you, very very much'
In the end they will never fail to say.

And it will pass away.

Blame it on the situations such
That my heart still trembles with fear,
To start with an ‘I love you’
To end with a ‘very much’.

But they claim,
And mostly blame,
Promises they
Make and break.
Here is the repeat show again,
'I love you, very very much'
In the end they will definitely say.

And it will always pass away.

Abhishikta Chakraborty




Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Mandate



1. What did you do in 2017 that you’ve never done before?
Pee-ed in boys' washroom
Learnt to roll
Been in four different states on four weekends
Cried at airport
Taken solo trip
Danced in front of obscene number of people
Learnt to ride a scooty

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions and will you make more for next year?
Nothing kept, nothing made

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No

5. What countries did you visit?
Ghanta
In India,  Kolkata, Munnar, Kolkata,  Hampi,  Kolkata, Pondicherry, Kolkata,  Kolkata,  Pune, Mysore,  Mumbai, Kolkata

6. What would you like to have in 2018 that you lacked in 2017?
Money

7. What date from 2017 will remain etched upon your memory?
Too bad with dates.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Bearing the last one month.
2 absolute solo trips
Fighting office
Not reacting to certain people getting hitched
Reacting to certain people

9. What was your biggest failure?
Relationships

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Hello Retina dislocation stage 1

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Diamond for Maa

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Good one
Mine?

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
The sudden rush of possible prem and whoosh, for good, and learning

14. Where did most of your money go?
Tickets

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Pondicherry
Dates
Pujo
FS Mosaic performance
Scooty learning

16. What song/album will always remind you of 2017?
Kissing strangers

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

1. Happier or sadder? Sadder
2. Thinner or fatter? Fatter
3. Richer or pooper? Same

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Studies

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Believing

20. How did you spend Christmas?
Home :')
Woke up to Kolkata sun beside the chhader pasher ghor, had lunch at teriti with the school closest and dinner with the mother. As good as it can get :")

21. Who did you spend most of the time on the phone with?
Maa and someone who won't like the name here anymore.

22. Did you fall in love in 2017?
Almost

23. How many one night stands in this last year?
:/

24. What was your favorite TV programme?
Suits

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No

26. What was the best book(s) you read?
No book read

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Uhmm

28. What did you want and get?
Videsh possibility

29, What did you want and did not get?
Promotion

30. What were your favorite films?
Nothing, or I cannot remember now

31. What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
Went home!

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Commitment

33. What would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2017?
Overpriced pyjamas on sale

34. What kept you sane?
*Who
Ankita Narmada Smita (alphabetically)

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Virat Kohli

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Nothing

37. Who did you miss?
Shohor
Dida

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Oh dear God, none!

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2017?
People are lying machines

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?
वक़्त की क़ैद में ज़िंदगी है मगर
चंद घड़ियाँ यही है जो आज़ाद हैं