Nepal

First of all..happy new year to you all....

i am just back from a trip to Nepal...and Nepal is wonderful for photography...i wish i had a little more time there....photography needs time and peace...and all we did was freak out...river rafting .. para gliding ..and getting drunk everyday....

'I woke up and I had a big idea
To buy a new soul at the start of every year
I paid up and it cost me pretty dear
Here's a hymn to those that disappear "

porcupine tree

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Please bear the ramblings from Hamlet at the beginning..or dig it....

but the music is fantastic....always brings a smile....besides the movie is good too

there is no end ..no beginning..there is only the infinite passion of life

-fellini

contra:this is too relative...can give any fucker a high....

here we go again

anna begins by the counting crows

you know why people commit the same mistakes over and over again...because nothing else will do

sad and wanting attention......as i always have been

(and you are in my room.

its evening.....

turn off the lights and light an oil lamp

and hold it close to your face

you remind me of a place

where the children in white gowns

are setting sail on a river

full of oil lamps)

"these roads ..they tell me

one day everything shall turn into gold"

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(mayapur....some tree related to chaitanya dev)

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(mayapur...inside the gaudiya math)

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(the iskon temple)

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(could not resist her..... there are many foreigners in mayapur)

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(crossing the river... from mayapur to krishnanagar)

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(nawadwip dham station)

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(in the bird santuary in raiganj....those birds are sibaerian but look crap anyway)

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(towards sebok)

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(the gates of mordor...er i mean the sebok bridge)

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(oh this is fine art....this represents the cruelty of god....u wont understand anyway...)

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(in sebok)

(i think i am writing pathetic poetry these days....dont worry.....i wil post no more )

i am

people meet people

they enter their homes and close their doors

i stand between an array of infinite closed doors

and i think a better way to say this

is to announce "i belong to the roads"

and i wish i could stay there happy

proudly "this is me"

and if u got a smile on ur face

all the world is your friend

and you never feel lonely

wish it was as simple as that

thinking that i am getting old

i wake up from afternoon nap

again a cold lonely evening

and i pretend that i have cold

(thats what i do when i miss love so much)

and instead of my bike

i take a walk beneath those haunted neon lights

of this two year old township

and i feel i am getting old

and what i feel are all bombastic lines in my head

oh...to reconcile with my follies and follies of friends

i smile

the usual memories , losses and things left undone

the glories that i passed hiding

the urges that i denied

history seems like some criminal files

nothing inspires .......

random lines come to mind

"full of cunning passages and contrived corridors"

"the animals i had trapped have all become my pets"

i almost could disappear ..in this twilight air

this long lonely road

the evening engulfing me like a satin sheet

and i know this is not all

this is not all

(with due respect to Eliot and Cobain )

Water ..cold

Cold rain

A birds nest destroyed

Cracked Eggs on the grass

the water enters a farmer's hut

the river swells

the endless clouds stretch above

a mother sells a daughter

a hungry farmer commits suicide

the trees the leaves stay motionless

fresh with the pale light of dawn

into the mossy bark of trees

stretch stretch the indifferent skin

into the fresh smell of roads after rain

into the deep river by the hillside

i fall into the envelope

i fall into the deep gorges of earth

with my eyes closed ..alone

i fall ..i fall

(this is the first inspired poetry i am writing after a very very long time ....i hope u like it..it just happened tonight....)

the social network

yes ..i liked it..liked it a lot....

shows the epicenter of the present day college culture....

"two hours of coding..and a two hour nap"

but here in India mostly u find the wanna bes telling stories about "Victoria's secrets....."

in some review i had read the social network represents " the madness of the decade"......

must be an old crook who wrote that....

but madness ..yes...madness and acceleration...

the ambition and jealousy ...

a generation which believes" impossible is nothing"

The Nawab, the traitor and small town India

so i boarded the train..with a general class ticket for kolkata....and instead got off at khagraghat....

then i took a rickshaw to bohorompur...a quick breakfast at a hotel....and then i booked a auto rickshaw.....and we were in Lal Bagh.....it mostly contains the buildings from Mir Jafars time...those built by Siraj ud doula no longer exist....

Anyway the weather was fine..the roads are clean and new.....and it was not much crowdy...

and the fish i had at the hotel was very good.......

i really like small towns....the book shops without "penguins and random houses.." the bus stops smelling of nearby "fruit stalls and pan corners".....

and oh yeah amir khan kept saying"kabhi kisi anjan station ka ticket katao"...it was funny though.....just cant avoid the stereotype .....can U?

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