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Open letter to Suman Chatterjee aka Kabir Suman

Posted in Awareness, Bengali, Personal, Song, Soul on March 30, 2009 | 71 Comments »

I was sixteen when I first heard your song. It was, ironically in a CPIM’s meeting at Brigade Parade Ground. I have always been politically conscious, but never involved in active politics. The only reason me and my friend went to the Brigade, was to watch Utpal Dutt’s play (most probably ‘Tiner Taloar’). It was [...]

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Open letter to all my Muslim friends

Posted in Atheism, Awareness, India, Soul, tagged on December 8, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Prelude: this introduction is unnecessary for the people who know me. But, just in case… I am atheist and against any organized religion. I am all against discriminating two human beings based on ‘my imaginary friends are different from yours’ basis. I am against all fundamentalism. I am ashamed of incidents of Godhra as well [...]

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Art of storytelling

Posted in Humor, Soul on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

At the center of every culture is a group of people seated around a fire telling of the heroes whose struggles transformed and remade their world. That’s true whether the fire is the burning embers of a cooking fire in the Amazon basin or the flickering pixels of a cathode ray tube in upper Manhattan. [...]

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Jinhe naaz hai hind par (Bilqis)

Posted in India, Lyrics, Song, Soul on August 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Mera naam Bilqis Yakub Rasool Mujhse hui bas ek hi bhool Ki jab dhhundhhte thhe vo Ram ko To maen kharhi thhi rah mein Pehle ek ne puchha na mujhe kuchh pata thha Dujey ko bhi mera yehi javab thha Fir itno ne puchha ki mera ab saval hai ki Jinhe naaz hai hind par [...]

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