The Door is Half Open – A collection of poems by Susheel Sharma susheelsharma.avap@gmail.com Reading Experience by Pritam Bhattacharyya, Editor – Pentasect I am not a poet and except a poet or being irradiated by true poetry at some time or other, no one should review a poetic work- leave aside criticizing it. I use [...]
As I write this from Wordsmith Ashram, North East India, monsoon clouds have started to arrive and the sky looks like a playground of elephants. This epigram is from Kalidas – the greatest wordsmith of classical Sanskrit. Pentasect has changed – washed away to be precise –in appearance, in form, in focus and in operation. [...]
This summer, I was wandering in an ancient university and quite absent mindedly landed near the gate of a shrine. The house of Nirad C Chaudhuri in Oxford. It was a tranquil summer evening and the lane was lonely and dark. The plaque records in most laconic manner a journey that started from Mymensingh, East [...]
From 2002-2011, I have been walking in the streets of Calcutta with highly varied and rapidly changing designations : Federal Government Officer, Private Company Manager, Un-Employed, Jobseeker, Vagabond, Emigree, ex-pat, CEO, Editor, Freelance Author and Translator, Business Owner, pilgrim, freelance translator, tenant, home-owner, Patient, Advisor, near-bankrupt and many other roles which I cant remember now. [...]
