tanmoy
an uncommon common man
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two short stories
It is amazing to go through two short stories at a stretch –
fluently and more or less hurriedly also -- having the author – Mr. Aniruddha
Raha – at the table next to me at Writers’ Buildings.
Both the two, probably, have been written in recent times and
they got published a few months back in two different periodicals. It is the
dramatic climaxes and anti-climaxes which dominate the important sequences of
both the stories. In the shorter one, the septuagenarian professor discovered
the secret love of his deceased wife with one of his closest friends from the
pages of an old book, while in the other, a senior officer identified the son
of his one-time fiancée as a job-seeker at the doorstep of his office and also
saw that boy having affair with the officer’s voluptuous lady-secretary for
whom the officer himself had been nurturing some weaknesses.
Raha – a middle-aged bureaucrat – deserves rapturous applause
for developing successfully the subtle feelings of love and languishment, agony
of heart and melancholy of mind. The characters of his stories feel more,
express less. They belong to urban-life and they belong to cyber-age too. They
run fast, grow faster. Despite that, they can feel and they can weep even and
they can make the reader moved.
And that is the u.s.p. of Mr. Aniruddha Raha – here he is
different from the others. I have the
espint-de-corps for him.
11/6/2011
Monday 19 March 2012
The Journey
You are always there,
from an incorrigible distance --
to watch my journey.
You, the inevitable, are always there
immovable, indifferent, indiscriminating
to discriminate pleasure and agony!
This is the journey towards you
which you don't know --
You -- who knows all and everything.
You are there -- in the distance,
which none can cover to reach you --
but look, I am completing........
from an incorrigible distance --
to watch my journey.
You, the inevitable, are always there
immovable, indifferent, indiscriminating
to discriminate pleasure and agony!
This is the journey towards you
which you don't know --
You -- who knows all and everything.
You are there -- in the distance,
which none can cover to reach you --
but look, I am completing........
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