Showing posts with label Upfront. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Upfront. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

বাতির আলো নিভিয়ে দেওয়াই অন্ধকার নয়। কানের মাথা চেপে রাখা ঠোঁটের ওপর দিয়ে কম্বলের কার্নিশ উড়ে গিয়ে মস্তক ছেয়ে ফেলেছে এবং হাত দিয়ে শরীরের নিচে কাণায় গুঁজে রাখা বেষ্টনী। এবার কালো। এই জমাটের মধ্যে হাত খাড়া করে তাঁবু, পা খাড়া করে তপস্বী গিরিমালা। এই ঝুম দৃষ্টিহীনতায় লেনদেন নেই। ঠিকরে আসছে না কোনও অন্তর্মুখী জিজ্ঞাসা, অথবা আলো। কোন ভয়ের ধাপে ধাপে আসছে না ক্ষুদ্র থেকে দীর্ঘ হয়ে ওঠা ছায়াচরিত্র। আমি খেলছি আমার মতো। আমি ভাবছি কোনও রাত্রিজাগার কথা। পাইনের তেজ ঝেড়ে ফেলতে চেয়েছিল যেসব জ্যোৎস্না ও হিম হাহাকার, সেখানে। রাঙা হয়ে আসা এক উপত্যকা গিলে খেতে আসছে মেঘের কালো রাশ তিক্ততা। তবু তারা ভালমানুষ। কেই বা নিষ্কণ্টক। ধাতুফুলের কাঁচগুড়ো স্বাদ ভাসছে আর জলছবিতে স্পষ্ট হচ্ছে গোধূলি। পাশ ফিরে শুলে এধারেও অর্ধেক আকাশ। অনেকটা আঁকতে হবে যে। অন্ধকার তো একই রকম। নিজের ওমে নিজেকেই গরম রাখতে হয়, শীতও যায়না।      

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Untitled #10



বরিষান অবশেষ মেঠোগীত আদিমের
মিছেশীত চুপিহাত চুম্বন দ্যুতিবেগ

ঘষারোদ বাদামি বেড়ালের ঘুমনখ
কালঘাম পকড়ার, কুয়াশায় সম্ভোগ 

রাগনীল ঘাসজামা টিনছাদ গান গায়
কাগজের মাল্লা অভিযান পাড়াময়

রানীক্ষেত উৎপাট ভোরে ধূমকেতুছাই
শব্দের সিলুয়েট নাভিশ্বাস বনসাই

রক্তিম রিক্ত নিক তবে তার্কিক 
লাজে লাল ধোঁওয়াচুল মেলে দিলে পারতিস

অগোচর ফেরাঘর লেখা থাক দো'তারায়  
নামে প্রেম খোলামাঠ অপুদের আঙ্গিনা

চেনা দিন অবসাদ অচেনার গেরুয়া
ধুলোপথে রাতরং আমি-তুই, Kerouac


Friday, May 2, 2014

ওদিকের ওভারব্রিজ

ঐ বিঘে দুই, চড়াই শালিক, সামুদ্রিক, অপার যে
কপাল ঘেঁষে নামলো শরত আলতো ফিরে তাকাচ্ছে

পারতপক্ষ হাতের নখকে ডরাই, তবু খামচিয়ে
ক্রেয়ন ভাঙ্গা - ফরসা জামায় বৃষ্টি লিখে আনছি হে

'দরওয়াজা খোল!' চাবুক বোতলে গিলছি খানিক পরন্তাপ
কহ হে কান্তি, কহ হে কান্তা রাংতালাজুক সীমান্ত

সিঁড়ির নিচে ট্রেনের লম্বা ভয়ের ভিড়, হাড় কাটা
ধরতে পারার আংটি পরাই, দইয়ের ফোঁটা তারিখটায়

বাচনবানী টেক্কা রানী সাহেব গোলাম সন্ধে ভোর।
নৌকাডুবি শীতলশেষে। চোখ ধুয়ে দেয় আদরচোখ

ঘোর মহীয়ান, সান্ডো-সমান, তন্ত্রমন্ত্রনিপাতযোগ
বল পরিখা, টপকাবি আর? পলকা ঠোঁটে কি ভাবছ? 

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Untitled #9

In those very cloudy hours when retinas long for a
kiss and the deep tiring gulp you took
because you thought you could quench
appears struck still somewhere between the 4th thoracic and
sweat-stained leaflets, ready with a eager heart to have the next most politically absurd
ideology to be decorated in Monotype Corsiva,
and the beam of spirituality suffers a quaint convulsion -
you wake up to
a
culturally redundant conversation that involves
knowing the names of the best exotic homoerotic pleasures
the tribulations of being savvy
and pitfalls of a demanding routine of gnawing, sniffing non-sequitur manner of being earnest and smart.

I do not know, for in the space between my ears
several light years explode and
blankness reigns,
the same blackness the lays dandy in the space

between scripted conversations going in the palace and their failure to match
with similar gestures on the eyeballs. 

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Day 11

He is watching the spectre of oblivion floating above from the skin of cacophony. catching the messages trying to fly. You gonna hand the silent expressions. Set the charades for a lonely rupture. Blinking the darkness, breaking the clone. Moments of shelter, moments of frown.

The circles close in overlapping the time. Warm mist emanates, trippy dance ensues. It was a moment the decades waited for.
You gonna shape the December falls of strawberries, wild. Or would blunder the signs of blinking? Enter the sun, enter the sun, enter the sun.

I am most obliged to you for making it naked here, my red shoes wondering who would be writing the paradise bizzare or bijaare or out in the love of winter
trumpets blow
so low slow
so so much smoke
so so so ragged evenings condensing into furtive evening

And the sea isn't in the place where it was, trees are beside the houses in the forests made of trees.

The sky rolls back and lines fold there creep and dust closes hard, blowing close.



_____________
Old men, where it all started. 

Monday, January 6, 2014

Close Eyes And Laugh

A slackened pair of limbs on a 
broken boulders rolling down the cosmic, floating
luminous boughs reaching out to be caught
careless whispers running straight to your thought 
desires and 
claps of thunder in the blankets red

You should be hungry before dawn 
and piss in the river that baths 
my soft floorboards
my relative love erodes 
the honey that melts swinging coastal creams

And I try to left my feet off the floor but should his head go up first and his eyes searching his oaths solemn undercover revolts did Injun drop the palette and was it slurry of stones from the mountain tops pleading hanging papercups and brown birds with tattoos on the brain lying in the bed better than you 

Down the laughter 
black black
the happy breasts of a harlot with the arched hips collecting her heaves
And leaves her golden hairs in my silver
My book closes on your open theatre.

Play me a song, won't you? 

_________________________
Extreme madness, with random precision and steel breeze. 

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Day 1

On those many special days
when wild flowers are burdened with
milk and 
the dad keeps his palm canopying his 
love's restive eyelids, burdened with many 
montages and silent in the light of stagnant airs loud with the 
silent protests blocking her vistas of fuchsia 
sunshine when she tied her hair firmly behind in a nice
sweet tail and trusted her father's care to protect from the 
slightly tormenting white sunshine
that came in relentlessly 
though she sought a refuge 
yet they barged in like waves of
hungry
leeches
that suckered someone down the 
mofussil roads whose dad merely believed
she herself could save
herself.

On those many special days, 

when the commonstreetbegger whose bare chest barely has anything but a
tatteredjacket puts the upperleft button
in the lowerright
buttonhole and thinks he would safely save
himself from the  
whatever causes the funguys to shriek in contorted faces as to the cause of clogged streets
and sparse chills,
you return home early and safe. 


Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Untitled #6

These hours are terribly frustrating. Clogged up. Scenes of perfection stitched with ebullient hopes. Terrible chaos. Zipped lips. Oh, restlessness. What can be this, or that - or, what do you think or understand - or, don't you know or can't you guess - or, this is what is should be or what it is. Not even a phonecall away from disturbance. Or peace. I can't focus. Simply. There is always this train of thought that beams like moonshine. Similar intoxicant. I guess resolution would swim up fast. To be surrounded by known faces. In comfort of similar senses. Reciprocation. A couple in the sea of so-so. Who have a lot to offer. Not scarred by malice, pride or money. Not yet, maybe never. I need to learn. Fast. Time = Essence. They are showing films, and I am missing out. Little conversations. You learn a lot from bickering and teases. Little towns where stories are simple and joys are profound. Many blabbering disgusts condolences. There is a perennial sense to explore. Look out, seek forth, never satisfied. Naive minds. Dostoevsky Saul Bass Morricone. Premen Shakti Prochet. Chocolate Ice cream Roshogolla. Dust Dreams Demons. These That Those.  


Sunday, October 27, 2013

Untitled #5

The sonorous beats of fluctuating temper are crashing on the shores of infinity. Everyone needs a quivering sense of safety. One that actually shakes and makes base infirm. Stagnant waters splashed sideways and dead-centre. Unending avenues of blank blackness and wet nocturnes. And preludes to violent queasy aberrations. 

Could you smell that trippy coldness? Could you see the serenity bathe under the shadows of decaying sun? Could you see the pathos lined red under the folds of musty shirts and ill-fitting brassiere? He could go hugging ancient trees and chance eunuchs. He could ask for a cheap suit and few consoling lies. He could have simply begged for caresses and touches. The crests from pangs of an isolated existence meets the low tides of late rainfalls. 

The trembling yellows and oranges are closer than we think. Just as overlapped the Bageshri rag is in the fifth harmony of Barkha Ritu Aayi so is the sense of happiness and end. Or death. Bade Ghulam Ali Khan is ruthless in his meting out despair. It could be numbness on weak epidermis. It could be the nip in the colorless airs. It could be the charcoal sketch gone haywire. It could be the thin layer of impenetrable soot blocking what the spectacles wanted to see. It could be the vast sea of limitless silence on Red Road, where distant dots illuminate a receding emotion. It could be the the absence of the pressure of having to return back a reply in time. It could be the red of the taxi meter screaming and scurrying in the room of rushing montages. It could be the sensation of not having to care for anyone, care for anything and be equally careless. It could be the ability to intake low lights with brighter spirits and better hues. It could all be the rush, the rush, the cold, racy, unforgiving rush.


_________________________
A tipsy ride from Broadway down a silent darkness.
Gaje Ghata Megh.
Wind on face, ears and hair.

Friday, September 27, 2013

Note To Self And Silences

Restless, rest-less,
Less than Tess
of
d'Uber-metronomia (I don't like her appreciating crass flirtations)
Wait, wait, waaait, way-ate
Eating away 16:9 

Q  23. How many millionth part of picoseconds are there in a day?
(a) 6.023E+23 (b) 9.1E-31 (c) the number of failed attempts (d) waiting queues in iBGP 

Wait Jen, what is it are you trying to avoid me is it some troubles you wish to sip don't you sleep as blankly as the pixels do are should i try 
to learn the network heuristics better in order to know you don't you see that every echo that can be heard without distorting enhancing demystifying disengaging projecting proselytizing  
or paraphrasing permeating denouncing deliberating
the holes soundlessness cre-

-Ate.
they said they would care. i smiled. they said they would laugh. i laughed too. i cared, definitely, but i laughed too. i found that easy and i found that what it should be, easy chicken, easily shared, evening ecstasy, but i never saw. but they saw, everyone is smart, who isn't? haven't you submitted your name? whose name? yours. mine? then whose where? how dare you try and have some fun at the expense of your own foolery and worthlessness and inability to talk and just arrange eroticism on century-long/wide/empty, what's the word, the word, the good word    
Back, forward, down the line
Timelines

To see you smile the way you were beautiful and true where times were old and I was dumb(fool)
Refresh
hashtag Tagged Self Develop 'Comics and Graphic Novels'
commentlikedshared
"The food was very salty today"
Grow up, roam around, find fakefakefakefakefakefakefake faces (big tight) breasts bosom virginity beasts you never wish to soil with your ennui
infinite corridors of
A mother loses her sleep and a son loses his semen - wondering when it would come up next, this moment, this minute, this hour, this day, this night, long night, long long night, before dawn, before light, before breakfast, before work, after work, after thought, afterthoughts, only thoughts, WAIT
useless infor
ma
tion
what am i reading
what am i writing 

what am i listening


... is typing
...

_______________________
"It struck a chord, didn't it? I wonder whether Saajan would have ever met Ila. Even if he ever tried to do that, he would never confront her. Perhaps words would dry. Like the deserting her in the cafe, shying away from making even casual conversations. Because so many mediums, yet seeking refuge in pieces of paper tucked between dry rotis. What more can one converse about. And of course, absence of words is not always silence, and silence is not always the rupture of conversations." 

Friday, September 20, 2013

Our Casual Ways

The fine, and altruistically arduous, judgement one needs to make between what is right and wrong is a path tread casually. Why casually and arduous in the same context, one might ask, getting the possible reply that basic human nature dictates that often it fails to discern what does not seem to it routine, or obvious. Hence casual, because you simply want someone to analyse it for you, the end result should govern and simply funnel out the entirety in a simple black or white monochrome. Because the general sentiment is I need not know the backstage as long as the conclusion corroborates with my stagnant notion, which of course, again, is a black and white monochrome with no base-paint of real shades of truth and discernment. And the arduous alley is perennially empty, because, simply, who is such fool to delve deep.

As always, to every entity, at least two sides exist, if it is not multidimensional, then many more. We have arguments, facts, counter-arguments, debates, dissonance, as true to any democratic setup. But then again the writer is no one to spell out what the truth is. But rather, why the present situation of agitation by students' body over an incident whose implications, everyone solemnly accepts, are simply horrifying, and its unbelievable condemnation by people not directly present or proactively involved, should be seen as an instance of how easily we want something to be true. Magic-realism? Maybe. 


So some rock-solid mentalities and theories : the said student body is always up for some political mileage, will always stand up to propagate culture of resistance and brandish its notorious resistance; the students always up for some mischief, and if caught, will trick even the Devil to waltz out in the easy path; and of course the vital ones - the authority is sacrosanct and media supreme. So the popular avenues of right information and free thinking are choked as long as those do not conform by establishment and set beliefs. The institution has always been breeding ground for nefarious activities, and hence, whatever the backdrop might be this time, the commotion is straightway pronounced wrong; their demands and protests has always been unjustified, hence it is meant to be wrong this time, as well. Why should we look and introspect, what is there to judge, a man of the streets asks. (Or is it just the man on the streets, not the different student community from the same institution, who themselves might be facing a similar situation? Didn't they realize, or were they busy appeasing themselves with what they have been forced to believe?)

Establishment always swallows opinions, or viewpoints which, even in a bit, sway from what is deemed obvious or the perennially recurring notions. An alternative voice to the situation is never given space. Now even if you have something worth fighting for, there is always a resistance of mind which prohibits you from projecting a different perspective, maybe even the true story, because that would clash with the ongoing reality(?) which people put themselves in. Why disturb that equilibrium of nonchalance of regular denizens and unquestionable fairness of authority. I will omit the facts which somewhat erodes popular thinking, I will select a story which people like to listen, I will select an angle which establishment conforms by, I will label your dissent with a political/ ideological slant that garners general distrust/ unacceptability, and finally I would spell out the judgement because you need not concern yourself with facts.

Because truth is for harebrained pussies. 



 

_______________________________
This is just an appeal and, as stated above, is neither the judgement nor the truth. They somewhat lie garbled in appeasement and our lack of digestive juices to absorb what one should see/hear as against what one sees/hears.

Jadavpur University, Sept'13.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Of Chasing The Night

(For those ninety-nine desires and many plans)


There in the streets I roam, in time

Where facts and faces and shadows align
In the pale houses or cornered bliss, 
Two-pice worries and dogs in peace
In peace the breath, night, chrome, I walk 

And I saw you shine
Just you
For me

Then you chased the night
For me
Just you

And now we turn the stares into sleep, of love. 


Below the haze the crows carry my truth 
Busy lanes yawning as they should 
Moist with hope that smile seldom gives 
Or as the boy in the blues gently believes

Picking the stones and staying still  
Is there a street busy with you
Showing signs that aren't quite true
The streets were left cold, as they always feel
The night left me cold, as I always feel


And I saw you shine
Just you
For me

Then you chased the night
From me
Just you

And now we turn the stares into sleep, of love.


________________________
Composed in the tune of, and with the contentment of peace as attained under the influence of, The Cinematic Orchestra's To Build A Home. 


Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Of Low Roofs And A Wider Berth

What do you call it? The steep chances of dilemma. Convulsive creatinin. Hypermetropia, ha ha!

It is better to deal with wide-angle watermarks and closet spaces. It has long been affairs of taking chances and calling it a day. Vaguely, those were blunt disturbances in the face of imminent well-being, thicker wads and thinner esteem. Of convincing others and dying out of self-pity. 'Yes, I, too, am here, though I don't know why I wanted to get here in the first place.'

I like finding myself with an octogenarian dealing with Sishir Bhaduri and his days with Rudraprasad. Of finding the blurred inks on a troubled postcard. Of helping with Calibre and Penguin exchanges. Of knowing people and getting words spread. In finding myself with the erudition of Passive Revolution, neo-liberalisation, Musalman-nama, Sirimavo Bandarnaike's troubles, chicken-fried-rice and mentions of pig's progeny, in the same space. Of counting grayed walls of stagnant souls of Sarat Bose Rd. In tensed faces and anguish semblances. On lighted stage with crass innuendos and brightest perversion. Of passing days and counting time. From a familiar cell number. "Dept."

You need proper ventilation to pour yourself out. You don't need to see the faces. You don't need to recognize names. Some smartphone glows and unnamed camaraderie. It's better to be in the dark, no one cares about your happiness, or why you are smiling in feverish melancholy, or profound detachment.

The glimmering pitch of roads will smile. The rains will shine. The winds will rush.
For this too shall pass.

In peaceful contentment.

__________________________
Turn the page. Unclear lenses. Rain in the city.  

Friday, August 16, 2013

Parts Of The Whole

This present day, this era of post-modernist, post-existentialism philosophies, tremendous cultural and social confluence, the period of staggering technological and scientific thoughts and processes, our lives, our cumulative stories gravitate towards some kind of unification of ideas, the coalescence of streams towards a greater truth. Maybe seeking to answer interdependence, validity of soul, or of life and death. The age-old adage of summation of parts being not as good as the whole itself assumes concrete structure of its own, for the parts can communicate and interconnect with each other to achieve a purpose in the entirety.

Ship Of Theseus serves as a springboard for such discussions, and remains widely ambivalent in its approach as whether it justified its title. A film attempting to seek discourses and conversations on such philosophical grounds, on a matter that at best can barely etch the topic of discussion in feeble strokes even in its 143 minutes of runtime, firstly has to set its agenda clear and loud and then drive home a point. Having stated this, it remains a frighteningly titanic task to attempt, let alone achieve. So bare sermonizing was excepted throughout. It is there, but not the regular fare.

You might ask, who talks like that these days? But then the folly is ours to bear, that we don't want to tread that path at all. If the auteur presents you a facet that is intellectually stimulating we tend to dismiss it for being not cinematic enough. Firstly, cinema, the immersive experience that it is, is not only scenes but definitely words too. Our visual faculty responds well and is far adaptive than the others but there is no harm in emphasizing on spoken dialogues trying to present the notion itself. Secondly, the subject matter deserves a kind of background matter for the audience to chew upon, as the essence is not some common or easily perceivable idea which is often dealt in mainstream/ alternate artforms but a huge body of thought. Some statements and textbook monologues were in order. Thirdly, I feel the director held the reins enough to balance between acknowledging audience's intelligence to appreciate and stating his ideas in barest minimum words. Let not the film make you feel dumb, 'cause if it did then you are probably trusting your Southern rip-offs a tad too much.

It is rich in its scenes and sounds. The crescendo attaining its peak as the blind photographer gains her eyesight which alienates herself from her art, failing to capture a busy cityscape, and ultimately collapsing back to 'dramatic' blindfold, and the hum and buzz silences out peacefully narrates a perfect scene with sounds only. Music by Naren Chandravarkar provides solace in times where introspection is a necessity and drama is just a bystander. Some good humour also finds place in Charbak's quips, the Marwari pretenses of casualness, and even for most of us, the realistic depiction of courtroom proceedings. The erudite, articulate monk Maitreya's (the fantastic Neeraj Kabi) banters with his protege set in the road, where walls have lend themselves being revolutionary graffiti and urban disenchantment, as the duo delves into religious emancipation being an answer to moksha assumes larger context. This scene, among few others spread across the three stories, are lengthy and rich in dialogues, and without music or artificial sounds jutting in. Nature and surroundings gain importance - the panoramic skyscraper-views, or the rain washed earthliness or gigantic rotatory windmills casting shadows, like the cycle of causality, the soundless scheme of Stockholm or the stifling bylanes and deadends of search in closeted slums, marking futility of search and purpose are pieces of brilliance. As Maitreya undergoes physical agony due to failing health, days rotate into nights, his fabric breaks and blackness descends on his skin and calmness, there are two very poignant images of lush green foliage being caressed by sweeping mellow winds, which dance and change forms, shapes to the tune of greater force. One of the images appear on the onset of his disease, the other when the suffering becomes untenable. Two apparently simplistic captures from nature, but presenting an vision that develops the idea like nothing else.

And then there is the soulful Naham Janami. The three different stories, which ultimately achieve convergence, have varying degrees of cinematic quality, mainly writing, with the  second being profound piece of cinema made in modern times, in India. One probably wishes the makers to attain similar graphs with the other two as well, because it might appear the first and the last being prologue and epilogue to the epicenter of the film, even though all are thematically linked and properly constructed.

This is not a discussion about the subject matter of the film - and numerous forums can be formed to dissect the central theme, the paradoxes as presented, the parasitic or symbiotic manifestations of life, the final scene of Plato's cave as the ultimate or beginning of transformation, or even in-your-face issues like animal testing, illegal organ trade or even the futility of materialistic purview as against holistic attitude towards society and greater good. Because, as Anand Gandhi and his team wanted, the film just creates ripples to bring forth a wider wave in these matters of wider significance. Not answer them, not simplify them, but merely to raise them. This is a trip worth taking, on high sails.

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Untitled #4

Blinks and misses, blinks and misses, blinks and misses.
Suddenly fresh echoes were felt on cheeks. They ruptured on the upper lips, upper teeth, upper scales of inner soul. The skin trembled. The cortex shrugged, grew heavier. 

The flying ships took sail. All was violent, all was bright.  
The directions lost their smokescreens and voices lost their thought. Others ran haywire. Blocks run into boxes, squares masqueraded with violence of yellow beams, lights. They receded into the grasps of Diamira and breathed right in the shies of Mirsaza. No matter how much to talk and how much you stutter, the white blinks never paused in prayers. We didn't shook them.
The mass of ghoul danced and laughed, spoke and spoke while ravens rolled down. The throbs silenced the motors and troubled the scantily clad -  
Few walked past with impolite nonchalance. Others were busy abusing their mothers, and thousands before them. Shrill fears were heard. All was bright.
I walked back a few steps with the incoming wave, charges by shapes. The waves crashed. The shapes mastered their ordinariness that comes with incessant possibilities. The lovers nodded in unison. Sickness and see-saw.
She saw.

This too shall pass, into insignificance. 
The incessant urban daylights of modern highwaymen and waylaying enchantresses are paved with rapidity of blazing sanity and the charm to speak in signs and designs. The cosmic Aphrodite, in her swift brushes of kindness, smiled in cheerful abundance while sleep was just a fair kiss way, of the nocturnal rockets that wither into smiles and nothingness.
Dust, and echoes.

Corrigendum : There has been a few violent ones, you know it. But better to keep them as they are. What's with a few follies against a bliss of worth. :-) 

Monday, August 12, 2013

চুপ, একদম

ব্যাপারটা কোন আইভরি-টাওয়ার টেনিদা-নাক হওয়া নয়, বা বুর্জোয়া-বাদানুবাদ, "হই তু উরা, তু আমরা নৈ ক্যান" এর ফোড়নে সাঁতলানো টাইপ, রাদার নুন্যতম শিষ্টতার।

শেষ বসন্তে আমাদের গায়ে বিজগুড়ি বেরলেও তাতে কালচারের ছাপ থাকে, স্বাভাবিক। ছেতরে ভেদবমি হলেও তাতে শৈল্পিক নকশা লক্ষণীয়। শনিবার সন্ধ্যেতে বাথরুমটা পরিষ্কার করার দায় পরলেও ঋতুপর্ণের   ওপর জোর আলোচনা হবে শুনেছি, স্যার রবিন নাথন কে নিয়ে সিনেমা করেছে, প্রচুর গান শুনিয়েছে ঐ ফিলুমে, মানেই জোর কেত।  মালটা তার ওপর শেষদিকে মেয়ে সাজত, মানে যৌনতার গরমগরম চাকুমচুকুম। ভায়েরাভাই কে কল লাগাই, অনেকদিন ঘুরতে যাওয়া হইনি, বউ চিল্লাছে, বাচ্চাগুলো সাউথসিটির এসি খেয়ে ক্লান্ত।

কি বললি? ফ্রি? মানে কিসসু নেবে না?
তাপ্পর চোখের বালি ও বিনি পয়সায় দেখাবে?! বলিসকি!
পাঁচটায় শুরু, ধুত ছটার আগে শুরুই হবে না! ঢুকতে দেবে না মানে?! ফ্রি তে দেকাচছে মানে মাথা কিনে নিয়েছে নাকি?!
তাই শুরু হয়ে যাওয়ার পঞ্চান্ন মিনিট বাদেও ঢুকে সিটের জন্যে হলের স্বেচ্ছাসেবকের সঙ্গে ঝগড়া করব, আলবাত। ওখানে বসব না, বেশি ঠাণ্ডা লাগছে, এখান থেকে স্টেজের বাঁদিকের বুড়োর কান ছাড়া কিছুই তো দেখতে পাচ্ছিনে।
আরে সরুন দাদা, বাচ্চাটা টয়লেট লেগেছে।  ও দাদ্দা, কলছার কত্তে এইছি। ছেলেকে আমাদের ঐতিহ্য্ সেকাতে হবে নাহ? দেক বাব্বা ঐ টাকমাথাটা দারুন কাঁদিয়েছিল, বিসাল সিনেমা করে (ছেলে না মেয়ে জিজ্ঞেস করবিনে, হারগিস)।
শুনছো, দোসর অত্যন্ত ভালো, যাকে বলে, সুন্দর বই। আরও কয়েকটা ভালো বানিয়েছিল, ঠিক মনে পরছেনা। ও অঞ্জনদা, অনেক তো বকলেন, এবার বেলাবোস শোনান না! এই রে, ইংরিজি তে বলে নাকি, বিরবির কিন্তুকিন্তু।
আর আমি ভাই বিসা-আ-আ-আ-ল ব্যস্ত লোক, হু হু, সামলে। তোকে শালা দুনিয়ার রিংটোন শুনিয়েই ছাড়ব -  শ্রীহনুমান, পিটবুল, শ্যামাসংগীত, ডিস্ক হুরুমতাল - গ্যাসবুক হয়েছে, মাকে হলুদ ট্যাবলেটটা খাইয়ে দাও, মাল ডেলিভার হয়ে গেছে স্যার। এই ফাঁকে জোরসে ম্যাসেজ করি তো কতগুলো, ডেলিভারি টোনের ও কি বাহার, আরে আমি ভাই বিসা-আ-আ-আ-ল ব্যস্ত লোক, বিসা-আ-আ-আ-ল।
আবার ও কি, বলে নাকি বাঙালির প্রান্তিক যৌনতা  সম্পর্কে বেসিক আইডিয়াই নাকি নেই? সেক্স আবার জানার বিষয় নাকি! ও তো খালি করতে হয়। তাও যদি বুঝতুম রেগুলার ব্যাপারটা - বাদ দিন, কাটান। ঋতুর ফ্লিম নাকি বুজিনি, ধুত্তোর, রাইমাকে দেখে সোহাগ করিনি নাকি!
এই রে, ওইদিকটা ফাঁকা হয়েছে, ধর ধর জলদি সিট ধর, রুমাল পেতে রাখ, জলদি।

 না, উত্তেজনা থাকা খারাপ বলছি না, সুযোগের ব্যবহার সবসময়েই করা উচিত, ফ্রি'র আরও বেশি। পরিবারের সাথে দল বেঁধে উল্লাস, একশোবার। পরবর্তী প্রজন্মকে আপনি ছাড়া কে শেখাতে পারবে, তুমুল দায় বর্তায়! এলিটিজমএর রোয়াব দেকাছিন্না। কথাটা, আগেই বলেছি, হল শিষ্টাচারের। হলে ঢুকে প্লাস্টিকের মোড়ক ছাড়িয়ে আওয়াজ করে কামড় মারা, ফোন বন্ধ রাখার দায় না নেওয়া, পাবলিক স্পেসে ন্যূনতম সৌজন্যবোধ টুকুও না দেখানোয় প্রচুর কালচার ঝলকায়, বোধহয়, জানিনে। আর, জোরসে সবাইকে নিজের মত জানানো, মেনলি তখনই যখন সাইলেন্সই কাম্য।    
 
হ্যাঁ আপনার মত থাকতেই পারে। যেমন এই যে আমি ক্যালানেও দু ঘণ্টা আগে পর্যন্ত 'এক্সিস্তেনশিয়ালইজম কি? বিবাদি বাগের মোড়ে তা পাওয়া যায় না কি? খাব না চটকাব?' ন্যায় বিবিধ কোশ্চেনমার্ক ঝুলছিল তা গুগলিয়ে অমনি উধাও, একুন সাত্রে নিয়ে চোখা জ্ঞান শানাব, বিষাদসিন্ধু বেসড ছড়া কাটব কাটব - তা সবই হাতের কাছে নিমেষ ইনফো, আর এই (হু)যুগের উদারি-স্মার্টনেস, খুল্লামখুল্লা। তাকে বৈদগ্ধতার সুমহান লক্ষণ বলে ভাবা উচিত নয়। কারণ একটি বিষয় সম্বন্ধে সম্যক ধ্যানধারণা অর্জন করে তা নিয়ে বিতর্কে অবতীর্ণ হওয়ার মধ্যে যে গভীর প্রক্রিয়া আছে, তা ঠিক ল্যাদারুস, এম-সি-ক্যু জ্ঞানগাম্বু, ঐ-হল-এক মানসিকতায় সুট করে না। কারণ প্রক্রিয়াটি চাপের, গম্ভীর ও হিসিচেপে বসার মত অধ্যাবসায়ের প্রয়োজন। কে খাটবে?

তাই আলগোছেই বাতেলা মারি, না হয়। ফ্রি'তে।

_____________
এসআরএফটিআই, হুজুগবাই, ধাঁইধপাধপধাঁই।

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Of Half Glances

She smells of rain, Elven, and speaks of grass
She walks by time, sublime, and smiles innocuous

The never or not, the overshot, the sight of green
Of red or blue, long overdue, blessed unseen.
  

Is the gift of Rome, monochrome, the trust of wood
In starry nights, fireflies, misunderstood

I think of haste, summertaste, or the blood of blind
Well whatever, yeah, whatever, nevermind.

_________________

Footnotes : 
(1) " I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web
       Is fastening my ankle to a stone. "

(2) " রাত্রের আলো তুমি, ভিখিরির তেরপল ... 
       মাতালের ঘুম খেয়ে স্পিড তোলা বাস ...
       বালিশের খোলামাঠে শ্রাবণের লাশ " 
(3) ----------

Thursday, July 25, 2013

অসহায় স্বপ্নদর্শন-বিদ্যাবিষয়ক

আমাদের রেগুলার হাপিত্যেশ আর কুলীন বাদামভাজার মধ্যে যে কটাস করে চৌচিরের প্রথাগত লেনদেন আতাগাছের তোতার মতই প্রাণপ্রাচুর্যে উথালিপাতালি ও নোনাবালির মতই উরিব্বাপ নোনতা, তা তর্কের খাতিরে ব্যায়সাপেক্ষ তো বটেই । তাই এই পরের আসমানি কালো কবতে, যাতে কবি হাতেনাতে ছবি এঁকেছেন, দীর্ঘক্ষণ সময় ধরে নিজেকে খিস্তি করেছেন, এবং শেষ পর্যন্ত বুঝিয়েছেন ব্রেন-ব্যায়াম তাঁর পক্ষে নির্দলের পঞ্চায়েত নির্বাচনে সংখ্যাগরিষ্ঠতা লাভের মত উজ্জ্বল । 

তোরে আমি শাড়ি দিব, খাঁজকাটা বড় কলসি
মায়ের দিব্বি আমি তোরে সত্যিকথা বলসি

ধুত্তোর! এর'মভাবে এগারোনম্বর পঙক্তিটি উড়ে, জুড়ে বসবে, জান্তেম নি । এই জন্যে বাবার প্রসাদ লিগালাইজ করা উচিত, সর্বজনউন্নতিপ্রকল্পস্বার্থে, মানবজাতির এভিএশন চরিতার্থে। অশালীনতার ও তো একখান শরীর থাকে, না কি? তাই পরের পার্ট -

মাখন দিব, দুধ দিব, চাইবি যতেক লঙ্কা 
রাত্রিবেলা সোহাগ দিব ( ধুত্তোর আশঙ্কা!) 

আবার ধুত্তোর কীসের? লঙ্কাই বা কেন, বাঙ্গাল নাকি! শিতলা যয্ঠীতে নিউ পারুল অর্কেস্ট্রা খাসা কোকিলকণ্ঠী "ঝাল লেগেছে (x২) ঝালে মরে যাই  (x২)" নামিয়েছিল । বসন্ত কেবিনে যেই সেদিন মোটা মামলেট খেতে ঢুকছি অমনি মহেন্দ্রকণ্ঠে, "চুতিয়া, করাত গলায় রেখে পরের লাইনগুলো লিখিয়ে নিতে হবে না কি বাছাধন!" অতএব, বিধানসরণী থেকে ২২১ ধরে সোজা তিব্বত । 

আমি যামিনী তুমি শশী হে
কি ঝিলিক দিচ্ছ হে ম৺সিয়ে 

"একটু মাংসটা চেখে দেখবি, রেঁধেছি কষিয়ে!" বালাই ষাট ! পাঁঠাকে যে  অবজ্ঞা করেছে তাকে বর্ষায় আমর্হায্ট স্ট্রীটে চুবিয়ে নরকের কোথায় ফেলতে হবে তা দান্তে-ও লিখে যাননি । তাই সুরুয়া টা সুরুতসে লিপটিয়ে যেই না পর্ণগ্রাফির আঁচিল চুলকাচ্ছি অমনি কুত্তাগুলো ভোররাতের রেওয়াজ " নিঝুম সন্ধ্যায় ক্লান্ত পাখিরা, বুঝিবা পথ ভুলে যায় - ইত্যাদি" গেয়ে মেটিংধ্বনি আউরালো । এখন তো পচা ভাদ্দর নয়, তাহলে ক্যামনে?! 

ভয় পেয়োনা, ভয় পেয়োনা, আমি তোমাকে মারব না
চটুল চমক দিচ্ছে ধমক, বিকিনি পরতে পারব না

ধ্যার, আজকাল দাঁড়িপাল্লার নিচে এত ম্যাগনেট লাগানো থাকে না, কোনকিছুরই মুল্য বোঝা দায় । এক্সেপ্ট দাড়ির প্রাইসভ্যালু, তর্কাতিত কেতাসুলভ ও দেবতাসিদ্ধ । বালিগঞ্জে বাসে "এই তো মানিকতলায়, দাঁড়া, পাঁচমিনিটে ঢুকছি", দাঁড়কাকও বিলুপ্তপ্রায় । তাই এই রাত্রিচৌপ্রহরে খানিকবৎ দাড়ি, থুরি, দারই, ধুশ, ডারি, আবে, দাড়ই, ধুচ্ছাই, দারী ... 

জোরসে ঘুম লেগেছে । আশি । 

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Of A Regular Absentee

Let's keep all our clearcut martyrdom in zipped glycerines and muted trivialities, our inconsistent rainfalls in black syllables and sharp roadblocks, our dying notions in stale headlines and oversized bedrooms, our bland conversations in sharp failures and brighter nothingness -

Why did he do so? 

Why didn't he? 
Wasn't he meant to? 
Did he fall asleep? 
Was he missing his verdigris scarf? 
Didn't his shoe fit him perfect?  
Did he miss the bell, the dog barks? 
Was it the shadow that pestered his frown? 
Did they serve him the severed head of the black stallion in a sliver-rimmed plate? 

The combs gathered. The files seethed. The noise echoed. 

The spring slept. The roads winked. The ships jumped. 
The sweat sailed. The voice burnt. The choice faded. 
The beast shrugged. The imposter flew. The orchids grew. 
The scenes drowned. The idiots got lost. And maybe got found.

And you are shoved into your throat the daily observances of pathetic lunatics, breezy cougars, and cheap suitmakers who travel in the thickets of Alaskan dreariness or clamped-down autocracies of woebegone Communists, or even wake up to howls of famished cats, underdogs or African molluscs when they search for dirigibles painted with Ten Commandments, LedZep ballads and bestial mockeries while fabled gunmen in gold-lined Aviators check for your vital fluids or dilating pupils or dysfunctional cerebellum at the dead of your most violent night.


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Am I the only one? 
Am I the only one? Am I the only one? 
*insert appropriate insignia of fallout burden, stale habits and unrectified ideas*

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Untitled #3

অকস্মাৎ ভুলের মত, বা অনবরত বিপর্যয়
জ্বালা জিনিস, সুনিবিড় আতঙ্কে, অবহেলায় ঘটে চলে কয়েকমাস আগের মতই
তাত্ত্বিক আলগোছে গিলে নিই খর্বকার কৌতূহল, নরকভোগ,
বা দিকবিদিক সাইরেন, ঠোঁটচাটা পরিণাম
ভ্রান্তিলিপি লেখা আছে সর্বনামে ।

অথবা চাওয়া কোন কালে, কোন এক মুর্খামি অভিলাষ
নিছক গৃহস্থের দুছটাক সূর্য বা অপরিচিত মুগ্ধতায়
লাল মাখে সাবলীল, ফিক হাসে চারিপাশ
চুপ থাকে চাহুনি, দূরে দাঁড়ায় অপেক্ষা
বর্ষার ঝঞ্ঝায়, শ্রাবণের চিৎকারে ফিরে ফিরে আসে
( কে যেন বলেছিল) দেবতারা তাকে ভালবাসে ।


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দু'চার কথা এবং third person plural(?)