I am an information scientist and work in the Government sector in India. I write poetry in Bengali and English. I publish a non commercial Bengali poetry little magazine from New Delhi
When our mother's sister came to town
we were so happy that our mother's sister
would be close by at hand.
Having grown in this distant place
...
When you are around me
I know you never forget your first kiss.
You try to gauge from time to time
at occasions opportune
...
Taslima, you are going beyond.
I admired you, one so bold.
The talk about male dominated society made me linient.
I was never happy with those who guarded religion
...
For such a long time I was running a temperature.
Just a little.
It was not exactly a malaise,
not an infection of some sort,
...
I was brought up in pure faith
like the truth of the pole star.
So innocent, I doubted nobody.
I didn't know whatever I was taught
...