eighteen september

স্বপ্নাদেশ

2008-05-13T17:24:00.000+05:30

এক একটা সময় স্বপ্ন মনে হয় য়েন
এক একটা সময় ছুটে যাই গ্রহ নক্ষত্র পেরিয়ে
আর একটা জগতে, এক একটা সময় কিছু মহাজাগতিক রশ্মি
আমার পিছু নেয়,আমি তাদের আলতো করে ছুঁইয়ে দিয়ে ভেসে যাই
অপ্রতিহত একটা ভেসে যাওয়া, আর ডুবে যাওয়া,
ভেসে যাওয়া ঘন কুয়াশা আর শীতের মধ্যে

এক একটা সময় দেখা হয়ে যায়
আমার পরিচিত শিউলি ফুলেদের সাথে
একটা তীব্র অনুভুতি আমাদের ছুঁয়ে যায় আদিগন্ত, শরতই হবে
ণয়তো এরকম পাগলকরা বাতাস কেন ভুলিয়ে দেয় বৈশাখ

আজ রাতে বৃষ্টি হয়েছে ঝরঝর
আজ রাতে আমার টবের গাছগুলি হেসেছে অফুরান
ঠান্ডার চাদর গায়ে দিয়ে দুজনে কথা বলেছে সারারাত
আমি কান পেতে শুনেছি ওদের বলাবলি, চুপিসারে দেখেছি নতুন পাতার উঁকি দেওয়া
আজ রাতে বৃষ্টি হয়েছে ঝিরঝির
আজ রাতে ভিজিয়ে গেছে আমার শত বছরের ভেজা

স্বপ্নই হবে হয়ত, স্বপ্নই মনে হয়
এক একটা সময় স্বপ্নাদেশ পাই আমি আর ভুলে যাই স্থান কাল পাত্র
এক একটা সময় ওই সাদা দাড়ি বুড়ো আমায় ভুলিয়ে দেয় সব
তাড়িয়ে বেড়ায় একটা লেখার তাগিদে
এক একটা সময় ঘুম ভেঙ্গে উঠে দেখি কেউ কোথাও নেই,
হতভম্ব আমি লিখে একা যাই

তুচ্ছ কিছু সুখ দুঃখ, বৃষ্টি, নতুন পাতারা আর শিউলি
ঠিক করি লিখব না আজ, তাঁর জন্য সব তোলা থাক
ঘুম ভেঙ্গে উঠে আমি জানি প্রতীক্ষিত বাতাস
ঘুম ভেঙ্গে উঠে আজ পঁচিশে বৈশাখ…

Get Set Go

2007-04-25T22:09:00.000+05:30

recently i got a 'lonely planet' book... i remember the days when i used to stand inside the Landmark (book store at Forum Mall) for hours and hours and turning out the pages of lonely planet books and going inside the deepest of those descriptions... i used to feel being in those places... i could see a whole new unseen world in front of me.... i used to travel across the globe though lonely planet...

... whenever i travel i used to look at those foreigner travelers with a lonely planet book in their hand searching for something interesting... i call them 'lonely planeter' ...

now i got a lonely planet of my own... recently i won the second prize in an online photo competition organized by lonely planet... i got a book on my own country India from lonely planet... thanks to Mark who arranges this competition...
... now i have the book, the planner, the guide ... everything is set... everything is ready... it is now time to hit the road again... and 'therefore i travel' ...

another day

2007-04-15T09:18:00.000+05:30

may be just another day... may be a day with no importance for the non-bengali's... but for me, it is a day of remembrance... a day to become little nostalgic... while staying out of home for more than a decade, a bengali new year's day is no longer be a day of celebration for me, rather, i celebrate it by remembering the past... it is a day when i can go down to memory lane and wonder about my childhood days ... i still can see a small boy, waking up early in the morning, taking bath and wearing a new dress, going to his uncle's shop to celebrate Ganesh Puja... and in the evening the same boy, getting dressed with a new cloth and little more talcum powder on his shoulder, holding his father's hand, walking down to the grocery and other shops to celebrate a haalkhaataa... rasogulla was one of his favorite amongst the sweets offered in haalkhaataa... it is a day of celebrating bengali new year's day... no , it is not just another day for me, it is not just another day for the bengalis...

rain

2007-04-12T20:20:00.000+05:30

yes, it is raining at last... and this is the first rain in Bangalore this year... the mercury was going high and high day by day... load shedding was competing with the summer... so hot and no power, made perfect blending ... it just became intolerable for all of us... i'm here in bangalore for last three summers... i'm seeing an increasing trend of global warming every year... it was said that the best thing about bangalore is its weather... for last few years, the weather had changed drastically... it is no longer a paradise for the weather lovers... when everybody were fade up by heat waves day after day, suddenly rain came in its way... it made everything cool for the time being, for the time being we were feeling relaxed ... uff, what a relief...

arindam

2007-03-28T21:20:00.000+05:30

what do you see here in this photograph ???...i can see a photographer looking at his LCD on a very busy road... he is just like that ... when he is in the field, he will be so much engaged in his work that you can see his concentration like that ... i have the opportunity to see him closely... started photography lately and growing up like anything.. new concept of art, photography and thinking .. all are blended into a single frame.. and thats how he captures the moment... i enjoy discussing about photography with him any moment and any day ... he is so talented and yet reserved...
... ok , 'nuf said...he is arindam, arindam thokder... now do a google on him...

coffee house

2007-03-23T13:50:00.000+05:30

coffee house is one of my favorite place ... when i was in kolkata i went to 'indian coffee house' at college street for several times... not on a daily basis but i would prefer to sit there for sometime while roaming around those book stores... fusion coffee is something special at 'indian coffee house' at college street... different kind of coffee with no sugar no milk added... indian coffee house is an integral part of bengal intellectuality...
... but here i am at bangalore coffee house on m g road... i must say though i won't get the feel of kolkata coffee house here , but at least some kind of similarity... with the increasing rate of growing 'barista' and 'cafe coffee day' in the city , coffee house tends to loose the game ... but for me i still would love the atmosphere in coffee house ... no matter what modern amenities 'barista' or 'cafe coffee day' gives me...

claude

2007-03-22T13:18:00.000+05:30

it was just like another winter afternoon ... no work at office... casually i was browsing through a photography site called pbase, and suddenly i got stuck infront a photograph... i was moved by the composition of that photograph... nothing complicated, but simple... one lady in pink saree was stepping down from konark temple... i wrote a comment on that photograph... and guess what, i got a reply from the photographer... his name is Claude Renault...a middle-aged french photographer in love with India...

... it was a story 2.5 years back ... i am lucky to be close with him... i learned a lot from him about photography...tips and techniques... and everything... my photographic journey started by his inspiration... i have seen him closely... i have seen his passion for India, his love for the people of India...

besides a great photographer, he is a great human being too...it is nice to have him within us...

intense

2007-03-21T06:27:00.000+05:30

this is what i would like call as 'intense look'...
... nandi hills is famous for a typical day out amongst bangaloreans... just 50km off the road... bhogi nandiswara temple is one of the stop on the way to nandi hills...
one certain morning while roaming inside temple i found this man... he was so kind to me and did not mind to be photographed... i always like to find such gems in my memoirs...

aditya

2007-03-20T11:24:00.000+05:30

aditya came to office at 5:55 AM in the morning yesterday ...as soon as he came, he started insisting me to go out for a shoot ! ... so early in the morning !! and going out from the office !!!... i was little confused... he told me , there was a solar eclipse early in the morning... he quickly browsed through internet, found the time of the sunrise ( he is a internet geek too !)and took his helmet to go out immediately... i was a silent follower...

i don't carry my camera always...but i had my compact camera with me that time... we headed towards an unfinished building to see the sunrise... it was a very different sight to be seen with the slice of sun rising... he got some good photographs... he was happy ... i felt good...

insomnia

2007-03-19T13:08:00.000+05:30

i will have some guests next week in my home... they are all coming from my home town... a place 2500 km far away from bangalore...a long long journey for 48 hours by train... bangalore- guawahati express...this train runs through westbengal from assam and then takes the east coastal road through out orissa, andrapradesh,tamilnadu and finally reaches Bangalore...last december i went home and traveled by train...while traveling by train i always prefer to travel by sleeper class...but when you go for such a long journey and need to stay for 48 hours in the compartment,a/c compartment will give you a little comfort for your journey... but there is always a disappointment...in this a/c compartment, you can't see much of outside landscapes but the faces of your other co-passengers...

... i remember, it was a truly boring journey for me, last time i traveled... i took some photographs that time... the one i uploaded here is from that journey...the person in the foreground had not slept previous night...he was traveling to assam... he learned that there were some kind of riots in assam by ULFA... some of the bihari people were already evacuated from the land of assam... he was quite worried about it...i saw him talking over his mobile phone every hour...

...on the other hand this little boy was so spontaneous, always doing something very important !!! his mother was tired atlast...

those were the 40 hours of my insomnia...

dream

2007-03-18T12:49:00.000+05:30

ok, how big do you dream !!! i read somewhere in the internet world, that somebody suggested - "dream in color and then you can convert into black and white"... how funny ... somebody asks which color do u dream... does it really matter which color one dreams in...? it does not matter for me... for me the content is the most important... i don't mind whether it is in color or in grey scale... my interest is on the dimension of my dream...or rather how big could i dream... unless i dream big , i can't think big, i can't wish big... can i ???

bazaar

2007-03-18T00:33:00.000+05:30

who will allow me to sit in home all the day... all my personal works will be held up otherwise... i am thinking i should go to commercial street for some shopping ... i planned last week but due to some unavoidable situation i could not go there... i have to keep sometime for that today... i may carry my compact camera with me... who know if there is an opportunity...

lazy me

2007-03-17T14:38:00.000+05:30

friday afternoon is the happiest moment for me... no work for next two days .. i can just lay back in home and relax... i can watch movies... i can read my favourite books and above all i can sleep and sleep ans sleep ... what is your favourite pass time ? ...

monologue

2007-03-17T13:07:00.001+05:30

welcome to eighteen september... it is intended to express something not related to photography at all... just like a diary ... just like a conversation i do with myself... just like a monologue...