Mellow...
If you happen to be anywhere in Kolkata now, I would urge you to take a moment… before the gaudy festivities of Diwali take over, before we start welcoming a frayed, watered down winter (purely out of sentimental reasons), take a moment and breathe it all in … the delicious melancholy of “postpujaness”…
Look around, observe a city overwhelmed with a bittersweet hangover— the skeleton of pandals looming comically large over ever para more, the weary, dark-circled eyes of its denizens, the solemn dismantlers who guiltily go about their work of normalizing the façade of the city and the heaps of crumpled silver foils in street corners which bear mute testiomomy to the city's ravenous appetite…
I am ill-equipped in the philosophies of life, but I can tell you one thing, feeling mellow does you a lot of good…
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Posted by serendipiduous at 2:29 PM
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I have begun to sound repetitive commenting on each of your posts...
Really, but what to I say. The comment which might follow is a mere attempt to sound fresh...
You do know the art of precisely describing Kolkata in all its emotions and I love you for that. May be your posts is one of the reasons, I love Kolkata more and more every passing day.
Miss the smell of scrap and waste all around the city and its people limping back into normalcy !
Wish i was there...
It did seem to me (from my limited perspective) life in Calcutta revolves around the Pujas - and each year as Shubhro Sharat sets in, bringing tidings of joy, the sounds of Dhak and the smells of Dhuno - the city comes to life in all its exuberance.
Your post does provide a different perspective - of a city heaving a sigh of relief, as its citizens return to the mundane, relieving it from the burdens that festive tidings bring along.
heyy!!! i thought u'd write something on the 15th of this month too since u been writing on a monthly basis past sometime.. its 19th today and i am still waiting... :)
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