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Aniruddha Sen Towards Infinity 47
Barnali Saha Decipher 49
Kausik Datta Closure 56
Nabarun Moitra A Day to Celebrate 65
Pamela Sinha Trauma 58
Prabir Ghose Me and my Durga Puja over Two Centuries 73
Ritam Mukherjee Post-Tagore Bengali Poetry: Image of ‘God’ and Secularism 74
Salman Zafar Waste-to-Energy as a Tool for Sustainable Development 80
Sangita Kalarickal Autumns and Eulogies 84
Saptarshi Basu The Dream Seller 86
Subhobroto Majumdar Spiti Valley Adventure 87
Susanta Biswas The Motherly Touch in Protection of Forest 93
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Barnali Saha Home Sweet Home 117
Ode to the Twilight
Deepa Vanjani Bouquet of Poems 119
Gargi Mandal-Mukherjee Timeless 121
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Saptarshi Basu A Special World for You and Me 122
Love 122
Raining on the Stone 123
Shreyasi Bose Sound of Silence 124
A Bubble in My Heart
Sudakshina Mukherjee Accepting The Crossroads 125
Sugata Sanyal Small Old Toys 126
Photography
Abhik Das Kumortuli Vignettes 127
Abhiruk Lahiri Kumortuli Vignettes 129
Aloke Bhanja Counseling 133
Indrajit Saha Pujo 134
Kalyan Banerjee The Beach 137
Nandini Banerjee Pujo 139
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Born in Kolkata, Amit Shankar Saha is a PhD researcher in English
Literature at Calcutta University. His interests lie in academic
research as well as creative writing. He has contributed his stories,
poems, and essays to several e-journals like Muse India,
Cerebration, DesiLit Magazine, Boloji, Pens On Fire, Palki, etc. He is
also a blogger.

Dr. Aniruddha Sen, an Electrical Engineer from Jadavpur

University, is currently a Senior Scientific Officer at the Tata
Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. He has
authored several international papers in speech science. Writing in
Bengali and English is his serious hobby and he is associated with
various Bengali organizations and periodicals in Mumbai. His story
‘A Win-win Game’ was highly commended in the Commonwealth
Broadcasting Association (CBA) Short Story Competition, 2007.

Barnali Saha (née Banerjee) is a creative writer currently living in

Nashville, TN. Her writings have been featured in The Statesman,
The Indian Express, and DNA-ME. She has also written for some
leading American E-zines like Pens on Fire and Many Midnights.
She recently published her first book, Figments of Imagination.
Apart from creative writing, her hobbies include painting and
photography.

Kausik of Baltimore in Maryland is an immunology researcher by

profession. Although unwilling (and afraid) to quit his day job,
Kausik privately admits (if you ask nicely) to his strange affliction –
being occasionally struck by story plots or verses that persist
stubbornly in his head until he jots them down on paper. That way
it is much easier to throw them into the dustbin, but every once in
a while, one of them manages to escape and find its way to some
hallowed portal such as Palki. Left to himself, Kausik would rather
be a couch potato in front of the telly.

 
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A resident of Lumding in the Nagaon District of Assam, Dr. Nabarun
Moitra is a medical practitioner, engaged in private practice in the
semi-urban, railway township of Lumding. He likes to write in his
spare time, and his musings are often reflective of the fact that
Lumding has its fair share of idiocies and idiosyncrasies, much like
every other secluded pocket of people engaged in more or less
similar professions. Dr. Moitra’s writings focus on those traits
which make living in Lumding a unique experience.

Pamela is a software engineer working with Wipro Technologies

and settled in Mumbai. A native of Calcutta, she is an avid reader
and enjoys penning poems and short stories as a hobby. She is
looking to hone her writing skills and hopes to publish her writings
someday.

Prabir Ghose is a reputed blogger who found mention in the Limca

Book of Records 2007; his blog is ‘Rediscovering India’ at
Indiatimes Blogs. He is a Citizen Journalist of Merinews, New
Delhi; writes in Bengali under the penname of Kali Kinkar
Karmakar; published a Bengali quarterly magazine Naba Nalanda
from Nashik; and participated in Kolkata Book Fairs in 1992, 1993
and 1995.

Ritam Mukhopadhyay is a young UGC Junior Research Fellow

working towards a PhD in the Department of Bengali of the
University of Calcutta. Ritam writes poems and essays, and he has
published in various well-known little magazines in Kolkata
including Krittibás, Mahádiganta, Jijñásá, Parichay, Kabitírtha,
bhasánagar among others, as well as in a few e-magazines, such
as Charcha, Vinnobasar and Palki.

 
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Educated in Chemical Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University,
Salman Zafar is a Renewable Energy Advisor with expertise in
biomass energy, waste-to-energy processes, solid waste
management and sustainable energy systems. Apart from
managing his advisory firm BioEnergy Consult, he has been
actively collaborating on sustainable development around the
world. He writes actively in journals, magazines, newsletters,
websites and blogs on renewable energy and waste management.

Sangita Kalarickal is from Mumbai, India. She is a physicist, based

in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. In her free time, she also
enjoys reading, writing, pottery, making jewelry and volunteering.

Having worked at Infosys in the past, Saptarshi Basu is now an IT

consultant in TCS. Growing up in the literary atmosphere of
Kolkata, his passion for writing started since the school days. Now
he regularly contributes his prose and poems to various
magazines, while working intently towards his dream novel
depicting the faceless life of an IT programmer.

Subhobroto is a geologist by profession but has a passion of

writing stories, especially with a line of subtle humor in them.
Inspired by the works of Jerome K Jerome, Joseph Heller, and
Ruskin Bond, he tries to write in the same vein. Conceived, born
and brought up in Durgapur, he presently lives in Dehradun and
dreams of seeing his works in the print media like those of his
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Multifaceted Susanta Biswas is at once a documentary Filmmaker,
corporate writer, translator and Editor of the webzine, Charcha. A
graduate in English Literature and post Graduate in Public Relations,
Susanta was a newscaster with the Doordarshan Kendra Kolkata,
and presently works with the multi-collaborative Regional Centre of
the National Afforestation and Eco-Development Board. The article
herein reflects a documentary directed by Susanta, titled ‘tribal
women, afforestation and sustainability’, which has been submitted
to the 15th Kolkata Film Festival and accepted for telecast in the
national television network.
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Dr Deepa Vanjani is an Professor of English, working with PMB
Gujarati Science College at Indore. Interested in English, and
literature in particular, she also freelances for Hindustan Times
apart from translating and script writing at times.

Gargi Mandal-Mukherjee is currently a resident of Somerville, New

Jersey, USA. Hailing from Kolkata, India, Gargi, a young poetess
and blogger, whiles away her leisure by arresting the mesmerizing
moments of life in words and photographs.

Shreyasi, a 2nd year student of Shri Shikshayatan College in Kolkata,

delving into the intricacies of Communicative English and obsessing
over English grammar, was recently elected editor of her
department’s journal. Shreyasi also freelances as a content writer
and teaches English on the sly to unsuspecting kids taken in by her
innocent countenance. She likes reading, writing poems, updating
her blogs, participating at internet fora, making junk jewelry, and
collecting pens – possibly in preparation for realizing her dream of
becoming a novelist some day.

Born and raised in west London, Sudakshina moved to Kolkata for

further schooling. Following her Secondary examination and
thereafter, the Indian School Certificate examination in
Humanities, she pursued a BA Honors degree in New Media
Journalism with Film & TV in London. Sudakshina is currently a
visiting lecturer at various educational institutions in London,
United Kingdom. In her spare time she writes for various
publications and manages her website, journalismwithsudakshina.

 
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Dr. Sugata Sanyal, a professor at the School of Technology and
Computer Sciences at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
in Mumbai, India, joined the Computer Group there in 1973 after
completing his Engineering studies from Jadavpur University, and
thereafter, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. While
working at the Tata Institute, he earned a doctorate. An acclaimed
Information Technology expert, he likes dabbling in innovation,
and likes more to think about new things. His wife and he have a
son and two grand-children.

 
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borrowing her father's camera, then a Sony digital camera, and at
last a Nikon D60. She writes on Bengali food at her blog. Sudeshna
is doing her masters in Biotech at Kolkata and likes clicking and
writing about whatever she cooks.

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to draw from his mother, and takes great interest in doing pencil
sketches, watercolors and poster-colors, his favorite subjects being
figures and scenery. His talents have been aptly nurtured in his
entire household of amateur artists, and he has won several prizes
at school and at the Nehru Children's Museum competitions.
Currently pursuing his MBA studies in Bangalore, he also loves
theater and debating.

Prabal Deb is from the beautiful village of Iswarpur in West Bengal,

India. He is currently an IT professional in Accenture at Chennai,
India. He likes human oriented art, art of feminism and women’s
nature, and origami.

 
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Homemaker from Baroda, Supti Bhanja, was born and brought up
in Bolpur, soaked in the arts and culture of Shantiniketan. She
picked up various forms of arts and crafts, first from her mother,
then at school and elsewhere, including watercoloring, oil painting,
line drawing, Batik prints, tie-and-dye, designs and so forth. Her
interests have also included recitation, theater, singing and sitar
playing, interior designing, anchoring, glass painting among other
things. When not engaged in pursuing her mulitude of interests,
she loves collecting statuettes of Ganesh, adding to her current
collection of 400 odd pieces of various shapes and materials.
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the habit of cooking, and gradually it turned to be her passion. She
is the author of a very popular Bengali blog. She loves to write
about the food she cooks at home, its history, the influence of
culture on that particular recipe, and she loves food photography.

 
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