ANUDIPTA...AGAIN...2

Hi, Friends,

This time I am back with some more photographs of me...

You know, in my opinion, we love our own face and our own photographs much more than anything else in this universe....isn't it?

Atleast, for me, this frank and straight-forward statement is 100% true...nothing exaggerated in it...

Lot of Introduction already...

Let us go straight to the photographs...

Well, I know that I am not posing with a very smiling face in these photographs....

but tell me guys, is this always mandatory to smile before the lens...

specially when your are dying for sleep after a full day's activities?????

I promise to greet you with some smiling face next time...

Till then...Have A Nice Time Folks!!!

Father

In my days of early youth

You always guided me to some place

Undiscovered,

That is yet to explore.

You always offered your hand

And took me through the territories…

Sometimes, tired, sitting by the side of road,

I was taught the basics of dos and don’ts.

You were there for me always…

And never left me alone,

Till I could rely on my own feet,

Before I have a life of my own….

Whenever I out-stretched my hand

Yours I found, supporting my side.

‘Tis a long time since I can not

Feel that Midas touch.

‘Tis long past now,

That I extended to explore the unknown and uncertain.

Look, my hand remains all empty…

All cold…

No one grabs it now…neither in pains,

Nor in pleasure.

Can you travel back Father,

For me,

For once,

And take me with you

To your place, I never know?

Where placing my head on your lap

Under that “green-wood tree” you taught me

I shall have a sleep…undisturbed,

Unending….

And then, if I arise out of slumber,

Should you hold my hand once again?

That together we shall explore the place

Like before, like infancy….

Auction

    Financially Fragile Parents Decide To Sale 

Their Incoming Baby 

For Three Lakhs 

Atleast.

News Report, Ananda Bazar Patrika, dtd. 9^th July’2011

The first word I’m supposed to utter

With a sense and meaning underlying

In this vast universe of uncertain menaces

Is you…Mother.

‘Tis you, on whom, I’m supposed to transfer

The unconditional faith of my infant heart.

Mother, I know none, but you…

None yet I recognize, but you…

Yet the thread is to be separated,

That remain uncut, undamaged yet

And stream the necessities between you and me.

Mother, I’m yet to inhale the first air of my own

And cry out loud.

Mother, I’m yet to see you,

Your face…

Your touch…

And all the affection is still to be felt.

Mother, it’s you who brought me to this world

Of colours and smell,

And it’s you who sales me out to the highest bidder.

See, there they come, and there they gather

A gang of bidders with pockets full of money,

To bid for a baby, yet to be born.

They come and gather round your womb,

The place I considered the safest,

They touch and feel the inside me…

And decide how much to spare.

I can clearly hear the sound of hammer strokes

Emphasizing my fate,

Listen, there it bangs…

One…Two…and Three…!!!

Congratulations, Mother!

Well, all is over for me now,

I am sold to the devil bidding most…!!

Holding A Hand

To A Friend, Very Precious, and Rare...

Her beautiful dark eyes looked even darker, as she lifted her face and allowed mine to contact.

Her face all gloomy…as if a terrible inner commotion is tearing her apart…

Softly she uttered my name….it hardly seemed more than whispering into my ears…

And then, she grabbed my arms…as strong as she can.

I sat beside her, on the naked floor of the little room, a bit secluded from the rest of the house, may be perfectly positioned to disclose off some painful secrets to a compassionate heart!

Again she spoke my name in whispers…this time her voice started to tremble…I realized the mellowed condition of her psychic structure…and felt soon the things should become more intense!

I enfolded her shivering body, that it furiously trying to put an emergency brake to its overwhelmed passion and emotional outburst…

But without much help…

She cried out bitterly….

I drew her closer to my heart and let her cry for a little…

She enfolded me, and this time, rubbing her face against my bosom, she cried out loud.

I didn’t say anything…though it was certainly the saddest visual of my life…

My friend, the most precious friend I ever could have, is all in tears…definitely something serious is troubling her…but I cannot offer anything to sooth her…neither do I know what is bothering her….

I felt so helpless…

So helpless I found myself in…

I offered a few occasions to figure out her pain points…she didn’t say anything, only went on weeping…

She was very close to me…very very close…I finally lifted her face…wiped out the traces of tears….and said: “look here I hold my hand towards you”.

She offered me a faint smile, that actually looked more like an artificial and hard-managed smile, but then, somehow managed to control her emotional down pour.

Some silent minutes began to count themselves into hours…we sat together…her head rested on my shoulder…my hands enfolding her…none of us tried to break the deep silence prevailed in that small room.

Then she stood up…looked straight into my eyes…smiled, this time it displayed much better than the earlier one, and said…“Thanks for being with me”…

I remained speechless….only in my mind I said….

“That is why friends are for ”…

I can spend the rest of my life wiping the tears from your face without a word…

The reason is simple…You called me A Friend, and I know that You should have done the same thing if I were in a mood like You….

After all, “Friendship is one soul, dwelling in two bodies”…..

I believe that.....and so does she.

A Flower Set....

Please check closely....

Then remark freely...

It would be very unjust not to say a few words 

about this Photograph....

Well, I never was a serious or professional photo-shooter like many of my enthusiastic shutter-bug friends....

I always considered myself to be a casual clicker!

This image was taken with my 

3.2 MP A/F Nokia 5800 Xpress Music Cell Phone Camera, 

with a few Auto Settings slightly modified, 

i.e. changing the White Balance to Cloudy, 

and turning off the Flash.

While taking the shot I never had imagine that 

it would turn out like this! 

But somehow, may be sheer luck,
that it  produced a very soothing colour and contrast...!

I request all my photographer friends 

to critically analyze this Picture...

Remark freely,

And thus, help me to improve.