একলা

Translated by Somnath Chattopadhyay.... from, 'The Incurable Loner'

যদি পারতাম

Translated by Somnath Chattopadhyay...from "If Only I Could"

Flying Saucers!!

Man has always been fascinated and intrigued by life in other planetary systems and galaxies. With his imagination, he has created pictures of aliens, and they have mostly been painted in malevolent shades. Over the ages, man has always visualized the alien to be vicious looking, arriving on planet in flying saucers, with intentions of conquering it. These flying saucers were so called because they resembled upturned saucers. Sightings of flying saucers have been recorded from very early times and almost every civilization has maintained a certain amount of account related to seeing strange glowing objects in the sky. A section of researchers have even tried to
prove that sightings of UFOs go back as early as the Biblical era and that, certain chapters in the Bible endorses this belief of theirs.

The term Flying Saucers was coined in the 1940s and this was later changed to UFO or unidentified flying object. However it has been observed that most of the claimed sightings have been later proved to have been some other objects like the reflection of a weather balloon, or a reflection of certain metallic objects or at times even airplanes. However, the skepticism and the controversies surrounding the UFO s still continues. There are many international bodies like the Center for UFO Studies or the CUFOS, which has a team of dedicated academicians, scientists and investigators , who are relentlessly trying to pursue and unearth the truth behind the UFO phenomena.

Over decades, millions of people have claimed to have seen UFOs and also extra-terrestrial life forms, but their claims have been ridiculed at by the media and has also been rubbished by the governments. This phenomena has still not been substantiated by any scientist and still remains unexplained. A section of the U.S. population is of he firm belief, that the government and the CIA have definite proof of UFO bases in certain strategic areas but owing to certain unknown reasons, have desisted from letting the general population know about this secret.

Another aspect of the UFO phenomena is that people have reported alien abductions. That is many people have claimed to have been abducted by aliens and to have been returned to their points of abductions after a series of experiments. The extent of truth in such claims still remains to be determined, however, strange implants have been found in some people who have claimed to have been abducted. The International Center for Abduction Research or the ICAR, is an international body which is dedicated to the unearthing of information related to the abductions of humans by aliens. This body helps individuals in coping with the variety of crisis that arise from the abductions through processes like hypnosis.

UFOlogy is the term, which has been coined to denote studies dedicated to everything related to the UFOs. UFO s according to some people should be the abbreviation of Unconventional Flying Objects. It is a truth that certain sightings of UFO s are actually sightings of experimental and unconventional aircrafts, still there have been accounted sightings which have remained largely unexplained.

1971, Moon. Apollo 14, In this shot, the shape of the 

object looks like the one of a flying saucer with lights! 

Reference: NASA AS14-70-9836/37.

Author: Jayeeta Sinha Roy

Letting go...

In every parting there is a shadow of death..
Death the ultimate...the abyss of no return..
Nothingness, meaninglessness, abrupt end..

However, human mind is in an eternal quest for the something after..
some meaning, some reason..a bit of logic
but death defies it all
carefully laid out plans...all reasoning...all meaning.

Death, leaves us first in numbness,
we lose the ability to think, to react, to act..
and then comes denial.
Denial of the truth that is staring us in face.
Denial of the fact that end does come without an epilogue.

So...We can't let go
We don't let go..
We do not accept....and...
We keep hoping for the nightmare to end..
and for our beloved to return.

Herein comes the necessity of performing the last rites..
whether it is touching the lips of your beloved with leaping flames,
the face you had held so lovingly in the palms of your hand...
or in...
hearing that ultimate, deafening thud of pebble on the coffin...
that is the mark of accepting...of letting-go.

Letting-go of that integral part of my life,
who was perhaps fighting with me over trivial issues even yesterday.
Letting-go of all hope of him ever returning to me.
Letting go of the delusion that I can have yesterday back...

He has moved on...he had to leave...What is the logic behind holding back a body, when the soul has departed?

Author: Jayeeta Sinha Roy

After-thoughts

Ready or not...the end will surely and suddenly stare at you in the face.
Ready or not..one day that rocking chair will roll back and forth, empty
Ready or not, your babies will fly the nest very soon
Ready or not, maybe sooner than you know..
you will need two outstretched hands to hold you straight...

and that very day, perhaps you will know and realize that your life was actually so blessed with tiny bits of gems that you failed to notice...

you mother's concerned calls,
your child's face burrowed in your bosom, as if you are her world,
your father's eyes waiting eagerly for the time when you will enter that door and share a few minutes of silence with him.
the cacophony of your friends as you try to concentrate on a romantic number
or for that matter, your love's increasing demands on your time, even when you keep rejecting her, to just be with you..

trust me...it will all end much sooner than you ever thought...it will end in one swipe...and you will be left wishing and wishing....only if you could go back and mend things...and regretting each lost moment.

A random thought

Dates repeat themselves, month after month...year after year. It is only when they bear a significant event, a particular memory, re-emerges in one's mind....that dates cease to be a dead entity on a calender page.
Same with relationships, I believe. During our lifetime, we forge so many different types of relationships with so many people. If they are not blood-relations, then most of these relationships disappear without a trace....however some remain permanently, in some form or the other, throughout our lives. These are the ones, that nurtures us, resurrects us...has an uplifting effect on our lives and vice versa. Relationships are like little saplings, at the beginning. They need a lot of watering, sunlight, proper soil and care. However, as it grows into a tree, we fail to recognize, the fact, that the tree still needs water, sunlight and care.

amar aakash

Amar aakash jure chhilo..
megh-bedonar chhaya...khushi-rod er jhilik...
chhilo raamdhonu ronger ohonkar..
brishti-ashwasher sur..
tushar-shitolota otikrom kore
chNader alor mayabi akorshon..

aro chhilo..bistritir bnake bnake..
uttoroner-soor, nirbhorotar roop..
rohoysho bhangar aahobhan..
chhilo chena gondher bhorsha..
achhe purono smritir haatchhani..

amar-aakash ke je aaj o pai..
kintu aakash, aakasher-ami ke hariye felechhe...