Straight from the Heart

(continued from previous post dated 19th July)
Increasingly Bengali, our mother tongue, became the medium
of expression. Perhaps it was sign of the growing bond or
maybe it was the way the heart speaks to reveal without
ambiguity the attachment of the creator and the creation!


lea - Theek hoyeche ! ekdom theek hoyeche ! Ma ke bolchilam
je amaar ek bondhuke police -e dhorechilo, ma bollo, ke bolechilo
eto jore chalate ! khoob boktaam jodi aapnake shamne petam.
oof ur english at times becomes so difficult to understand.......
not exactly ur english, its what u try to convey. now tell me
those lines are written by whom "aponmoner madhuri...)
(sorry if its a stupid question.........), and then tell me what be-
numbs you and what is ur creation ? i didnt understand a thing
of all that u wrote, so i demand that u explain !!! and this time,
not so cryptically...:-))
arre shotti bolchi, tomar (ishshsh abaar shei bhul, thaak ebar
aar shonshodhon korlam na - i can see someone grinning!) mail
pode, amaar -o thik tai mone hoy. i dont have any friends
currently with whom i can discuss our literature, all the grt
bengali poems, novels, our songs (adhunik, robindroshongeet)
.....hemonto, manna, kishore, sandhya.......offf, i had also been
missing something. my father is the only other person with
whom i enjoy all this.
aami bonedi badi-r meye noi go.....aami ekebaare benebadi-r
meye. we r originally from chinsurah (chuchro), amaader badi
ache okhane, though i have been brought up in calcutta. u wont
believe, kodin thekei khoob ichche hochche ghoti hata blouse
pore, ekta lal pede sharee (in typical bengali style), bodo ekta
khopa, lal teep, onek goyna pore ghore bedate...........infact i
was telling my fiance yesterday. Aar ishshsh, punjabi -ra abaar
romantic kobe theke holo ? romance tomance oder dara hobe na,
ota amaader bangali-der patent :-)) bhebe dekho to........
tahole"tui"-ta baad dilam. Achcha tumi gaan gao na ? chobi aakte
paro, ba kono instrument bajate paren ?



kband - Ku jhik jhik...eibaar ekdom time-e choley elaam.
Tumney pukara aur.....eto keno amakey kolkatay dakadaki
koro boloto M ? Abaar shongey niye picture dekhar, market
jabaar shokh (fully armed with some kind of sursuri debaar
patent!)....boli byapar ta ki??? Jokhon hoot korey choley asbo
na, tokhon dekhbey aar rokkha nei, shob usool korey chcharbo
(paonar khatata bhorey utheche) including the 100/- which
you are so glad that I got relieved of!What's so cryptic about
the product of my imagination, Madhuri ? Naki shob ghorar
mookh thekey shuntey chao - you breathe life into Tagore's
gaaner koli....and prance around in front of my moner jaanla...
which suddenly metamorphoses into a obosh kora feeling deep
within.......see I explained to you in shuddho bangla :-))
Come on M, romoni-der bojha aro onek beshi kothin, you know
that! Bonedi badi thekey bene badi....hmmm rochona ta ektu
gooblet holo botey, tobey Chunchro-r meye to, tai choley jabey:-)
We are from Rishra, my jethu stays there (thamma passed away
couple of years back), I love the Gonga-r ghat there, as a kid I
was too sacred to take a dip....but sitting on its banks on a
moonlit night and hearing the splashing waters is such a soothing
experience, boley bojhano jayena.
I know you sleep fully dressed, completely covered, etc. etc.
somehow a dishevelled image came into the mind...poda mon:-)



lea - Theek ache jao, aar ek dom tanatani korbona........aar
kokkhono daakbo na tomai, maane aapnake, amaar boyei
geche. jodi ashen-o kolkataye, amaake ek dom janaben na, aar
aami jaante parleo, ek dom dekha korbo na...........ke jaane ki
baaje motlob aapnar. :-(( aar kichchu likhbo na, khoob raag
korechi ! eke to eto shedhe shedhe daako tar opor abaar........
jao ! shobbujhi, onek to shokhi ache, shobai bujhi kaache daake,
tai aar kolkataye ashar shomoy nei !!!
baba re baba, amake eto keno je, ki aar bolbo, nijeke kokhono
ebhabe to dekhini ba bhabini.....dekho ek din thoke jeo na jeno.
my mausi lives in rishra, went there abt 2 weeks back, just
before i met you :-)) i didnt know it had a gonga-r ghat, we
used to go to the one in chunchro....o wonderful feeling, but
then its been so many years. shotti, moonlit night and gongar
ghat, aar robindronath (kobita, gaan, novel konta baad di) ooof,
ki romantic bolun to ? shei jonnei to bolchilam, romance maane
bengalis, we have beaten everyone to the pit! oh, that reminds
me, my friend who once went to France told me you should
never go there without ur GF or else u start staring at others'
GFs, and u feel all the more horrible coz they r always liplocked
wherever found with their BFs (hahahaha). since then i have
always had a desire to go to France. well, i have witnessed
similar things in the US.........but somehow they dont come
anywhere near the romance i was referring to.
a month back we had been to puri (tan hasnt gone yet), and in
the evenings, my father and I used to sing all our favourite
bengali songs sitting on the beach, recite all our favourite poems
and talk abt our favourite movies and dialogues, my father is an
excellent singer u know, of course nowadays gola othena, tokhon
i chip in! And whats that dishevelled image, hmm ? thaak baba
jene kaaj nei...........bhalo kore ghumou, aar shopno dekho, maane
dekhben! choli..........M



kband - Eto raag noi go, ejey...I know what it is Rags, sorry
Mads. It is nothing but a morbid fear of having to face the
same fate as I have done unto several other innocent hasinas
like you ! Otherwise, since that day why do you keep your
bedroom window securely shut every night ? Let me give you
some vital info then - I'm coming to Calcutta shortly and
intend to go to AC Market for Golgappas, College St for coffee,
Elgin Road for momos, Shiraz for Biryani, Bedouin for roll......
why are your eyes becoming chchanabora now ? I know you'll
run to your Baba now and complain - Dekho na ki rokom
osobbho lok, amaake kothao niye jaye na, kichchu khaowaye na...
and your baba lovingly will pat you and say - Mamoni, aar to
tumi shei chhotto khuku nou, onek boro hoyechcho, ebar nijer
raag nijey shamlatey sekho......ha ha ha. And you know who'll
be my constant companion in this sojourn - come closer, let me
whisper....that's better now I can feel your earlobes...............
she's the one and only, enchanting, lovely, Ms Tanhai....mein
aur meri tanhai......


(to be continued)