Saturday, July 6, 2019

Article - Women Empowerment - Miles to Go published in The Shillong Times





Saturday, June 1, 2019

TIME...


Time…

Enclosed within the corridors of timeManagers rule over a world of desktopsAs office workers snuggle with their strategic coffee mugs;
Away from these power centresBathed in solitude, stories of wandering travellers and fakirs
Define life with elegance.. Far beyond usTime floats,
Life rolls on as the evening
Matures in quietude – restless, yet pristine!


                            RAJDEEP PATHAK
                                                                                   

Saturday, May 18, 2019

My New Poem INTRUDERS


Intruders

Screams of innocence hung in the night air
For silence of sudden death pours forth bleeding soul
Upon the sleeping multitudes who rise in fear and pain!

Red skies cloud the fragrance of jasmines,
As scores of wailing mothers and wives
Mourn the young and old whose
Blood stains now get removed by water cannons
From stained brick walls and muddy streets!

Echoing sirens of fire tankers fulfill their rituals;
Whilst water splashes the thumping chests of
Few thousand voices that still bemoan the last hours’ loss!

Many in the alleys arrange for coffins and flowers;
Assembling pieces of memories and drawing sketches
Of bundles of moments, lost to a single bullet!

Candles and marchers capture the images once again
On a night vigil, as machines defy lost tranquility.

Like a work of several seasons, this cobweb of lies and loss,
Gazes from the doors and windows spinning more truth and untruth,
Into an ever intruding rhythm of solitude and crumbling whispers;
As the dusty breeze of fear and quietness survive in fragments…?

Rajdeep Pathak
May 19, 2019