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Aneek Chatterjee |
Nibaran, Amito & Shibnath*
In this summer, Amito Roy proposed:
‘Let’s go to Shillong for a trip.
We plan to take Nibaran Charabarty, the
sensational poet along; you’ll enjoy his new,
radically different verse’.
I felt tempted & when I was about
to agree, Gora rushed in:
‘Dada, people are dying in the pandemic
& you’re sitting idle ? Come with me,
the world needs you’.
When I was eating & sleeping poetry;
when I was living & revelling in
my poetry, Charulata threw her published poem
on my face. I was stunned to discover the
talent,
whom I always knew as a pretty home
maker.
At the dead of each dark night,
when I face you, Tagore,
thousand lights glow & tell me afresh
about a poet, novelist, short story teller,
painter,
singer, nationalist, social thinker & a
lot more …
& when night fades into dawn,
my feared school teacher, Shibnath babu,
who has both sting & teeth,
appears with a long stick:
‘you idiot, don’t just stand here;
go & read Tagore, to know
the mystery of life & beyond’.
After about three hours, in the library,
Nibaran Chakrabarty says:
always look for the new, for the fresh,
come out of monotony, see the world.
*All names used in this poem are from novels
and stories written by Tagore
Bio: Aneek Chatterjee is a poet and academic from Kolkata, India. He has been published in reputed literary magazines and anthologies across the globe. He authored 15 books including three poetry collections and a novel. His third poetry collection “of Ashes and Persiflage” (New Delhi and Kolkata, Hawakal) came out in November, 2020. Chatterjee has a Ph.D. in International Relations; and has been teaching in leading Indian and foreign universities. He was a Fulbright Visiting faculty at the University of Virginia, USA and a recipient of the prestigious ICCR Chair to teach abroad. His poetry has been archived at Yale University.
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