Special Section: Sumana Bhattacharjee

City Nostalgia

As I walk through the city's lane 

Something stirs in my stagnant brain.

Those old buildings and golden memory,

Some ancient story full of disdain or glory.

As the evening fall to night

The sparkling of evening street -lights...

That brighten the dimming daylight,

Takes me to an other height.

What happened to this city 

Everybody chasing towards dream

Becoming insane without sanity,

About to forget our own identity.

Walking through the memory lane

Rarely I get any footprint or name,

Those shoppers, hawkers, footpath- walkers

All behave like busy fighter.

The life that once seemed slow and little lazy 

Difficulties of time made us crazy,

Is this the effect of globalisation

Or the result of modernisation?

The city has gone through so many transformation..

The new look, splendour and moderation,

But in my imagination the city seems an illusion

My nostalgic heart couldn't find any solution.

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Bio: Sumana Bhattacharjee is an English poetry and quote writer from India. She born and brought up in city Kolkata and still residing there. From her childhood she has keen interest in music, poetry and drama. She is a published poet and her poems have been published in more than twenty national and international anthologies, ezines and blogs . She is the founder of an online poetry group and working as an admin of five poetry and literally groups. She is passionate of poetry and music and she thinks that the poetry is the best way to spread her inner thought around the world.

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Setu, December 2025