In Compassion
Creative Writings of Anuradha Bhattacharyya
Thursday 4 April 2024
Light Inspired by Anuradha Bhattacharyya
Sunday 9 May 2021
Corona Doldrums
Friday 25 December 2020
The Webinars
Conferences, seminars and symposiums were sponsored
Once in a year by academic institutes
With scrutiny of the strictest kind…
The new norm has transported everyone abroad
In a jiffy, with the onrush of emotion,
The need to strengthen ties with others
Across the length and breadth
Of this wonderful planet –
That so near threatens
To be taken over by a clever virus
That’s evolving every month for a better grip
On human life, animals and birds,
Devouring the richest heritage of medicine
In no time, straining all of human faculties.
The webinars have solved the quandary
Of distance, and through virtual exchanges
Much of knowledge is still spread,
Discussed, analyzed and reformed. Well,
Thanks to the time of the twenty first century
The century of hi-tech and the century of the internet;
Thanks to all the homework done before
Now work from home is not a problem.
We did not know what would befall this year
But we did want the speed of light.
From wheels of wood we have come this far
In our toils on this vast planet of ours
That no one should blame us
For lack of movement from place to place anymore.
Wednesday 23 December 2020
Nothing
In a void,
Stranded for a short while,
The space, the environment chokes you.
You fear the limit,
The possibility of containing nothing,
Screaming to be released from the trap.
It must be terrifying –
The fear of the uncontrollable, the unknown
The lack of a prospect.
It is possible to demonstrateDignagar Poetry Festival (Online) December 2020
How a person is driven crazy
With the fear of nothing.
It will never go
Unless there is acceptance
After which progress can be made.
Tuesday 24 November 2020
Struggle
We
cannot now step back
In
the midst of a struggle
And
think how or when
It
will give us strength
For
the future.
We
can only wait and watch
While
all along
Like
the worm wriggling out of a cocoon
With
gumption and fortitude
Try
to become the better of ourselves.
Insight
Words
and numbers transposed
Often
render a new meaning
Not
available to the quick eyed.
Insight
Can
offer a service to a people
Far
superior to their own.
Wednesday 26 August 2020
Virtual Classes
Our leaders
Asked us to be self reliant
But all about me is
Micro chip reliance
There used to be
A hundred hearts
Throbbing in the cover
Of the school
Now lost in quantum space
Are floating heads
You can not tell if the heart is in it
On screen
It so seems
The nose might have it
Or maybe the eyebrows
I practically feel
Helpless
Talking to infinity
Paranoid chatter
And much less
Myself
In virtual space.