I was talking about clouds to my favourite rikshaw-puller Ashoka Aloka Pulaka Pavaka These four types of clouds control everything for us I was about to say regulate but found myself asking Do you read Sarvodaya ? or Pathavarta ? because nowadays The newspapers straitjacket the public’s language For instance, when public life is disrupted It is understood that the meeting has been successful I can’t leave you for the same reason that I can’t Quit smoking I also told him about this song, After haggling over the fare When I finally sat on the rickshaw It was quite clear that the rate of the bourgeois’ words Cannot be hiked any further.
Born in 1960, Kolkata, Sutapa Sengupta is a Bengali poet and author of several acclaimed collections of poetry and translations. She has been awarded with Krittivas Puroskar , Krittivas Literary Group, Kolkata and Sukanta Puroskar , State Govt of West Bengal.