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Chrysanthemum

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White petal at the bolinksom The wine glass emptied With faith unwavering In the game for darkness The sheet coloured … Red petal wiped over The equally bloodied lips In Learning another Love Undying and loyal … The chrysanthemum’s necrosing To yellow then wrinkles In the arrangement called life Someone nourish it…

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Raichak Long Drive-Part 1:The Preparation

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On a certain Friday in April 2011 I was standing, rather getting roasted under the scorching sun’s rays in a certain bus-stop when Aniruddha Mittra aka Ching, The Voyager in my Gang, called up. ‘Shon T ei Sunday free rakhis, Baba ke bole gari ta arrange korchi, amra long drive e berobo for the whole [...]

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Not a good feeling

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3.30 AM: Just now a friend texted me if I was interested to go night-walking towards the Gynae building and have some tea there. On our way we spotted a boy, hardly in his teens, lying all bare on the hospital corridor with only a cement bag that hardly covered him! I cringed in shock [...]

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@TheNewBong-ali

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Sometime back, there was a very interresting article on Bong-Buzz. However, due to some weird reason, everyone seems to have missed it. Basically, Bong-Buzz (BB, hereafter) as a positive step towards gaining much more readership than it presently has, invited an accomplished author to contribute literary niceties to the otherwise well-designed pages. And before the [...]

Love Story – V

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“Where are you?  But you said you were at the Metro station 15 minutes ago! I’ve already bought our tickets. No, no, I’m not going in without you. Yes, ok, I’m waiting. Hurry up.” I was waiting outside the theatre, movie tickets in hand. The movie had started 5 minutes ago. We had planned for [...]

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WWGHD?

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It means what would Gregory House do? One of my friends is mortally ill. He contracted a Hepatitis A infection and went down with fulminant hepatic failure, which is quite rare in Hep A infection. Subsequently, he suffered from massive intravascular hemolysis and the resulting hemoglobinuria precipitated and acute renal failure. He was put on [...]

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Kill Sweet Desire

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I watched the monitors as they slowly but surely blinked and bleeped slower and slower. The heart rate was going down. The Blood pressure was plummeting. The fever was going up. The urine output was trickling to a stop. Inotropes on full blast were doing no good. Glasgow Coma Scale rating was a dismal 3/15. [...]

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New Kid on the Blog!

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Hello! I am the newest member on the Bongbuzz Blog. So, I thought it was only fair that I started with an introduction of myself! Now, although we all have been doing this since we were in class I, or even earlier, in some cases, I still find it an intimidating task to go about [...]

Break Even

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The mornings are the worst. The moment you gain consciousness, it all comes flooding back to you. That you are no longer loved. And you immediately sink into such sadness that you lay back in bed, pull the covers up higher, close your eyes tight shut and try to fall asleep again. Because the few [...]

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The Pujas are coming!

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A deep sense of longing in anticipation of the Durga Pujas, less than a month from now.

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