Binayak Banerjee

Kolkata

Binayak BANERJEE (fiction writer, poet, playwright; India) is the author of the novels [A Year with Sohagini] (2008), [The Winner] (2009), and [Star Harbor] (2011), the poem collections [You My Life, You Alien] (2008), and [One Hundred Love Poems] (2013), and, in 2013, the play [Rabindranath Public Limited] (2013). He writes for Bengali literary magazines, is engaged with the Shakespeare Society of Eastern India, and teaches English at the Sri Ram Roy School and the Syamaprasad College in Kolkata.

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First poem not shown to Dad You couldn’t invest in real estate Nor buy posh cars Nor did you take us to tour in some lavish mountain or ocean But Opened your pot and fed us sweetmeats One by one every night... media_text	Honeymoon She told me over the phone, ’Guess what, we went to Goa, ... A train-ride from Bombay, with mountains on one side And little villages on the other, intruded by A sublet of the sea. We... media_text	Third Person Satish’s habit of reading the newspaper early in the morning was gone a long time ago. He had that urge when he had to dress up and go on duty, sitting in front of the wheel and narrating to his boss in a nutshell... media_text
Religion and Writing My World, My Writing By Binayak Banerjee (India) Poetry, to me, is a continuous struggle to bridge the sense of materialistic cosmopolitan presence with the realm of emotional privacy. Now, this privacy... media_text	Some of them Will dread to speak straight Maintain a distance between the cup and the lip Will scatter bits of politeness In a cauldron of arrogance And conclude that it's perfectly fine... Will find... media_text	Restraining to be a Binoy Majumdar They opened a window and their mouths they rinsed And spilled on their anger-laughter and cries thus cleansed And if they were in reach they’d have been beaten black n blue Let my kites lose their path... media_text

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