Dusk - Sudiptaa Bhattacharya The sky, Change its form. I sit alone, On a roof by norm. Just as a ritual, As they fly casual. They are the birds, That passed, bidding adieu, To the day.
The novel by Rabindranath Tagore " Ghore Baire" is translated as "Home and the world" though 'Baire' in Bengali means not 'the world' but 'outside'. In the novel we find Bimala, a typical Indian woman of a Zamindar family (rather the wife of a Zamindar) who remained on the other side of the Zenana, whose husband being quite progressive pushes her to the outside world. There, we find Bimala, a woman who never got a chance in her life to know any other man except her husband. The entire outside world is unknown to her. Technically speaking, Nikhil, her husband is 'home' to her and Sandip her husband's friend is 'world' to her, he is the first complete unknown man in her life, a man whom she comes to know after her husband. This is the reason we find Nikhil saying to Bimala, 'if you will not go to the world, the world will come to you' as Sandip arrives. Here, we find Bimala fails to understand the actual colour of S...