4. Cover Note
Hello friends,
“Badhonchara” – ‘without any boundaries’ is a sincere and heartfelt effort to bring out the immense
creativity that lies in each one of us - every single family member of the growing WBA community.
As “probashi bangali” most of us , and more so, our siblings -as the younger generation aren’t well versed
with the bangla culture.
We believe within each of us resides a child – a child that is pure and full of creativity. However, due to our
hectic work and personal life schedules, somewhere , this creativity most often remains buried within!
We strongly feel, it would enable the growing WBA family to connect much better within ourselves , month
after month. Some of the sections of Badhonchara will also help in enriching our children as well as most of
us with the rich Bengali culture.
We are keen and want to invite more and more voluntary participation from every member of WBA and
build on this magazine.
Bandhonchara : Give our dreams their wings
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14. Did you love me before when we never even
met?
Did you feel that we could pass those
serpentine alleys
The dark reality of the ageing city
Come together and breathe each other
Loving and hating all that was on offer?
Did you look at me when you did not even
know
Where to look
Bewildered and wild, like a confused child
Looking for a bosom to rest in peace?
While the mighty Ganges caressed and the
cool breeze teased
Did you smell me on you even when you had
no idea I existed?
Then when you met me and drank me in
Did you feel you had reached an end and that
there would be
A new beginning?
Did you love me then like now, like you would
Even if I just appeared like a star and faded
away
Before the light years brought you my twinkle?
Did you love me essentially,like an abstract art
With awe inspired looks and thoughts that would
put
Even the greatest artists to shame?
Did you feel the passion gather together
Like a mighty storm brewing and a seizure laid
While all you could do was choke on the
emotions rumbling
Like luminous clouds before a rainfall?
Did you love me even when you knew I could not
Yet the feeling so overpowering it had to be felt
Like the blood throbbing in your veins like it
would burst open
And you writhing in excruciating pain would
smile like you knew It had
to happen.
Me and You.
DID YOU LOVE ME
Shruti Goswami