Tilak Amitava Chowdhury

I truly believe that our spirits are thousands of years old. And the learnings of each birth is retained by the soul and is never forgotten. The knowledge about our past lives are dormant within us but is very much there. I am sure we have a Buddha within all of us that is waiting to be awakened by the right stimuli.  I think the time is here. The time is now. As a civilization, in the last five hundred years or so we have lived like the Gautama the prince. Someone who has been born into riches and is distant from any kind of pain. We have science as the courtesans offering us all the amusements our mortal bodies seek. But the soul is left malnourished with our over indulgence in materialism.  But now as we look around, our extravagance has cost us dearly. We have ruined our environment. We have poisoned the air, water and Earth. We have stopped thinking about our very existence.  It's time the Gautama enters the cave within and prays long and hard. And emerges as the Buddha. All o

It only seems like yesterday That a small town guy moved to a new town with parents In search of a life He learnt new languages, aspired for new dreams and dreamt a new life The dream has come true Today he has all that he desired for then and a bit more. The more is somewhat pleasant and a lot unpleasant The more has brought him problems he never dreamt of while dreaming his dreams Today the small boy is a success story in his own right He has gazes sizing him when he passes the road on two legs or car But he isn't happy The insecurities of yesterday have bloomed to be the Judas tree Tempting to expose and ruin everything in moments Today life is so loveless Love is a mirage, a shadow that mocks him through day and night Provoking him to venture forbidden alleys Only to be left more hungry, more thirsty and more desperate Sometimes he wonders if there is anything called love or is it just lust dripping from everywhere? He loves hard and yet hardly is rewarded wit

When I'm with you, I feel I'm in a time machine I feel I am transported back to the times when Gods lived on Earth and everything around us was pure Bliss Yes, that is what I feel with you, pure Bliss I feel the time has stopped and I'm in an ocean of eternity, constantly floating up and down with the water cleansing my soul With you I feel that I connect with the everflowing surges of happiness that touches my heart and I feel a sense of ecstacy I never felt before With you, I feel so light that I can imagine myself floating in the sky with the birds happily meditating in the sky connected to the creator With you, I realise the power of yin and yang, the coming together of two parts to make one whole. I start believing that there are soul mates and we are a pair too A pair forged at a time when the world began and will continue till the world lasts When we kiss, I feel like the butterflies tasting the sweetest nectar on Earth. Holding you makes me feel my hands a

Dreams are so delicate, so fragile Cannot withstand the stones hurled by reality Sometimes it's best not to wakeup from sleep at all To save your dreams from the shattering cruelty Yet we dream on Building castles after castles in the air Wanting to fill them with comfort and hope But only end up in despair You are one such dream of mine You kept smiling at me in my sleep But shattered to wakeup and see it over And then the pain that makes you weep Life is a fucked up joke We are all fucking joker's in the game Trying to change our destinies forever But every time the result is the same The time we spend together is the most lovely time of my life Will cherish it till I'm alive You made my dead emotions dance And made my senses jive But then it's all a mirage Ultimately it's always gone with the wind The mere thought of losing you Forms a lump in my throat and chokes my mind I know nothing is permanent is life Neither you, me or us Still

Just as the birds are happiest when their wings kiss the sky Just as the babies sleep blissfully Listening to their mother's lullaby You complete me Just as the butterflies blissfully suckle at the flowers Just as the lovers stare at the window of their love for hours You complete me Just as the earth devotedly revolves around the sun Just as the seven colours in sunlight Become one You complete me You are the poetry my soul has been seeking for years Your laughter and smiles brings me Fresh happy tears Together we are complete and strong Together we can make right all that's wrong You complete me Be with me forever till I'm alive Breathe with me & never leave my side Complete my life and stay in there forever fill my soul with happiness and pride You complete me

You command everyone's attention When you ta lk or simply sit You are the roaring elegant queen And everyone loves you for it You are known for your beauty, poise and pure eternal grace You are brave, strong and have a reassuring embrace You are a lovely hostess pampering everyone around Your laughter is magical With a lovely thundering sound You are beautiful when you leave your hair free flowing and open You resemble the mythical goddesses From Greece, Italy and Spain Being around you is an honor, pleasure and responsibility, all bundled in one Holding your hand and staring in your eyes is a divine delight for any one I am privileged to know you But want to know you fully well Want to spend my life with you So it gets spent like a true fairytale Be my friend my lover my philosopher and my guide Take me as your admirer and let me be part of your pride You and me we complement each other Like the sun and the moon are inseparable from one another

Most of the people around me are dead already Their eyes are like the eyes of dead fish Resigned to their fate to die a slow suffocating death Their walk has lost the bounce and vigour of childhood, to grow up to be walking dead Is this the world we want to live in? A world where we are alive because we have no other choice? We have made machines our new masters Slowly everyday we handover the reins of our lives to them as we slide into a lifeless stupor Wake up mankind wake up We have not come this far only to get no far from here We are not going to write our epitaph just yet We survived because we are fighters Solution seekers and rain makers Let's retrace our footsteps Let's rediscover the way our forefathers lived They had difficult lives but they were more alive than we are today We are like the Dracula, someone who is blessed to live forever as long as he is willing to be more dead than alive Is this the best we can do? The mankind - creator of the gods

The film mountain between us is a simple story. A storm, A mountain, two professionals, one recklessly sick pilot and a dog. Meagre ingredients for a movie. But the movie touches you deeply. Hits you hard like the sinking Titanic and it's soulful background track. The mountain in the movie is the metaphor we all have in our relationships. It's the mountain and the storm that brings people closer. The lonely souls wandering in the sea of souls, looking for something neither knows. It's so true in our modern lives. We are all living busy lives, chasing dreams. Then life takes over sometimes, creating situations and circumstances that gets us meet people whom we were otherwise never going to meet. Call it destiny or karma or whatever you choose. But these people, places and circumstances help us reach deep within ourselves and find us the anchors in the sea of life. Then life is never the same anymore...there is positive vibrations all around and we follow the vibrations to r

I think the word international is mostly abused in today's world. However, the International Dam Safety Conference I'm talking about was a welcome exception. It was truly a congregation of more than 700 specialists who attended as delegates representing over 30 different countries. The conference was hosted at Bhubaneswar, Odisha was a delight for both the science and art lovers. The two day event had a perfect mix of scientific knowledge and artistic expressions. A beautiful sand art welcomed the gathering and many cultural activities welcomed the global experts to the rich and diversified culture of Odisha. It was a delight for me as I was able to participate the exhibition as a host of sorts on two fronts - firstly as an Indian welcoming the experts to my Country and secondly my Company was one of the knowledge partners of this mega event. My company has been associated with the event since it's inception and has been a party and witness of the evolution of the exhibi

Four more shots has everything that the modern Indian craves for - sex, success, freedom, individuality and it has everything that is wrong with our lives today - no intimacy, no happiness, no contentment, no spirituality. The show reminds me of a very famous song by Remo which had a line - you are in a crowd but you are always all alone. That's what the series is all about. A successful lawyer, a successful entrepreneur, a successful fitness trainer and a well to do heiress, stuck in their mundane lives. They have broken the glass ceiling - the restrictions that we have all grown up with. No late nights, no booze, shhh no sex, no over spending. But we have material success today we have money to spend but no one to share the success with. So amidst the loud orgasms and loud fuck yous I find miserably lonely successful people don't know how to deal with a life they all aspired for. As Yuval Harari writes in his books Sapiens and Homo Deus, individualism has killed Gods. Mater