Tilak Amitava Chowdhury

As a child, I have always been fascinated by the birds. Well, I don't actually love love birds, but I found it very intriguing that these tiny little creatures had the power to migrate thousands of miles to save themselves, year after year. The remember the direction like it's in their DNA, passed on from generation to generation, along with this unbeatable survival instinct. They also are born leaders. They instinctively know how to choose to lead and give up that position when they feel they are no more in that position and someone else is better suited for it at that time.  I feel that we humans, though we claim to be the most superior of species, seem to lack this instinct, the instinct to be selfless when it comes to saving the community. We claim to ourselves that we are a social bunch. We even created a branch of study dedicated to the society - sociology. But are we really social? Are we really like the birds and animals who lead and follow seamlessly according to the s...

Machines are coming. Machines are taking over. But I'm still optimistic. I'm still confident of the immense potential that each one of us have. We the humans have created everything that we are going through at this point in time. Nature is just the backdrop, like a side role in a Bollywood flick.  True, every raw material comes from nature. But transforming the raw materials into something so different and powerful that one wonders if there is any resemblance between the raw material and the finished product, is the skill of human kind. It's the ultimate culmination of art, science, imagination, observation, perseverance, grit, vision and desire that has transformed our world into what it is today. We have come a long way, from the dark caves to the limelight of the socialite parties, from the era of helplessness to the era of attempting to be God.  Wait a minute! Are we trying to be God? Are we trying to create us? Yes but then again may be that is what God wants us to do...

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 Bud...

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