Pentasect waited for such a piece and it came, litte late but in splendour. A parody in rhyme – on Recession by Nilambar. A quartret in imagination: four Bengali poets telling about Recession.

Lord Tirpuati, perhaps the only God who is considered a business partner in legal documents by ‘partners’ and receive ‘share’ as a legitimate partner gets in his legendery Hundi. A short, frame by frame description of a family’s experience of the Darshan and tid-bits, ladoos included.

This year September, I had written a book called The Wordsmith Sutras - a collection of 200 word essays each, on the themes of our lives like Education, Sex, Fitness, Media and Debt. In Debt, I wrote Debt is an addiction. It is addictive only when there are too many people offering debt. Be aware of debt. In the smoke and mirror show called this world, this easy credit (=debt) may dry up leaving you in addiction and also to pay interest for previous addictive sessions.