Subhadip Maitra

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Subhadip Maitra was born in 1980 and stays at Kolkata. After finishing his Masters in Journalism from Calcutta University he joined television news media. He had worked in ABP Ananda and various Bengali news media. He had started writing poems and short stories 2005 onward. He had written articles and edited books as well. His poetries, short stories and essays have been published in various magazines of West Bengal, Bangladesh and USA. His first book of poem Jadukori Boighar published in 2014. Subhadip Maitra also writes short stories and one of them got published in a book of Short stories of first decade this century in bengali named Shunya Doshoker Golpo Sangraha. Subhadip Maitra also edited books and booklets on various issues. Sachar Report & Problems of Minority in India, Marginalization and Sixty Years of Independence, West Asia Crisis are few of them. Subhadip Maitra translates poems and essays and stories from Bengali to English for various magazines.)

The Best Poem Of Subhadip Maitra

Now I Know Days Of My Hassle Have Begun

A death, which was for us,
by Broughams wheel under the foggy gas lamp,
and resurrecting like pious murderer Raskolikov
– it was denied to him.

He thought to keep on your bosom’s cleft,
spine of poem and turn pages,
on your skin, like spotted clothe,
will shiver warmth of the words.

but winter evening
does not have any hue, while the old garret waits
for the darkness to pounce.

See the inert body of poetry
killed by calculated math sleeping on my table
like your unmindful scarf left with me.
Now it lies upturned, like a
chloroformed frog
to cease under my gloves,
and he has not learned the trick of begetting.

I remember the silk scarf,
flakes from cigarette wrecked it
ink from my pen wrecked it
absence of your neck, shoulders, breasts, wrecked it

now I know days of my hassle have begun.

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