Anuradha Bhattacharyya

Anuradha Bhattacharyya Poems

1.

Each apple
When tasted
Feels sweet
When chewed
...

2.

Too much sacrifice of life
In walking a dog
Painted on oil paper
Degenerates unfinished
...

Buzzing all day honey they gathered
From the daisy and the marigold
Flitting from one branch to another
All built up a hive of gold.
...

4.

As long as you keep
Imprisoned in conceit
There's no holding hands;
Pleasure not for me
...

A piquant whistle
Has shattered the panes.
The window, perpetually open
Confides secrets of the world
...

Sometimes in my dreams
I suffocate myself
In the pressure of
Your clasp, and then
...

These alluring castles
Hurry you to quick sand.
Not only is there no fountain,
But disaster.
...

The index of the point of a spear
In parabola directs action.
Touching ground leaves no clear
Statement of its course in air.
...

A sudden storm burst
The equanimity of
The dazzling white
Moistening the arid brown flesh.
...

Having sold his entire life
Baking bread in a tavern
With a shaky disoriented wife,
My father had a plan.
...

11.

A dismal figure,
Despairing heart
Leaning on a pole
Of tattered memories.
...

12.

Consciousness stumbles
Willy nilly on the knots;
A junk of new combinations
Pile on stacks;
...

13.

What hounds are these
That sniff at me;
Am I in decay?
...

There is no vision, only blinding light.
It is not after all
A mechanical matter
Of cognitive development;
...

She collects
Her favourite things
In her bag.
Sometimes
...

16.

Let go of that slimy tongue
That slithered over my wound
And made me numb
Towards the ever present.
...

They clamour to partake in
Delight of my encore.
I exalt in their adulation.
Every day I come here to display
...

In the fields that I cross
And the mountains that I view,
There is always a loneliness of heart.
I have gone beyond the limits of my
...

I shall give you a surprise
One day, my love…

When the sky is not downcast
...

Three years I grew
In rain and sunshine
Limiting my frolics
For a better tomorrow.
...

Anuradha Bhattacharyya Biography

Dr. Anuradha Bhattacharyya is author of Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi Award winning novels One Word 2016 and Still She Cried 2019. She is a prolific writer and poet of long standing, with poetry on topics ranging from life, love to death and immortality. She has won the Poiesis Award for Excellence in Literature for her short story Painting Black and Blue in 2018. She has been honoured with the Commendation Award on Republic Day of India from the Governor of Chandigarh in 2019. Her first book of poems was published in 1998. Since then she has been widely anthologized and interviewed. She has published two academic books, The Lacanian Author and Twentieth Century European Literature. Knots is her book of poems on the theme of friendship and Lofty - to fill up a cultural chasm is on the theme of love and responsibility. Anuradha is the only daughter of Professor Tapan Kumar Bhattacharyya and Chitra Bhattacharyya. Chitra's father Professor Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya is a well known art historian, who served as the first Director of the Indian Museum till 1975 and published 37 books thereafter. He received the 2017 Padma Shri Award in the field of archeology. Her book of poems My Dadu 2020 is based on her interactions with her grandfather in his home since her childhood. The poems had won a grant-in-aid for publication from the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi in the category of English poetry. Anuradha's father was a professor of Engineering and a strict father. Anuradha is known for being rebellious and willful. Her stint with poetry has emerged from her repressed emotions She graduated from Banasthali Vidyapith in 1996. It was a place she did not like to live in. She completed her Masters in English from Jadavpur University in 1998. There she lived for two years with her grandfather. Professor Ananda Lal was her tutor. It was during this term that her poetry came to light as professor P. Lal published her first book of poems. She is a PhD from IIT Kharagpur, where she received her JRF from 2000 to 2003. After living in seven different cities since her birth, she settled in Chandigarh in 2006 with her government service and is presently Associate Professor of English in PG Government College, Sector-11, Chandigarh, INDIA. She lives with her husband Atul Singh and daughter Anusmita.)

The Best Poem Of Anuradha Bhattacharyya

Apple

Each apple
When tasted
Feels sweet
When chewed
Quite sour
When swallowed
Leaves a bitterness
In the mouth.

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