<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><rss version="1.0"><channel><title>Diary of ratul banerjee</title><link>http://wilma11.rediffiland.com/</link><description>Diary of ratul banerjee</description><language>en-us</language><item><title>THE BREAK OF DAWN</title><description><![CDATA[<br><img src="http://ri.rediffiland.com/homepimages/home5/19/c5b75a6b016b7b9ca9628f58e95edfbb/homep/images/1219249964">]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:56:08 +0530</pubDate><link>http://wilma11.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/08/20/THE-BREAK-OF-DAWN-1.html</link></item><item><title>THE ROYAL OCCASION</title><description><![CDATA[<br><img src="http://ri.rediffiland.com/homepimages/home5/19/c5b75a6b016b7b9ca9628f58e95edfbb/homep/images/1219248950">]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:38:52 +0530</pubDate><link>http://wilma11.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/08/20/THE-ROYAL-OCCASION-1.html</link></item><item><title>ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE</title><description><![CDATA[<br><img src="http://ri.rediffiland.com/homepimages/home5/19/c5b75a6b016b7b9ca9628f58e95edfbb/homep/images/1219224992">]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:04:40 +0530</pubDate><link>http://wilma11.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/08/20/ANOTHER-DAY-IN-PARADISE-1.html</link></item><item><title>ETHNICITY ----- A RURAL LANDSCAPE</title><description><![CDATA[<br><img src="http://ri.rediffiland.com/homepimages/home5/19/c5b75a6b016b7b9ca9628f58e95edfbb/homep/images/1219079057">]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:27:37 +0530</pubDate><link>http://wilma11.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/08/18/ETHNICITY-A-RURAL-LANDSCAPE-1.html</link></item><item><title>COUNTRY SIDE</title><description><![CDATA[<br><img src="http://ri.rediffiland.com/homepimages/home5/19/c5b75a6b016b7b9ca9628f58e95edfbb/homep/images/1219076783">]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:51:59 +0530</pubDate><link>http://wilma11.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/08/18/COUNTRY-SIDE-1.html</link></item><item><title>RIVERS OF FAITH</title><description><![CDATA[<br><img src="http://ri.rediffiland.com/homepimages/home5/19/c5b75a6b016b7b9ca9628f58e95edfbb/homep/images/1219019647">]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:49:43 +0530</pubDate><link>http://wilma11.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/08/18/RIVERS-OF-FAITH-1.html</link></item><item><title>THE TRUTH AND TRUTH ALONE</title><description><![CDATA[<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">   I don't know if I could ever get the truth <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>Of what lies beyond the inevitable falsification and the fiction <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>If I could ever dig into the depths and know the lie <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>If I could ever ... <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>I would sacrifice all coxcomb, all glitter and glamour of my life <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>I would only kneel down in all humbleness with clasped hands and a pure heart <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>To fulfill my own edification and pursuit of the truth <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>I believe the truth is a blatant one , an impartial judgment<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>, good and bad alike <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>For those with attitudes , the truth , so debatable and stark <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>Like sudden streaks of lightning on a dark night <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>That only momentarily dispel the dark , yet there's a temporal light <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>That lights the world for some precious seconds <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>And justifies the truth of things , by shunning all falsification ?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>Coz u get to know how the world looks like in a moment of catastrophe <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>The actual picture , caught in the eye lens for some moments <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>Coz the flashes of lightning suffices it all <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>And u get to know the truth <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>The truth when the lightning must have struck the nearby almond tree and how it perished <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>Charred and burnt .. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </SPAN>The truth in itself is a lie <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </SPAN>For those who dare not believe in it <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </SPAN>Yet restore faith in nothing lest the truth <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </SPAN>Coz that only restores peace of the mind and the soul <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">     </SPAN>The truth, however blatant, if deciphered ...<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">     </SPAN>U won't regret that <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">     </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">     </SPAN>Believe in nothing but the truth and truth alone <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:57:41 +0530</pubDate><link>http://wilma11.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/08/18/THE-TRUTH-AND-TRUTH-ALONE-1.html</link></item><item><title>COUNTRY ROADS - TAKE ME HOME</title><description><![CDATA[<br><img src="http://ri.rediffiland.com/homepimages/home5/19/c5b75a6b016b7b9ca9628f58e95edfbb/homep/images/1217895291">]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:49:52 +0530</pubDate><link>http://wilma11.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/08/05/COUNTRY-ROADS-TAKE-ME-HOME-1.html</link></item><item><title>HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY</title><description><![CDATA[<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff>Well, HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY to all. What is the definition of a friend ? A friend - someone supporting u , molding u, caring for u, and standing by u in good times and in bad times? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A friend  someone who can make u smile when u find its so hard to smile ? And definitely, that makes a big difference when a friend greets u saying " Hello" in contrast to<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>someone else saying it so. </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff> </FONT></STRONG></o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff>U know, if friendship was akin to a humane chain of love, warmth , fellow feeling so on and so forth, it just stands firm on these support of ' long lost' values that make up friendship. And this humane chain can never be ripped apart by the unforeseen forces of negativity in our lives. Friendship  a humane sign, coz friends are forever . Even if not existent any more or drifted apart physically, the memoirs of friendship would never  those memoirs flicker on like an oriflamme , dispelling the dark and adding warmth to the humane chain , that's friendship .</FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff> </FONT></STRONG></o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And almost everyday , we are infact befriending some one or the other .. The humane chain thus grows .. And please don't look into the some negative aspects of friendship, just override it, coz its so insignificant when compared to the quality analysis of friendship  friendship begets friends, and some day even when we die , we just know that there's at least something left of ourselves behind- some memoirs atleast , fond memoirs that will be cherished by our friends ----- we have left behind our valued friends . </FONT></STRONG></P>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:20:03 +0530</pubDate><link>http://wilma11.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/08/04/HAPPY-FRIENDSHIP-DAY-1.html</link></item><item><title>THE DESERTED HOME</title><description><![CDATA[<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">  <STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff>Like a pencil of rays filtering out through the wedge on the closed doorway </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>And sufficing it all to light away the prevailing dark </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>The fathomless dark within the deserted home </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Where time appears as a statichor </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>No one, not a soul lingers in this home </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff>   </FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>All is silence, no cries, no laughter , no groans </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>The silence in itself deafening </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>Dreams dreamt once upon a time appear frozen and cold </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>There's even no warmth in these emanating rays to melt those broken dreams </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>Everything there , so moist and cold ..</FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff>   </FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>Seconds pass by .. Time flows by </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>The world outside changes day by day </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>Witnessing what is left behind by those winds of change </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>Lest the deserted home remains as it is .</FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff>   </FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>No one dares to tread the path to its depths , to unravel its untold secrets </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>It remains deserted , a forlorn story though , sadness rampant everywhere </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>And even if someday the world perishes </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN>The deserted home will be left untouched <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>by nature </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Who too has ceased interest in blemishing even that deserted home, perched up precariously atop the hills confronting the countryside </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff>   </FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </SPAN>Like a miserable soul, transfixed and in pain </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </SPAN>The deserted home remains there, poise as it was </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </SPAN>How long will it remain, unblemished, indestructible, no one quite knows </FONT></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><FONT color=#3333ff><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </SPAN>Witnessing mutely all that's left of yesterday ? </FONT></STRONG></P>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:59:54 +0530</pubDate><link>http://wilma11.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/07/30/THE-DESERTED-HOME-1.html</link></item></channel></rss>