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Editorial – Sreetanwi Chakraborty

Sunday Talks Editorial

“Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness.” –                                                                                                                                                                       Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sunday mornings in Kolkata always nurture a frolicking flavour of their own. They are almost similar in their peculiar resemblance to either a pothouse of combustible emotions, verbose interim moments at the local tea-stalls, ( I somehow tend to forget, or do not know if it is my callousness that it is the peak phase of the pandemic that we are encountering right now!), the tingling of the rickshaw-bells, the vegetable vendors huddling across the passages of the serpentine North Kolkata lanes, the regular spate of colours that children love to splash in their Sunday drawing fiestas, and finally the ‘sholoaana Bangali’ afternoon lunch in Kolkata homes.
When I think of a Sun-kissed, a spring-fed or a storm-stricken-rain-coated Kolkata, I either tend to pass into a state of oblivion, deep under the recesses of past memories, moments and easels of love churned out of toxicities, or else, I again, once more, repeatedly, every time (readers, pardon my over-indulgence into this escalating half-capacitated reiterations!) start to play the spoilt Cupid brat, falling in love with the delicate rhythms of the city. It is about the excess of everything outsiders might sometimes detest about the city, but it is also true how I remember Amit Chaudhuri’s beautiful lines about Calcutta, where he said that Calcutta has still not recovered from history, people mourn the past and abhor it deeply.
If it is this exhortation about the Sunday-drenched city, then it can go on as a thesis, a photography, a kaleidoscope of various disparate emotions, but we need to wind up, as it is Sunday, and we present here a host of lovely writers who have orchestrated their own way at organizing ‘Sunday Talks’- through features, short stories and poems.
Wish all the readers a rocking Sunday. Happy reading.
Send in your articles, poems, shorts stories, travelogues, thoughts, reflections, anything that you find creative and productive enough to be part of Sunday Talks.
Write to Sreetanwi at sreesup@gmail.com/or techtouchtalk@gmail.com
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