BAHANAGA: A notebook with drawings in red, blue, green and violet on the left pages and handwritten poems of love on the right stood out among the tattered remains of personal belongings strewn on the tracks at Bahanaga, the site of Friday’s tragic three-train pile-up.
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“Olpo olpo megh theke bristi shristi hoi, chotto chotto golpo theke bhalobasha shristi hoi (small clouds create rain, small tales create love)” — read one of them, neatly written in Bengali.
The unclaimed notebook found near a backpack and a waist pouch does not mention the poet’s name, neither makes any reference. The verses are addressed to no one in particular. Page after page, the poet wrote on love and yearning, trying to address the ups and downs of a relationship.
Is the author alive? Nobody can tell.
The notebook is emblematic of the tragedy. As are the piles of footwear, none in matching order. Suitcases and backpacks, some open and some intact. Clothes, mostly torn and some stained with blood. Or, a child’smangled and maimed doll without arms.
Railway ground crews and volunteers looked around Saturday to salvage whatever they could, painstakingly clearing the tracks for trains to run again and life to move on.
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“Olpo olpo megh theke bristi shristi hoi, chotto chotto golpo theke bhalobasha shristi hoi (small clouds create rain, small tales create love)” — read one of them, neatly written in Bengali.
The unclaimed notebook found near a backpack and a waist pouch does not mention the poet’s name, neither makes any reference. The verses are addressed to no one in particular. Page after page, the poet wrote on love and yearning, trying to address the ups and downs of a relationship.
Is the author alive? Nobody can tell.
The notebook is emblematic of the tragedy. As are the piles of footwear, none in matching order. Suitcases and backpacks, some open and some intact. Clothes, mostly torn and some stained with blood. Or, a child’smangled and maimed doll without arms.
Railway ground crews and volunteers looked around Saturday to salvage whatever they could, painstakingly clearing the tracks for trains to run again and life to move on.
