# The Lonely Journey Begins

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**Author:** Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay
 **Pages:** 120 **Year of Publication:** 2014**
Price:** Rs 200 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-072-7 (9789350450727)

_**About the Author**_
 Emeritus Professor Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay started writing
poetry late in his life. He has published five collections of verse, all with **
Writers Workshop**, India, between 1983 and 2008. His other publications include
works of criticism, journal articles and translations (from Bengali to English).
At present, he works as a socio-analyst and an independent HR and OD consultant,
personal counsellor and executive coach. His interests include yoga, travelling 
and making walking sticks. After the passing of his wife in 2011, he divides his
time between Calcutta, Santiniketan and his sons’ houses.

_**Teaser**_

_A Meteoric Blue_

It was as if we had appeared in
 One another’s life out of the blue Like meteors
That keep defying the laws of science Built painstakingly over the centuries, If
not over millennia. Unlike the heavenly meteors meeting fiery ends When they come
together, At least I had a sense of great peace A sense of glimpsing the never-never
A sense of infinite choices Within an unexplored finiteness.

The dreamlike moments were like a Wordsworthian paradox
 In which the Yarrow remained
Unvisited within a guided tour of the valley Irrigated by the contained calm flow
of an Unfulfilled absurd promise of blissful here and now.

Perhaps that was all for the best
 In a world where the twain still Meet only on
either side of an apparent bottomless gorge Where they reach out and sometimes even
fingers touch fingers, And then each one moves out in a Different trajectory to 
be with the familiar That in reality is often as unfamiliar as the Most distant 
star at the other end of the Milky Way.

_Palm Grove, 2 Palm Place, Kolkata: February 18, 2009._

_**Contents**_
 62 poems