Zero After Nine

By Kaushik Banerjee

Zero after Nine is not just a collection of random poems, It is a repertoire of myriad facets of our lives ,our emotions and our worldly beings. The Poet Kaushik Banerjee was a class fellow during our Ravenshaw days .He was known for his doggerel even then. It is a delight to notice that the sporadic libretto from his pen have finally blossomed into this beautiful anthology of poems.
The abilities required of a good poet are that of Observation and Description .The leading emotion which underlines this collection is that of melancholy sometimes craftfully masked in nostalgia ,sometimes in desolation and desire and at times in a sense of dj vu. Whether it is Zero After Nine,Years Before and Ordeal the reader is left with a desire to peep a little more,to long a little longer and to wallow more than awhile.
While devouring Kaushiks verse a thought which stands out distinctly is the ability of the poetic narration to follow a meticulous observation of things otherwise mundane .The poems like Two Puffs and a Cup and Two Gods One Saturday makes you feel as if you were right there amidst the scene of the poem. In poems such as The Known Tale the poet has also gives wings to his articulate fantasy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Feb 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482845563

Kaushik Banerjee

As a childhood friend, Kaushik has always been someone who would sit by the river and stare into it! With intensity we never tried to understand or question. We were always more interested in jumping into it and feel the limited freedom. Those sudden 4 am phone calls! Ruminating about life, were always accepted and expected from him. A seemingly normal situation, could easily transform into an explosion of fantasy, when he was around. We together used to whisk people into fascinating stories. Unconstrained in his thoughts, he viewed the world in a way alien to the rest of us. Sitting for hours by the railway station, he would weave adventures out of mundane lives. This is what I believe he is born to do.. Amit Patnaik

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Contents

PREFACE

1 In the look out

2 Zero After Nine

3 Wake up

4 A state of mind

5 Lost

6 Silence

7 The known tale

8 It’s Ok

9 Tremors

10 Lost in war

11 Ordeal

12 Why forms change

13 Thoughts of halcyon

14 Sleeping giant

15 Years before

16 Eradicated Conscience

17 Prayers

18 Notions

19 Falling

20 Tell tales

21 When you were home

22 Can’t talk about

23 Venom within

24 Torn apart

25 In rhythms and beats

26 Condolence

27 Little winter

28 The sun

29 Waiting!

30 The naming is your’s

31 From yonder to yonder

32 Solecism

33 Hallucinations

34 The other way

35 A candle a gift

36 Who’s waiting?

37 Whistling your tune

38 Despair

39 Rhapsody

40 A last friend

41 The Sister Speaks

42 A dying soul

43 Dislike

44 Realizations

45 Bygones

46 Two puffs and a cup

47 Two gods one Saturday

48 Obscure

49 The beginning

50 Memories and expectations

51 Married for few years

52 Philanthropy

53 People Alone

Dedicated to

Sanchita Mustauphy – For almost the last eight years she has been the one who has really made me feel ‘Life loves to be