Leisurely Ramble

By Santosh Choudhury

I started writing with the idea to donate the receipts for poor students scholarships at universities. AuthorHouse published my first novel. In time I finished Leisurely Ramble and two other manuscripts for publication, and AuthorHouse is publishing those.

Poems are on many areasnature, humor, politics, life a to z, and readers will definitely find some interesting.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 4, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504976886

Santosh Choudhury

Dr. Choudhury has a PhD in finance from the Graduate School of Business (now Kellogg School) of Northwestern University. He has published several books in Finance, the latest being “The Life Insurance Corporation of India and Economic Development of India” and a chapter on public enterprises in the “Management of Public Enterprises in India,” edited by Dr. B. S. Bhatia et al. He has also published over seventy papers in leading journals, including a case study by the ICCH of Harvard University. He occasionally publishes articles on current political issues in the local newspaper, the “Virginian Pilot.” Currently, retired as a professor emeritus of Norfolk State University, he devotes all his time to writing novels and short stories.

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Published by AuthorHouse 02/04/2016

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Love is Joy

9/11 Martyrs

For World Peace

The World of Lovet

Trees are Generous

War is Vulgar

I Never Stopped Loving You

For Freedom and Free Spirit

Life is So Precious

A Special Day

I Believe in God

Terrorists are Devils

Don't Feel Depressed

Everyday is a Sunday

Pie in the American Sky

Before the Iraq War of 2003

Women are Like Roses

In Praise of Nature

You are My Sweetheart

Days of Our Lives - I

An October Evening

Holy Jolly Lady

She is My Love Forever

I am a Lazy Bum

My Cleaning Lady

Love is Everlasting

Take Time to Make Love

Jonny When You are Gone

When They Needed me Most

You Can Be Successful

It's Christmas Time - I

It's The Christmas Time --- II

My Two-Seater

Hi, Ms. Dee

It's Christmas Time -- III

The Election of 2000

Life is Full of Choices

Waste Not

When You are Sick

Eight Pigeons Under The Blue Sky

Columbia Disaster

Lunch at Candy's

Good Music

The Grace Of God

Hope Never Dies

The White Flakes of Snow

Life Goes On - I

For the Children

Beauty of the Beast

My Mind

Politicians

Are All Human Beings The Same

Author's Sorrow and Joy

Friends Are Real Friends

Mercy of God

Mother's Job is Never Done

Life Goes On -Ii

When You are Alone

The Joy of Life

When You are Sick

Doctors are Blamed

Terrorists

The Morning was Gray

Waiting for the Green

The Peeping Sun

Randy's at Hester Road

Nacho Bell

Life is Full of Stress

Barby's Restaurant on Regent Road

Slave of the Clock

The Life of a Napkin

Tim and Josh

When a Fast-Food Place is Slow

Mothers are the Greatest Gift of God

Scoter's Restaurant

Randy and His Friends

Honor Killing

Dallas Fort Worth Airport

Waiting for Dr. Siemens

My Friend's Son

When I was a Boy

My Friend's Home

Volkswagen at Sweetbriar

Miss Esquire of Joseph's Ford

John's Brother

On the Indian Epic of Ramayana

Cooking

Our Homes are Like Factories

Cutting Edge Medicines

My Family Doctor

The City of Virginia Beach

2004's Vegetable Garden

Happiness is a State of Mind

The Old and New Telephones

When Overweight

My Favorite Songs

Buying a New Car -- I

Buying a New Car - II

Buying a New Car - II

A Storm has No Norm

A Storm is Merciless

No Clock in Patients' Waiting Rooms

Buying a New Car -- III

The Twins and My Lawn Care

Frank

We, The People Love Democracy

Roofer Cal

Buying a New Car -- Iv

Miss Dee's Restaurant

Mr. Jay Spalding

Mr. Jason Williams

My New Hyundai

Time Flies

Happy Birthday

Some Days You Feel Tall

Slow Food Place

An International Gathering

Saturday Morning Rain

My Darling Volkswagen

When a Friend Fails to Honor

When Your Computer Doesn't Work Right

When One's Mind is Vacant

When Your Party Does Not Win

Obesity and Food

When You Watch a Game in Tv

When You are Retired

Human Life

Modern Technological Developments

My Dentist - I

Tsunami of December 26, 2004

Life is Still Uncertain

Some Cultures Believe

Time

An Ideal Leader

In The Land of Plenty

Its Tax Season

Life is a Journey

The Morning was Bright

He Created Us All

Nature

Automobile Accident

Lesly, The Manager

Teresa

Poppy's

The Storyteller

Writers Write

Summer

Tiffany

Fast Food Joint

New Generation

All Employees are Aces

The Top of Our Skin

Romance

Life

Two Little Children

Road Rage

Medical Center at Gleen View

Both are Twins

Violence

Katrina

TV Commercials

Labor Day Sale

When Seventeen

The Stars Looked Bright

Bonnie

Weak Leader

WA Flight: DC -- London

WA Flight: London --Kolkata

Daily Life in Calcutta -- I

Daily Life in Calcutta -- II

Dewali in Calcutta

Hotel Midland

Children are Like Gods

Daughter's Marriage

When Days are Cold

When One Lives Alone

Fish at Silver's

Choice of Food

Life is Short

S&K's Seamless Gutter

Fast Food Place

Republican Rule

We are Organized

Cars and Cars

My Bathroom

The Wind was Blowing

Days of Our Lives - II

In This World

Rows of Pine Trees

Candice

Ingrid Grossman

Mother Nature

A Shot

The World Goes On

A Good Worker

Some Days Everything Works Well

Books and Books Everywhere

If You Get

When We Smile

We are Human

Insensitive Managers

Our Old Traditions

Act Now

Life is a Struggle

Office Visit

A Red Car

Misery and Happines

Magic Kingdom

When Gas Prices are High

Brothers and Sisters

Country in Distress

Our Food

If One is Single

Poems

New Taxes

Misunderstanding

When Someone is Rude

Life's Few Pleasures

World Cup Soccer

Unceasing Rain

We Must Die One Day

Beth and Shawn's Block Party

My Dentist - II

Life of Singles

God's Blessing

Life Would Be Different

Nature is Bountiful

If You are Sensitive

Habitual Liar

My Dentist -- Ii

Cataract Surgery

Weather is Hot

When Days are Hectic

When You Don't Sleep Well

Love Has Many Splendors

Back Pain

God's Creations

Iraqi War Casualties

Nor'easter

Magic Kingdom

War and Civilization

Struggling Relationship

Cheryl, The Manager

If You Are a Dreamer

2006 Midterm Election

When a Man Sees a Woman

View from a Second Floor Window

Tight Jeans

Thanksgiving Day

Bills

Rain, Rain, Rain

Gobbling Food

Life's Routine

Mother Nature

God Gave Life and Good Living

Life of Fast Pace

Saddam Hossian's Hanging

Globalization

My Mother

My Brothers

Jeans

Traffic is Horrendous

Life's Path

At Willard's

Contentment

Tooth Ache

The World of Knowledge

Obesity

Driving

People

Stupidocracy -- A Joke

MRI-CT

Virginia Tech Massacre - I

Virginia Tech Massacre -- II

Tear and Fear Virginia Tech Massacre -- III

Capitalism

SUVs

An Avid Reader

Candidate Crowd

Sunday Crowd

Two Pairs

New Trends

A Day Without Electricity

To My Love

The USA

Life is Varied

Students Fear

Miracles Happen

Highways are Pitiful

July 2007, Traffic Laws

Sherry

Minneapolis Bridge Disaster

Opportunity Knocks Only Once

Men and Women Love Each Other

Smart People

Our Health Care

Our Hollywood

August 2007

Thunderstorm

Meena

We Must Eat

Someone Looked Familiar

Chance

Reflections

Life of a Soldier

Honesty

Good Old Days

Small Birds on Traffic Lights

Tears of Joy

Threats to Democracy

Faith

My Boyhood

We Reap What We Sow

On the Word 'Love'

I Am Not Crazy

2008 Presidential Candidates

Revenge

Appreciation

Our Country is Losing Ground

Drizzling Day

Waiting for Someone

The Young and the Old

Bad Karma - I

Police Car

Bad Karma -- II

Our Food and Health

Save the Earth

Gas Prices and Our Economy

Life Begins

Smoke-Colored Clouds

Clouds

Lunchtime

Presidential Campaign -- 2008

Summer of 2008

2008 Olympics

Mother of Twins

Russia and Georgia

John Hughes

Dusk in the Atlantic Ocean

Machines

Dr. Ignacio Nipoll

America the Beautiful

Terror from Neighbor

The Union

Dr. Alan Rees

Life is Mysterious

Helath Nuts

Disgrace

Pouring Rain

Two Young Girls

Hunter

Mr.penn

Smile

Stealing and Recession

Uncommon

Governments Need Cooperation

Carmakers' Miscalculations

Fast Paced Life

Truth and Virtue

My World of If(S)

Nuclear Politics

Earthquake in Haiti

Time

Three Punches

Dishonest Businesses

Prayer

Tax Return

Morning Shows The Day

Marriage

Bp's Oil Spill

Root Canal

Irs and Tax Audit

We Are ...

Old Age

Financial Disaster

Plutocracy

Drug Prices and Commercials

Negligible Inflation

Employees of City Tax Department

In Love

2010 Midterm Election

Cutting Corners

John Borgan

Cheap Imports

Cash Cow

Dr. Nipoll & Staff

In Memory

Quake in Japan, March 11, 2011

Wish List

Democrary and Capitalism

Summer

Sweat and Sacrifice

Today is a New Day

Rain Pattering

Nature's Wrath -- Irene

Life's Path is Uncertain

Love is Dear

India Fest

India

Fast Food

Our Deceptive World

Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street

Time

Fall Colors

Blind Rage

Golden Days of Yore

Misha

Romance and Love

Clouded Mind

Syrian Massacre

Hapless Romantic

Love -- Men & Women

Destiny

Season's Change

Caution

Give -- Don't Look Back

2012 Presidential Election Campaign

Advantage Business

Mr Wagner

Auto Accidents

Fragile Economy

Sandy, The Frankenstorm

India's Fragile Democracy

Gaza's War

Death, Devastation, and Disaster at Sandy Hook

Nuclear Iran

New Delhi Rape

Bic Lighters

Gun Violence

Governments Need Cooperation

Boston Marathon Bombing

China is Bullying

Trio of Scandals

World Politics

Leaking National Secrets

Lunch

Mrs. Jiles

Global Warming

Clever Crows

Syrian Tregedy

Victims of Violence

Watered Down Mystery Shows

Marriage is Unique

China's Defense Zone

Tech Inventions - Blessings or Banes

Indispensble Umbrellas

Constant Anger

Polar Vortex

Mislabelled Food

Dominance Policy

Tax Return Nightmare

Peace & Progress

Our Health Care Laws

Nature's Routine

Modi's Triumph

Loss of Time

State Sponsored Terrorism

Public's Plight

Controlling Power

ISIS-I

ISIS The Embodiment of Evil

ISIS -- II

US Health Care

Spoken Words are Sharper than Sword

Modern Democracies

Iran and the Bomb

Aging

Taxes or Fees

Eyes See, Brain Stores

Lawless West Bengal

Iran Deal

Barbaric Brutality

INTRODUCTION

I started writing with the idea to donate the receipts for poor students' scholarships at Universities. Author House published my first novel. In time I finished leisurely ramble and 2 other manuscripts for publication and Author House is publishing those.

Poems are on many areas -- nature, humor, politics, life, - a to z and readers will definitely find some interesting.

Thanks to Author House and Mr. B Dow.

Santosh Choudhury

LOVE IS JOY

Love is crazy.

It makes one laugh

It makes one cry

It makes one high

One has everything in love.

One has nothing without it.

It's a wonderful feeling.

A magic healing,

Genuine love gets response.

Love is blind.

Does not look back or ahead;

Or care to find right or wrong.

It's meeting of two souls.

Typed December 8, 1991

©Santosh Choudhury

November 22, 2001

7.20 PM

9/11 MARTYRS

Brothers, sisters,

Mothers, fathers,

Grandfathers, Grandmothers

Sons and Daughters

Of the Almighty,

You are not gone.

You're in our hearts forever.

We are sad, sorry, shocked.

You'll be cherished forever.

Typed January 11, 2002

©Santosh Choudhury

November 30, 2001

8.35PM

FOR WORLD PEACE

Oh Lord,

Bless my homeland forever.

Give us Peace and joy.

Give us your blessings forever.

Oh Lord,

Give us courage, strength,

We share our bounty of peace.

Typed November 30, 2001

©Santosh Choudhury

April 27, 2002

10:08 PM

THE WORLD OF LOVET

Love as fresh as flower,

As pure as rain shower,

As comforting as summer's breeze,

As free as a bird,

As peaceful as a dove -

Everybody cares & shares;

No pain, or sorrow,

No rage, hate, or violence

But peace and harmony for all -

Love for all animals and plants.

And love for God and law.

A world of no fear,

No jealousy, greed or hunger,

Disease, sickness,

Only love and joy

For living beings and God --

©Santosh Choudhury

Typed May 2, 2002

April 28, 2002

8:34 AM (Nature)

TREES ARE GENEROUS

A tree is a tree.

Just a tree; wrong!

We look at it, enjoy it.

We are often awed by it