Anthology of Faith

By Sayantan Datta and Mansi Khare

The Anthology of faith is a compilation of expressions that were written in a particularly tumultuous phase of our recent history where the author’s beliefs and values are continuously tested by events and philosophies that drove polarization across the society. Deeply disturbed and affected by the continuous running down of the common man by the machinery that uses the common man’s faith and vulnerabilities to drive an agenda of power and prosperity of the few, the author, through the verses in the compilation, uses allegory, allusions and symbolism to describe his struggles in the intersection of warring values and beliefs. In the verses we see explorations of sacrifice, duty, love, loss, discovery, helplessness, death and collective social apathy. The books starts through an introduction in verse where the author talks about being inspired by the ordinary, traverses through a web of complex, and often layered emotions, ending with the short, and random thoughts that are not quite in harmony with the emotions that have been captured in the compilation

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Mar 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781543707557

Sayantan Datta

Born in Kolkata, Sayantan Datta grew up influenced by a diverse cultural landscape, abundantly spotted by influences of Tagore, and layered with Western influences. He started writing early in a wide variety of publications. Verse became a dominant form of expression, parallel to an education in Engineering & Management and a career in Business Consulting. His inspirations draw from the conflict of values, faith & politics, and a commoners struggle through it, in the intersection.

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CONTENTS

My Poetry

A Mile Away

The Letter Of My Faith

Where Are You

Let You Be You, Let Me Be Me

I Found A Book Of Paintings

God, Who Be Worth My Faith

I Am Sorry

The Battles We Won And Lost To You

The Worst Of It All

Ponder The Road To Tomorrow

Free At Long Last

Light Up The Sky

Then There Is Black

Locked In

By You

And Now…

The Treasure Lost

Here

So Many

All Gone

And

Anything Goes

Unreal

Without Pain

I Have Always Only Seen A Flower

Anthology Of Faith

To A Lonely End

It

Forgotten And Buried

Here Now, And Gone

She

If

You Asked Me How I Am

I Will Never Say

Brush Strokes

[I]

[II]

[III]

[IV]

[V]

[VI]

[VII]

[VIII]

MY POETRY

I write of blue, red and green, sometimes of yellow and grey,

Sometimes I write of fields and mountains, and sometimes dried rivers, instead.

Some days I write of battles and wars, other days, of the duels of my mind,

All shades, and hues, and corners and caves, you will find in the rhymes I penned.

A while back, inspired by a man in a coat, walking down the road by my window pane,

I wrote of a journey of no end or