Comments on: Urban Wilderness http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/ This is where I share all my intellectual cerebrations. These thoughts are, more often than not, about films, literature, art, aesthetics, music and - well - some shades of other pieces of my mind. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:21:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Bible Versus and Gardens » Urban Wilderness Evergreen Leaves …. http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-636 Bible Versus and Gardens » Urban Wilderness Evergreen Leaves …. Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:02:34 +0000 http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-636 [...] Dig deeper into the topic here [...] [...] Dig deeper into the topic here [...]

]]> By: sea of memories http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-624 sea of memories Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:07:53 +0000 http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-624 I know I know but i meant: where image??? Its just blue. <b>Reply:</b> I hope you like the new image. I couldn't adjust the raindrop picture to the required scale, so using this one. Thanks a bunch for the picture! :) - <i>ritwik</i> I know I know but i meant: where image??? Its just blue.

Reply: I hope you like the new image. I couldn’t adjust the raindrop picture to the required scale, so using this one. Thanks a bunch for the picture! :)

- ritwik

]]> By: sea of memories http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-622 sea of memories Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:47:06 +0000 http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-622 Header image?? Where?? No I don't absolutely hate this but its kind of bland... <b>Reply:</b> The top image on a page (the space where "evergreen leaves" is written). That's the header image. I need to think of a better image there . . . something that goes with the post themes. - <i>ritwik</i> Header image?? Where?? No I don’t absolutely hate this but its kind of bland…

Reply: The top image on a page (the space where “evergreen leaves” is written). That’s the header image. I need to think of a better image there . . . something that goes with the post themes.

- ritwik

]]> By: sea of memories http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-617 sea of memories Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:21:25 +0000 http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-617 Miss the original Evergreen layout. Was more "you" somehow...:) <b>Reply:</b> I really liked that layout. But I also wanted my own header image and stuff like that. That's why I switched to this one. I hope you don't absolutely hate this! :-) - <i>ritwik</i> Miss the original Evergreen layout. Was more “you” somehow… :)

Reply: I really liked that layout. But I also wanted my own header image and stuff like that. That’s why I switched to this one. I hope you don’t absolutely hate this! :-)

- ritwik

]]> By: Anuj Dasgupta http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-616 Anuj Dasgupta Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:13:54 +0000 http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-616 Hi, I will be honest here about what I felt while reading your last poem (please do forgive me if u find any of it a bit hurtful, am trying to be honest here)... the concept of the poem I liked but I didn't necessarily like the expression, as for the words didn't sound naturally placed beside each other, like carefully thought of & picked out to the extent that they loose out their "flow", so the reading kind of lost its rhythm .... i guess that's because you translated it from Bengali ... the main problem which I noticed is that each word was too heavy thus making the entire line sound overtly "poetic" (u know what I mean I guess)... when translating try to keep each word simple so that when the entire line is "rendered" under the assimilation of all the words, it gives a smooth yet subtle sense of the profoundity in it.... here I have to say that you may wanna refer to some of Neruda's poems (or even Shelly's) who explicate this simplicity of profoundity so eloquently, like Neruda would discover the most extraordinary perception in the most ordinary of all things, like eg. his poem "Ode to my Socks" or his many other sonnets.... regarding all this, I really like your "Perhaps Even Greed" poem and esp your "I cannot live with myself" from your other blog. Otherwise, I really like the way u think... kind of poetic without ever loosing any touch on reality, and your sense of logic is sharp... so am sure there's much to read from you that will delight me and at times disappoint me (as is the case with all good writer/thinkers). Anyway, don't mind my scathing criticism... after all, i hold u in high esteem bole ee naa eto crticise korlam.... as Nietzsche had once said, "I only attack victorious causes"... hehehe! Hi,
I will be honest here about what I felt while reading your last poem (please do forgive me if u find any of it a bit hurtful, am trying to be honest here)… the concept of the poem I liked but I didn’t necessarily like the expression, as for the words didn’t sound naturally placed beside each other, like carefully thought of & picked out to the extent that they loose out their “flow”, so the reading kind of lost its rhythm …. i guess that’s because you translated it from Bengali … the main problem which I noticed is that each word was too heavy thus making the entire line sound overtly “poetic” (u know what I mean I guess)… when translating try to keep each word simple so that when the entire line is “rendered” under the assimilation of all the words, it gives a smooth yet subtle sense of the profoundity in it…. here I have to say that you may wanna refer to some of Neruda’s poems (or even Shelly’s) who explicate this simplicity of profoundity so eloquently, like Neruda would discover the most extraordinary perception in the most ordinary of all things, like eg. his poem “Ode to my Socks” or his many other sonnets…. regarding all this, I really like your “Perhaps Even Greed” poem and esp your “I cannot live with myself” from your other blog.

Otherwise, I really like the way u think… kind of poetic without ever loosing any touch on reality, and your sense of logic is sharp… so am sure there’s much to read from you that will delight me and at times disappoint me (as is the case with all good writer/thinkers).

Anyway, don’t mind my scathing criticism… after all, i hold u in high esteem bole ee naa eto crticise korlam…. as Nietzsche had once said, “I only attack victorious causes”… hehehe!

]]> By: Ritwik Banerjee http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-615 Ritwik Banerjee Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:02:52 +0000 http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-615 @ Inam: I don't have a Bangla blog, I am afraid. Actually, till very recently, I did nit have a computer of my own . . . and I was unable to install Bangla fonts on the Linux machine in my office. That's why the lack of a Bangla blog. @ Sea of Memories: I have changed colours again . . . . do pay a visit and take a look around. :) @ Inam: I don’t have a Bangla blog, I am afraid. Actually, till very recently, I did nit have a computer of my own . . . and I was unable to install Bangla fonts on the Linux machine in my office. That’s why the lack of a Bangla blog.

@ Sea of Memories: I have changed colours again . . . . do pay a visit and take a look around. :)

]]> By: sea of memories http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-613 sea of memories Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:13:44 +0000 http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-613 Oh My! You're really "green"! Oh My! You’re really “green”!

]]> By: Inam http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-607 Inam Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:07:10 +0000 http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-607 The subtle movement of the imagery is something I liked a lot, almost like a gentle river. Do you have a Bangla blog where I could read the original version? The subtle movement of the imagery is something I liked a lot, almost like a gentle river. Do you have a Bangla blog where I could read the original version?

]]> By: Shreekumar Varma http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-605 Shreekumar Varma Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:11:38 +0000 http://arachnid.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/urban-wilderness/#comment-605 dear ritwik, good to know poetry still thrives in you. i've left a comment in your "mind" blog. <b>Reply</b>: I just read your comment on the other (now forgotten) blog. I am quite glad to know that you remember me! I will be mailing you shortly . . . . - <i>ritwik</i> dear ritwik, good to know poetry still thrives in you. i’ve left a comment in your “mind” blog.

Reply: I just read your comment on the other (now forgotten) blog. I am quite glad to know that you remember me! I will be mailing you shortly . . . .

- ritwik

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