INDIAN SUMMER

There is an hour in April, sometime after two, when the lane empties out and the heat rises off the road in slow waves, and the house gives in to it - shutters half-down, the light turned the colour of turmeric on brass.

গ্রীষ্মের দুপুর : the summer afternoon, a pause we never were taught to schedule, it is simply how we have always lived. Slow.

গ্রীষ্মের দুপুর where a গঙ্গা ফড়িং (Dragonfly) drifts over still water, a বেলফুলের মালা (Bel flower garland) perfumes the air, and every ordinary ritual quietly becomes memory.