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  • Photo of my uncle Aveek Sen, a middle-aged Bengali man, bald, with glasses, leaning over a windowsill and looking out to daylight, silhouetted, curtains billowing beside him, one hand under his chin, pensive.
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    For Aveek

    The first time Noton, as I called Aveek, appeared in my dreams after his death, he was sitting at...

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  • Julie Andrews in Sound of Music, standing on a grassy hill with her arms spread, a look of ecstasy on her face, snowy mountains looming into mist behind her.
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    Wrong Concerto, by Aveek Sen

    A short piece titled ‘Wrong Concerto’ by my uncle and dear friend Aveek Sen, who died earlier this month....

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    On Stephen King

    My earliest appreciation of language, prose, the beauty of a string of words elegantly woven into a story, came...

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    A few words for my grandfather

    2016 started with firecrackers raining fire on my head (really, they malfunctioned and went off not too far from...

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