IN SEARCH OF A BAUL WARBLER

The principal object proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by common men. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity ,are less under restraint. It has been found by many that poetry can act as medicine. Dr Alak Pal's poetry does a better job in teaching because it is about embracing the human aspect of suffering, not just knowing how many lymph nodes are positive and where the pain is on a 1-to-10 scale. I know not, Dr. Alak Pal worked harder at being a poet or a physician but through his career trajectory so far, he excelled at both.

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