In Search of a Baul Warbler: A Metaphor for Reflection

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.