Wishing all my readers Merry Christmas & a very happy new year from my husband and I…from the Bandyopadhyay-Chattopadhyay family 🙂 Happy Holidays folks !
Author: Lopamudra Kalipada Bandyopadhyay-Chattopadhyay
Caught Between Woolf & Yeats
I was browsing through a selection of Yeats’ poems (he happens to be my favorite poet of all times), when among many poems familiar and known a rather unfamiliar one caught my eye. Frankly speaking all his poems tend to enthrall and reader and […]
Old Posts from an Old Blog
Sharing a couple of posts from an old blog that was secretly hidden somewhere in this big virtual world. Managed to resurrect it from the ashes of the obscure and the decadent. These are disjointed writings. They are neither poems nor prose, but rather […]
On Writing & Being Myself
Once upon a time when I was still ruminating upon the fact as to what genre of fiction I should delve into, many suggestions were offered to me by near and dear ones. Some advised me to try my hand at horror, others believed […]
Monologues & Peace
Deleted an erstwhile post on Bobby Darin and his famous song “18 Yellow Roses” because it verged upon things too personal. And I am not here to discuss anything personal except for that which I consider to be an ode to peace. As mentioned […]
Vivaldi & Democratic Opinion
It was quite a pleasant feeling to see my article on “Is Social Media for Writers?” featured on Vivaldi’s choice of featured blog posts. The pleasant feeling was soon converted into surprise when I further noticed that both snapshots of my post and Vivaldi’s […]
An Ode To Peace
An Ode to Peace seemed like an appropriate tagline for my blog. I usually write about peace. Violence seldom features in my writings. If it does at all feature, then it is simply there to highlight the effervescent and ever elusive nature of peace. […]
The Importance of Being Original
Picked up “Waves” by Virginia Woolf from the library at work today. She has always been a favorite writer. Maybe because her voice is extremely original. The first time I read “Mrs. Dalloway” or “Orlando” I was rather taken aback by her strong voice, […]
Becoming Calm…
Calmness wasn’t really a choice in the days of yore. It came naturally, like the change of seasons or like the waxing and waning of the moon. Slowly with modern life tumbling in and completely eclipsing the ancient one, we have to now “choose” […]
Is Social Media for Writers?
Out of curiosity I decided to give Mastodon a look (although I did not log in per se or create an account for that matter). The Vivaldi Social site allows onlookers to peek into their system without creating an ID or logging into it. […]