This is a much awaited apology to both my readers as well as my blogger friends. I have been rather tardy with my blogging primarily due to the end-semester deluge of work. I have logged into the blog at times when unfortunately the system […]
Category: Personal
Return of the Prodigal Diarist
I have been rather negligent of this blog, though I have not been negligent of my writing. However, it is never too late to start afresh (as my husband keeps telling me during periods of crisis). Hereafter, I have decided to use this blog […]
An Alternate Universe
Writers, poets, dancers, singers, artists, mathematicians, physicists and anyone involved with anything creative and constructive generally tend to live in an alternate universe. We live everyday lives with some amount of difficulty. The daily stresses and strains tend to often act as a negative […]
The Beginning of a Fruitful Year
Precisely that is what I intend it to become. 2023 should be one of the most fruitful years of my life. With my first novel already knocking on the doors of various literary agents and hoping to find a break this year, I am […]
Au revoir 2022 et Bienvenue 2023
One of the best decisions I took this year was to start this blog. Incidentally, I have always been a diarist per se, be it on blogs or writing in diaries or scraps of paper. Documenting my thoughts has always been an essential part […]
In Memory of my Father
28.12.2011 Silence is still the scimitarThat carves moons out of our souls,While we languish eternally in memoriesOf roseate waves and yellow butterflies on the wing.We wait for life to promenade in hallowed calmAnd your footfalls to grace our wood smoked hearts,Someday is still far […]
The One Line Wonder !
Decided to activate my Facebook account temporally in order to convey my holiday greetings to near and dear ones (since most people never reply to my emails). I was thus confronted with the usual phenomenon of “the one line wonder” or rather the common […]
Joyeux Noël et une très bonne année…
Wishing all my readers Merry Christmas & a very happy new year from my husband and I…from the Bandyopadhyay-Chattopadhyay family 🙂 Happy Holidays folks !
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 […]