Writing on the very last day of the year with nothing much to contribute from my side, but with a few lines from my favorite poet W.B. Yeats. This poem has been the one poem that has always been extremely dear to my heart. […]
Month: December 2022
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 !
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 […]
