Dear Readers, It’s been a long time! Kolkata has been drenched ever since we landed here more than a month ago. Setting up the house all over again is an uphill task. It’s building again—friendships, garden, walking routes, favourite grocery shop and a reliable house help. Also, some precious things that break in transit. It’s …
Abundance
Dear Readers, It’s been a long absence from the blog. I relocated, lock, stock, and barrel, and it’s always challenging. Moving, whether to a new city or country, is hard because of the emotional burden we carry—the people we leave behind, moments, a nook that’s held us on our loneliest days and the roads we’ve …
BOOMER EFFECT
Dear Readers, Suddenly, the world feels like a mishmash. Every time I blink my eyes, something new pops up—a massive influx of people going about their lives, a nearly invisible indifference to everything until it wriggles its way up our bones. Most times a few tut-tuts are enough to move on. Then there’s also the …
Virtual Velocity
Dear Readers, Thank you for the heartfelt response to the previous newsletter. We are in a much better space and hope good sense can prevail. In all this what worries me most is the collective euphoria that surrounds a catastrophe. While I try to figure out the why of it all, I'd like to confess …
An (Un)Ordinary Day
Dear Readers, As a war unfolds where I live, every ordinary day becomes unordinary. Some random thoughts to make sense of today. I squeeze a lemon in lukewarm water and settle on my balcony. Sunrise is the time for the collective chirping of bulbuls on the khejri, neem and palash, standing obediently on the opposite …
The Ghosts of My Town
Dear Readers Another NaPoWriMo, another poetry craze! I'm enjoying the poems and prompts, but saving them for later. When it comes to poetry, Instagram is my favourite place. Some poets have been graciously sharing their creative process and that is inspiring. Recently, I also attended a poetry workshop by Rochelle Potkar. It was supposed to …
A Hundred Quills 