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Metaphors of life
By Nandini Sengupta
'Writing is the painting of the voice' - Voltaire
I write to inspire, think and dream. My works are a reflection of my way of perceiving the world in its varied nuances.
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Nandini Sengupta
- Apr 12
- 2 min
Diary Entry 6
Just 'D' Today 'dear' feels out of space. No reasoning whatsoever. Certain aspects of life always remain inexplicable. Trying to write...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jan 24
- 1 min
The Door
Escaping through the traverse of the ever flourishing mustard field, her tired soles no more feel the rough texture of the rolling dry...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jan 6
- 3 min
Monkey on the go...
Peeping through the glass door six year old Amu could see the infant monkey nibbling an apple with an unwavering gaze on the object of...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Dec 21, 2022
- 2 min
On languages- mirror to the soul
At once understood and misunderstood-- the words once let out of the box, assimilates into the universe- can work wonders and also cause...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Dec 3, 2022
- 2 min
Mountain trails
Autumn dissolves into preachy winter...the fallen leaves have started accumulating themselves...Stunted feelings, residual talks, still...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Sep 23, 2022
- 1 min
Of Autumn journals
The leaves fall in abandon in total mirth and subjugation, colliding with the topography of the uneven earth; for it knows within, it...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jul 5, 2022
- 1 min
For hundred years
I will not sleep for hundred years for the raging soul aspires to be poetry of your endless nights a dreamer of your dreams. I will not...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jun 30, 2022
- 2 min
Diary Entry 5
Dear D, For a long time, I couldn't open your pages, lest I fill them with unpleasant memories. I want your pages to be filled with hope...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jun 18, 2022
- 2 min
Why do I write?
"I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways" ---Rumi I never knew I would write. But ever since I remember, I have...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
Bubble
When everything seems meaningless and rubble, when you are floating in a bubble, consider you are in trouble. When the heart denies the...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jun 9, 2022
- 1 min
A Date with Life
I embrace you in open arms in pain and in laughter in joys and sorrows, as I falter mapping the paths broad and narrow. With heavy feet,...
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Nandini Sengupta
- May 24, 2022
- 1 min
A Poem
Words convulse emotions digress, we are at loss, as how far to progress-- at times it feels like stopping here at times meandering ways,...
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Nandini Sengupta
- May 1, 2022
- 2 min
The Bull's eye
I often stare at the painting of the bull in my living room. Such intricate work, such finesse, and the amount of patience that went into...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Apr 1, 2022
- 1 min
Breaking Free
Let me break the rules for a day Let me run in a slow motion like that in a movie Let me fly in a parachute on one rainy day Let me slide...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Mar 12, 2022
- 3 min
All for a ride(Part-4)
It was the month of March, almost three years back. The pandemic had not yet created havoc in the otherwise placid life of the people. My...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Feb 22, 2022
- 3 min
Diary Entry-4
My loving D, You are the repertoire of all my thoughts and delicately captured moments of my ever-growing life. As I sit down to write,...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Feb 19, 2022
- 1 min
Offering
The one string of Ektara the Baul plays in reverence, with his index finger in place: the strain of his devotion reaching miles and...
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