In a life hereafter
I will meet you in a life hereafter in a different land away from this chaos where all barriers will cease to exist where all your lies...
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Metaphors of life
By Nandini Sengupta
Poet and Writer
'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
- Aug 3
- 1 min
The night sky tales
Of kings and dragon tales, Of mysteries and fables in place, Of lobsters and fishmonger, The night sky deals in all. Have you ever gazed...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jul 27
- 1 min
To cook or not to cook
The grand perils of cooking the steaming hot khichdi in the making: to stir and when to stir the eternal dilemma while tasting. The...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jun 24
- 1 min
For Him, with Love
'Sweetheart' A name you would often call me by... Today I celebrate our love. In the aroma of flowers, you gifted me that day, I still...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jun 10
- 1 min
A letter for Him
An excerpt from a letter written for her love with love: The moment you smeared me with your colors of love, I was no more me. As your...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jun 5
- 3 min
The gypsy and the tree
The human forms were not visible clearly as the sandstorm blew its part over the rolling desert land. It was a tiny village set in the...
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Nandini Sengupta
- May 20
- 1 min
Beloved
That night has arrived, after a prolonged and agonizing wait: he would embrace her in his arms while her bangles would make a jingling...
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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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