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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...
Nandini Sengupta
Jul 27, 20231 min read
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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...
Nandini Sengupta
Jun 24, 20231 min read
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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...
Nandini Sengupta
Jun 10, 20231 min read
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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...
Nandini Sengupta
Jun 5, 20233 min read
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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...
Nandini Sengupta
May 20, 20231 min read
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Diary Entry 6
Just 'D' Today 'dear' feels out of space. No reasoning whatsoever. Certain aspects of life always remain inexplicable. Trying to write...
Nandini Sengupta
Apr 12, 20232 min read
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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...
Nandini Sengupta
Jan 24, 20231 min read
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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...
Nandini Sengupta
Jan 6, 20233 min read
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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...
Nandini Sengupta
Dec 21, 20222 min read
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Mountain trails
Autumn dissolves into preachy winter...the fallen leaves have started accumulating themselves...Stunted feelings, residual talks, still...
Nandini Sengupta
Dec 3, 20222 min read
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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...
Nandini Sengupta
Sep 23, 20221 min read
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Waves
Let the waves surge the tides too shall move on with time, as strings of the sitar are pulled through, the images of reverie break apart;...
Nandini Sengupta
Aug 20, 20221 min read
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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...
Nandini Sengupta
Jul 5, 20221 min read
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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...
Nandini Sengupta
Jun 30, 20222 min read
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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...
Nandini Sengupta
Jun 18, 20222 min read
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Bubble
When everything seems meaningless and rubble, when you are floating in a bubble, consider you are in trouble. When the heart denies the...
Nandini Sengupta
Jun 10, 20221 min read
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A Date with Life
I embrace you with open arms in pain and laughter in joys and sorrows, as I falter in mapping the paths broad and narrow. With heavy...
Nandini Sengupta
Jun 9, 20221 min read
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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,...
Nandini Sengupta
May 24, 20221 min read
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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...
Nandini Sengupta
May 1, 20222 min read
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The swing
Tuli would go to the park in her neighborhood with her grandfather every evening. She had turned six last month. With light eyes and dark...
Nandini Sengupta
Apr 12, 20223 min read
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