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Owning my Happy Birthday | barely here nor there
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July 10, 2015. Owning my Happy Birthday. Since that Misty Morning, not much has happened really. The world of pets in Kolkata is a quiet one. Dogs must be kept on a leash and we must walk them away from civilization. At least for the most part. With regards to the rest of my life, well I seem to be edging ever closer to mortality. A dull, colourless mortality where I have done nothing much and probably never will. What was being done for me? Well, from the moment we landed in Hyderabad (my husband though...
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The Good Wife | barely here nor there
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April 2, 2015. My short story featured in Kindle Magazine. It’s been such a long time since I posted any fiction, I thought that I really should do something to rectify it. Have a read of my story of ‘The Good Wife’ featured in Kindle Magazine. The link is below. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Too much, much too much! Was away, but hopefully back. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). July 24, 2016.
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Misty Mornings | barely here nor there
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June 22, 2015. Deep breath Ah, well! Now we have Misty. Misty was a whim, once again. But this time I was determined to do it properly. No strays, no cats, as they can jump out of balconies and no disagreements. If we were going to welcome another animal into the home, my husband would have to agree on it. And he did. Reluctantly, I must admit, but he did! I was at a meeting during that morning, for women with International passports, residing in Calcutta, but my mind was elsewhere. I was watching th...
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Owning my Happy Birthday | barely here nor there
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July 10, 2015. Owning my Happy Birthday. Since that Misty Morning, not much has happened really. The world of pets in Kolkata is a quiet one. Dogs must be kept on a leash and we must walk them away from civilization. At least for the most part. With regards to the rest of my life, well I seem to be edging ever closer to mortality. A dull, colourless mortality where I have done nothing much and probably never will. What was being done for me? Well, from the moment we landed in Hyderabad (my husband though...
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Memories of England | barely here nor there
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June 2, 2014. We’re back in Kolkata now. It’s wonderful to be home, but memories of a lovely time remain. Life is a little simpler in my mother’s house, although a little cramped. It’s a house full of love and affection and emotions that spill out at every opportunity. It’s where I learned to love cricket and how to chop onions. It’s where I tantrum regularly, just because I can and it’s where I know I will always have a place in the retelling of the stories from long ago. And tagged Canada Geese. There&...
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The mountains and what they mean… | barely here nor there
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January 6, 2015. The mountains and what they mean…. Have you ever been to Sikkim, in December? What a beautiful place! Beautiful, amazing, wonderful, awe-inspiring. These are words which keep popping into my mind when I think about Gangtok and Lachung. Day 1: The journey from Bagdogra to Gangtok- The roads were long and hard. They wound their way around the mountains like an endless rope, tying humanity to the divine. Everywhere we went we saw coloured flags blowing in the wind. “What are they? Day 3 was...
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Was away, but hopefully back | barely here nor there
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June 4, 2015. Was away, but hopefully back. Working and writing don’t ideally go together. Writing for a magazine seems to be the best possible solution. I’m doing just that. I’ve missed blogging, and my little space I’ve created just for me and I feel I should get back to it. Not entirely lost.more dissolved. I have dissolved into the world which I was once so distinctly separate from. Perhaps I should point out why I’m writing today. Today, I’m in a private hospital, in one of the older...You are comme...
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BarelyHereNorThere | barely here nor there
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October 25, 2016. Above is an illustration for a poem I wrote called Stagnation. The artist who created this beauty did so most generously and I feel that this is a gift. I am most grateful. Goncalo is a genius. Please visit his blog, Alienato. October 25, 2016. What have I become? Because of the early starts, I would go to bed early too, between 9 and 10pm, and this impacted on my time with my husband because after dinner we didn’t sit and chat about our days or life or plans, or even watch TV together&...
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Too much, much too much! | barely here nor there
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February 17, 2015. Too much, much too much! Perhaps hate is too strong a word. My father taught me to question everything and my mother taught to me to follow rituals blindly every Thursday in name of the Goddess Laxmi. I grew up with a begrudging respect for the quietude and solace faith can offer. However, I still ask, why is there a need to shout one’s faith from the rooftops, alleyways, temples, backyards and street corners? Why the singing and the drumming late into the night? February 18, 2015 at 9...
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The Quality of a Raindrop | barely here nor there
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July 31, 2013. The Quality of a Raindrop. We were on our way to look at some furniture for my father-in-law’s newly built house. That’s normally an activity that I would love; potentially spending large amounts of money on large, pretty but functional objects. But the wind and the rain just got to me. The traffic was tragic and we didn’t buy anything! Maybe that was the root cause of my melancholy; it was a wasted afternoon! Leave in December so the weather. The earth becomes fresher, women rush out of t...
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