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Art: Spring # Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge No.335

I did this painting a few days and I wasn’t sure what to name it. So, I shared it on Instagram and somebody suggested, I name it ‘Spring time’. So, ‘Spring’ it is. The above is a photograph of the painting I took at night with the tubelight on. The below is a picture of […]

Wordless Wednesdays 30.08.23: Rakshabandhan

Rakshabandan, is a Hindu festival that celebrates the bond between brothers and sisters. A brother vows to be there for his sister and to protect her through thick and thin. For me, this festival is about celebrating siblings being there for each other through good times and bad. And while I wholeheartedly agree with Linda […]

Book Review: Symphony of Love by Princess Lubna

There couldn’t be a better name for a book on romantic poetry than ‘Symphony of Love’. The red and peach roses, symbolic of love, on the book cover make the book a perfect gift for Valentine’s day or any day that you wish to proclaim your love to a loved one. I received it from […]

#Tanka Tuesday Seasonal Kigo : August in Dhaka

Colleen says, ”This week’s challenge is a taste of what our new challenge will be like starting September 26th, when we start our 8th year of Tanka Tuesday. We will explore the 24 Seasons of the Japanese Year and apply it to where we live. My goal is to create our own Saijiki (Kigo word […]

Nominated for Publication of the Month

My poem ‘Newspapers- The Great Tragedy’ which I had shared with you earlier during the week has been nominated for Publication of the month of August. You can read the poem here- https://spillwords.com/newspapers-the... I woke up this morning to this exciting message from SpillWords Press. Dear writers, We are thrilled to extend our heartfelt congratulations […]

Book Review: ‘Ever So Gently’ by Lauren Scott

I have longed to read this book of poems ever since I saw the cover and the name of the book but mostly because I had read ‘More than Coffee’ by Lauren Scott and loved it . I was surprised to learn that the cover of this book which is a beautiful shade of blue-green […]

Norway Diaries 8 : Three days and nights in Flam and Thursday Doors 24.08.23

Day 1 Flam is a village in S.W Norway best known for its fjords. Most tourists spend a day in Flam, taking a trip on the Flam railway and the boat cruise. So, when we told those who’d been to Norway that we were spending 3 nights there, they looked us as though we were […]

Thankful Thursday 24.08.23: India creates history

I am thankful that I am born in a country where women can dream to reach the moon . Yesterday, at 6.04 p.m. IST, India made history by making a soft landing on the south pole of the moon and became the first country in the world to do so. Watching women scientists of ISRO, […]

Art: Norway Fjords

It’s been ages since I painted. Two months to be precise. Because unlike writing or reading where I can simply pick up where I have left when I have some time in between other activities that require my attention, in the case of art I need to actually make time for it. Getting things ready […]

Tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-333-8-15-23/- Sunflowers- the memories the bring.

I’m taking part in Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday Challenge -333-8-15-23/. This week’s prompt is ‘Sunflowers’. Inspired by Selma’s stunning poetry collection, In the Shadow of Rainbows, I decided to try out something new. Created by Andrea Dietrich writing on PoetrySoup in Feb, 2015, the rules to write a Andaree are- Is it your upward-turning face, open […]