Today I read the list of prompts on the thefrangipanicreative.com. I was struck by the coincidence of two things. One, it’s Women’s Day on the 8th of March and two, it’s World Poetry Day on the 21st of March. When I published my first book of poems, “Who Shall I Be Today”, on the 8th…
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My Purple Planner
Ever since I can remember, I have loved diaries, planners, folders. If I am left in a stationery shop, you will most probably find me wandering around with glazed eyes, in an intoxicated daze. Every year I search out planners that I can use. Once I was introduced to the world of bloggers and You…
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Sundays in Thane in the 1960s
I have been born and brought up in Thane. Though today it is a bustling metropolis, fifty odd years ago it was a small cluster of villages and everyone knew everyone. I loved the fact that hens and ducks and pigs roamed the streets and that you could hear the church bell peal in the…
Read morePutting others in our boxes
Today as I walked from the library where I conduct my creative writing classes to the auto rickshaw stand, I saw an old couple and a younger woman talking on the footpath. Judging by their body language they were either neighbours or close acquaintances; not family though. That kind of closeness was missing. They were…
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