by Devjani Bodepudi | Jul 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Firstly, I would like to thank you for visiting this post. This is an important one. This post marks the beginning of a new story. I’m trying my hand at Magic Realism and telling the story of the Bengali Migration that happened in the 1960s, through the form of...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Sep 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
The man no longer remains,The one who planted the seed of doubt and deceitDeep into the soilSo ready and fertile,Of the minds of other menWho denied the crisis we have faced and lost.He is a ghost, like the colour green once was. But I am reborn, re-rooted, growing...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Apr 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Let me share a poem first and then I’ll share my thoughts. Perhaps the poem will make more sense then. Let me know your thoughts. How are you coping? The Virus Life is an inevitability inside my garden Just as death has become one on the outside. Like the...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Feb 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
So much has happened since my last proper blog post. It’s been a whirlwind of activity and now I am left exhausted but happy. The big news is that my book MIRRORS, published by Holland House Books is finally out! The print edition came out in January and the launch...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Dec 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
That night Suva’s limbs ached. She lay awake feeling her way through her body with her mind. She began at her toes and moved her way her up. There was no part of her that did not hurt as she moved them, but the ache in her heart was less. There, the pain was replaced...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Nov 21, 2019 | Motherhood, poetry, Uncategorized
You see me how, now? You see me put my clothes on, A tired ritual in the dark of an autumn morning. After children, after brushing my teeth, After waking from another life. The life where I was someone not as I am Known to you. I think back to when I was unknown to...
