by Devjani Bodepudi | Oct 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
And I thought I hated Halloween. Thanks for sharing your experiences and thoughts. Am rebloggling.
by Devjani Bodepudi | Oct 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Orange Don’t you just hate Halloween? I am the Scrooge of All Hallow’s Eve or whatever the f*#£ they decide to call it. This Americanised, bastardised evil which is upon us means nothing to me except, of course, entitled children demanding sugary treats,...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Oct 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
I was talking to a colleague at the end of the last academic year, before I began my experiment of coming back to teaching full time, about the importance of work-life balance. I mentioned that what I had learnt in India had changed me fundamentally, as a person, that...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Jul 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
The legend of the Broom Tree is featured in the Tale of Genji, a Japanese epic of sorts, famed for being the first modern novel ever written, and by a woman, no less, called Murasaki Shikibu in the… Source: Kytö and the Broom Tree
by Devjani Bodepudi | Jul 23, 2016 | Uncategorized, writing
There is something strange, eerie about having started a book. I have begun a story and Suva and Kytö are right in the middle of things, but I’ve left them in their worlds, frozen. I wonder if they continue without me or if they’re waiting. I imagine they’re waiting...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Jun 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
The night we arrived, we were too tired to think about what we had done. We were too relieved to worry about the cold. We collapsed into our beds in my mother’s house and slept as if we had truly been laid to rest. Then, at 4am, the sun started to rise and our eyes...