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...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Mar 11, 2018 | Motherhood
Happy Mother’s Day. To Ma, I know you now, like I’ve never known you before. I am you. Your insecurities, your strengths and your weaknesses, your loves, your hopes and dreams are all mine now. They exist for my daughter and son and every day, I wonder how you managed...
by Devjani Bodepudi | May 7, 2016 | Travel, Uncategorized
There are times when it’s important to step forward into simpler times. We’ve taken a break from the daily grind before we head back into the throes of it. We’ve been in Hyderabad for over a month now, with a week’s break in between on a tropical island. Time stops...
by Devjani Bodepudi | Jul 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Inequality exists everywhere, not more so, than right here in Calcutta. There’s rich and poor, there’s the educated and the not, there’s man and woman. In every walk of life, for every step I take outside of my front door, I am confronted by a different reality where...
