books and passions

A VIVID MEMORY / BY AMRITA DAS Spitting of rain and roaring of wind always allure a nature lover. This feeling posits itself in a different level. It's like closing the eyes and perceiving the beauty. And a book lover who carries Romantic poets like Wordsworth , Coleridge in her heart , for her witnessing these beauty is nothing less than congregating happiness and flourishing heart. Being solitude never disappoints me rather it emanates another type of complacency. Same happened to me on 4th of  July though I was not lonely at that time , my circumstances allowed me to be. It was an auspicious day for Hindu culture  , the day of Rath Yatra and my husband was on leave. So in the evening time we decided to visit nearby Iscon temple. The road was almost blocked everywhere because of the crowd and the march of the worshippers. Still we managed to get short cuts and after an immense search of the exact location of the temple at last reached there after 30 minutes. But ...

Pregnancy blog by Amrita Das. Before you start to read this blog I wanna make you aware that this is my totally own experience. I have not influenced by other's thoughts. So here it is and hopefully you guys will like it. It  is said that maternity is a bliss and being a mother a woman gets all the pleasures of life that a man cant achieve. Grown up with this thought I came to know the verity behind it after my pregnancy actually. Though I have read and researched on many women issues where I have been mentioned that conjugal life is just a fantasy but luckily I got a good husband and my thought partly became false. Partly because I am still thwarted from few things because of my married life. But here my contention is not about married life , how it is going on and all that. But it is about my maternity experience. This blog is carrying only the narratives of few months of my 1st trimester which I have spent in a quite hectic way. The reason behind my grumble has been exper...