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Ronita Chattopadhyay
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Gave myself permission to be a poet; Love books, mountains and tea; working at the intersection of process documentation and qualitative research in India
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This was yesterday.
A photo showing trees with a S shaped curved wooden bench, a pathway and more plants/shrubs on the side
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Divinity on the road.
Black and white photo of a puja pandal (on the side of a busy road) honouring Goddess Jagaddhatri; a small painting of Lord Shiva is placed on the left of the idol
October 31, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Love cafes that also sell books and this was an unexpected find at one today.
Hand holding a book against a backdrop (pink and red and white) ; book title Apostrophe by Barnali Ray Shukla, Winner of the RL Poetry Award 2016 National (India) Category, book cover in light yellow with reddish-pink flowers and leaves along one side
October 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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On the road scenes.
Alpona/rangoli to celebrate Kali Pujo and Diwali Figures of Dakini and Jogini next to a street side temple
October 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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And here is a poem that was published in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social Poetry Special (Fictile Feelings). The amazing issue can be accessed here
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Fictile Feelings (pg 71) Ronita Chattopadhyay In Anticipation Pilu, like the Hindustani classical music raag, and Punnu and Pintu, which really mean nothing but have followed me from childhood till now. These daak naams (nicknames) and worlds of indescribable meanings and feelings will also disappear when my mother is gone. THR Poetry Special, October 2025
October 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Today's gift - Aparajita flower
An Aparajita flower with stem and leaves (also other plants) against a railing with street and buildings and gray evening sky also visible
October 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Looking forward to exploring this beautiful book of Hindi poetry translated in English from Red River. And saw some familiar names among the translators including @saudaminideo.bsky.social. Congratulations to all involved.
Book cover with flower detail in golden yellow against dark turquoise colour; text: 40 Poets, 26 Translators, 200 Poems The Red River Book of 21st Century Hindi Poetry Perennial, selected and edited by Sourav Roy and Tuhin Bhowal
October 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Current read. Boy, Unloved by Damodar Mauzo, translated by Jerry Pinto, Speaking Tiger publication
A hand holding a book against a curtain; book cover showing the title Boy, Unloved (by) Damodar Mauzo Translated by Jerry Pinto, Speaking Tiger logo, image: painting of a beach with the figure of a boy standing in water, sky above with two birds, framed by two trees, blueish- turquoise tones dominant; top part of a bookmark also visible
October 6, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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The ritual of arrival and leaving
A black and white photo of Goddess Durga being taken for the final immersion.
October 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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And here is the poem included in @everscribemag.bsky.social
Ronita Chattopadhyay A prayer for these times When so much around us, within us, is coming undone, may we still somehow find hope and care and joy at least in part (because abundance is in short supply) and also homes in words that never die. Everscribe Magazine, pg 40, August-September 2025 Issue 12 (Brief bio is also given)
October 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Durga Puja at Agrani Club, Kolkata. Theme: Amrit manthan. Photos showing the pandal from outside and inside including the idols.
September 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Langston Hughes Final Curve When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
September 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Godhuli... The beauty of dusk
Photo of green field with green trees and the blue grey sky with streaks of golden orange
August 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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In the evening (flower: Allamanda)
Black and white photo of Allamanda flower with stems and leaves of multiple plants against a wall and a box railing and a building visible on Tuesday other side
August 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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What I needed to see today
Yellow hibiscus with red at its base against a backdrop of green leaves
August 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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So yes.. I am using books to escape. And this is the world I will be escaping to. The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar @indrapramitdas.bsky.social @westlandbooks.bsky.social
Book placed on an off white coloured bed sheet with a flower pattern; book title The Last Dragoners of Bowbazaar by Indra Das with a blue background showing an arched door with a dragon and another fiery being; award won mentioned and a blurb (A love story to growing up weird: Vajra Chandrasekera)
August 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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And they are beautiful even as they wither.
A photo of two white roses withering and leaves, portions of other pots and the concrete darkened roof floor visible
August 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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This. @josephfasano.bsky.social
Ceasefire The brain of one human child will hold over 2.5 quadrillion bytes of information. 2.5 quadrillion memories that will never be again - (Sunday morning, father in the orange trees, the way the stars appear only to her.) When you kill a child you kill all the stars in the world. Joseph Fasano
July 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Finally get to hold a copy of the Grieving Hope anthology with my first microchapbook Preparing to be wrecked. And I share space with amazing writers @kimsrogers.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social, Charlotte Hamrick and Janet Murie. Thanks @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social
A hand holding a book with the cover in light grey background, an orange flower with green leaves and a light purple bud; text: Grieving Hope Microchap Volume II, Edited by Diane Gottlieb Featuring Kristina Tabor, Janet Murie, Charlotte Hamrick, Ronita Chattopadhyay, Kim Steutermann Rogers; behind the book there is a dark red box with golden leaves pattern and a colourful Ganesh statue on top of it, part of a tray with a stem and leaves pattern, a wall in light orange colour
July 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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This has felt like a personal loss. Andrea Gibson made a difference with her words, her life.
"I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I've seen flowers bloom at midnight. I've seen kites fly in gray skies, and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometimes it takes the most wounded wings, the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight." - Andrea Gibson
July 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Always a favourite.
No Explosions To enjoy fireworks you would have to have lived a different kind of life. Naomi Shihab Nye
July 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Glad to be a part of @dreich.bsky.social new venture The Candyman's Trumpet with a poem that was written a while ago but found it's home now. Poems do have their own journeys!
A black cover with a white box with different kinds of leaves; on top - July 25, ISSN number and magazine name The Candyman's Trumpet with a picture of a trumpet; list of contributors mentioned on the side of the white box; below the box - Curated by Jack Caradoc, Twenty Poets - Twenty Poems Ronita Chattopadhyay You are different (title) I am told. Not like the people from here. Maybe, it is because you are from the mountains. Even though I don't always get it, I smile Actually, I am from a valley (if one is trying to be precise). Last time, when I went home I heard about the holiday rush with the long queue of cars and crazy traffic jams and unruly crowds strangling the mountainside. And I said - let's just stay here and not go up. We will figure out another way, another time. You know, sometimes, staying away is also love. It's just love of another kind.
July 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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And here's what I think could be a list poem. Thanks Eulogy Press for giving it a home.
What I found today when clearing Drafts in Gmail by Ronita Chattopadhyay Hi! I wanted to check another thing Height 50 inch 4 feet, width 8 feet 9 inch (?) Photograph of a bag with a cross-stitch patch made by a friend for me Dear all, Further to our conversation 'Lyrical precision of poetry, economy of language and expansion of metaphor' (no subject) (no body) Ronita is an Indian poet. She loves sweets, books, mountains and tea, sometimes excessively and not always in this order.
June 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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As evening turns to night
A black and white photo of leaves and stems against the box railing overlooking the street outside with a road and a taxi and buildings; the leaves catching (and framing) light from a streetlight and a vehicle
June 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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My #LiftToTheSKy is for @victoriachang.bsky.social for so many of her poems and particularly this and the heart and the heft of it.
There is a bird and a stone in your body. Your job is not to kill the bird with the stone. Victoria Chang
June 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM