Mind on Paper

By Debadrita Jana

The first rains . A novel. A new city.
An old lover. An older friend. Longing for home.

All these people, places, feelings and impressions sometimes stay with us forever, like snapshots captured at exactly the right moment. Mind on Paper is a collection of twenty-odd such snapshots, bits of real life frozen in time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Jul 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781482883954

Debadrita Jana

Debadrita likes to capture the sudden and powerful impressions that people and places make on her during her everyday life, work and travels. When she is not looking for oil and gas reserves for her job as a geologist, she is the proud parent of a beautiful one year-old cat, Shadow.

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Copyright © 2016 by Debadrita Jana.

ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-4828-8396-1

                eBook          978-1-4828-8395-4

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Contents

Part I

People, Feelings

Ma

Offerings

For My Evening Star

Songs Are Not My Thing

Murakami Saturdays

When I Think Of You

Sensations

Would You Care?

On Writing

All I Have To Give

Hey.

Letting You Go

A Few Small Things

Part II

Places, Impressions

April

Ah, December!

Evenings

The Zahir And Me

The Moon, My Friend

Travelogues

Diary Of A Migrant

Home

Shubho Mahalaya

Aschhe Bochhor

An Ode To My Roots

Delhi

Mumbai, Meri Jaan

Happy New Year

To

My Mum

for saving all those scraps of paper where I would secretly write whatever came to my mind

My very best friends

for giving me the courage to show the world my writing

(you know who you are)

And to those that inspired me

For unknowingly- as our paths crossed, diverged, and crossed again…

You gave me my poetry.

Part I

People,

Feelings

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Ma

Crisp cotton sarees draped in thirty seconds

And the round teep in the same shade of maroon and the exact same size throughout my twenty-odd