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  • Happy New Year: Counting My Blessings

    Photo by  Kostiantyn Li via unsplash.com Yesterday, I was returning home from vacation and the whole dislike for waiting rooms and the existential dread of yet another year ending, with the reminder of all our forever dissatisfactions sent me off on a spiral of longing and wishes. Which is fine, I guess. After all, this […]

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    Ruchira Mandal

    January 1, 2023
    Happy New Year, new year
    blessings, gratitude
  • The Waiting Hall: New Year’s Eve

    On the last day of the year, we came down from the mountains at the end of our little winter vacation. As the car pulled into the ‘Drop & Drive’ lane, I felt the stirrings of a vague sense of anxiety.

    Ruchira Mandal

    December 31, 2022
    And I Love You So, Happy New Year, journey, journeys, love, Love, Love Songs, Original Song Lyrics, SongWriting, Love Poetry, new year, Uncategorized, vacation
    lovesick, new year's wishes, waiting, Wishes
  • An Elegy for My Lost Stories

    When I was fifteen, a friend lent me a book. I hadn’t asked her for it, I didn’t even know she had it, but she lent it to me anyway because she had asked me if I had read it and I told her no, but I wanted to. The book was called Harry Potter […]

    Ruchira Mandal

    August 9, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Avengers, childhood, Harry Potter, memory, Nostalgia, Sadness, Stories, Stranger Things, the sandman
  • To my Love, Listen,…

    Imagine an empty room. Imagine a house. Or a world. Imagine an entire star-spangled universe with its make-believe show of beginnings and ends. A show that engulfs us, consumes us and drives us towards each other. Or away from. Even from ourselves. Now imagine us. Forget the noise. It’s just you and I. All that […]

    Ruchira Mandal

    June 22, 2022
    Anniversaries, big bang theory, blog, Blooms Day, childhood, memories, home, depression, roads, cange, transience, cosmos, creation, creative writing, Death, depression, depressions, Dreams, emptiness, zombies, zombie apocalypse, ed sheeran, lego house, house of cards, card castle, end of the world, journey, journeys, lightyears, loneliness., loss, love, Silence, song, songs, soul, beauty, joy, communion, epiphany, space, space travel, stardust, stars, Stories, the woman at the window, Ulysses, Uncategorized, universe, violence, war, words, write anything, writer’s block, writers’ block, writing, YouTube
    epiphanies, epiphany, James Joyce, life, life-paths, love, music, poetry, Purpose, Stranger Things, Ulysses
  • Poems, memories and moving past heartbreaks

    Day 17. Today I wrote a haiku for International Haiku Day, using the phrase ‘gibbous moon’. This was the prompt from the Instagram page Kavyajananipoetry. The prompt from napowrimo.net was quite cool, it was just that I wanted to catch up with some of my reading lists, so I wrote only one poem. But I did think […]

    Ruchira Mandal

    April 19, 2022
    Love, Love Songs, Original Song Lyrics, SongWriting, Love Poetry, napowrimo, national poetry writing month, poetry
    dogs, friendship, glopowrimo, heartbreak, napowrimo, National poetry month, National Poetry Writing Month, poetry, Poetry prompts, relationships, wordle
  • On Getting a PhD, NaPoWriMo & Stuff

    Sorry, it has been a while. Things just pile up on one another, you know. But here’s the main news. The thing I’ve been waiting for since last December finally happened. Last month, on the 16th, I got my TARDIS driving license. Which is to say, I successfully defended my PhD thesis. What? I’ve been […]

    Ruchira Mandal

    April 17, 2022
    Love, Love Songs, Original Song Lyrics, SongWriting, Love Poetry, napowrimo, national poetry writing month, poetry, Uncategorized
    napowrimo, poetry
  • Monday Musings

    I have a folder full of grading to do. Just the grading. Put a number against the white, no evaluation required. I am paid for my signature, not my opinion. I have four different excel sheets to fill up and I can’t bring myself to open my laptop. I keep wondering when you reach the […]

    Ruchira Mandal

    January 24, 2022
    academia,, academic,, creative writing, Delirium, depression, depressions, direction, dream, Dreams
    depression, poetry, poetry reading
  • The Anatomy of Waiting

    I’ve been looking for things to say.  I have been afraid of staring at blank pages. What if someday I have nothing to say anymore? What if nothing I say interests anyone anymore? What if no one hears me? What if they hear me and laugh at my naiveté? So what am I going to write […]

    Ruchira Mandal

    December 20, 2021
    Uncategorized
    depression, existentialism, folklore, godot, Hope, manifestation, music evermore, Nihilism, poetry, Poets, Purpose, samuel beckett, sartre, sisyphus, songs, taylore swift, waiting
  • The Data Cycle: Teaching on the CBCS Syllabi during the Pandemic

    ‘Why am I doing this? What am I changing? Am I doing any good at all?’ In my professional teaching career in Higher Education of over six years, I have often found myself confronted with these questions.  As I sit here almost regretting my hasty promise to Arunima to write this piece, I am drowning […]

    Ruchira Mandal

    November 28, 2021
    academia,, academic,, education, literature, teaching,
    academia, academic, andrew marvell, data, datacycle, education, learning, literature, music, music album, paperwork, poetry, Teachers, Teaching
  • When I Fear I May Cease To Be

    Isn’t the Mercury Retrograde over yet? Everything seems suspended in a strange sort of stasis. We return to our lives that used to be with the shadow of a fear. I just want us all to be happy again. In the room where I got my vaccine doses, the lights on the ceiling were soft […]

    Ruchira Mandal

    October 21, 2021
    depression, Lockdown
    alienation, depression, Lockdown, loneliness, love
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