Category: religion, god, faith, universe, beauty, spirituality

• Star-Children

  It has been a while since I’ve blogged. Apologies to you, and to myself as well for not writing. I have been planning this piece for a while, and it has been so long that I have probably forgotten what I was going to say. But then, this is a ramble, really, so it doesn’t…

  Ruchira Mandal

  March 28, 2019

  lightyears, multiverse, religion, god, faith, universe, beauty, spirituality, science, serendipity, space, space travel, speculative, time-travel, Uncategorized, universe, wormholes, writing

  .his dark materials, cosmos, dark matter, existentialism, God, philip pullman, philosophy, religion, space, stars, universe

• Nightmares and Meandering Thoughts

  First of all, apologies for the long absence. Also, I know I promised a surprise, and I was supposed to host a writer-friend who was going to talk about his new novel, but I went on vacation, and then he went on vacation and somehow it didn’t sort of work out. To make up for…

  Ruchira Mandal

  November 24, 2018

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  Dreams, education, excelsior, friends, goodbyes, home, humanity, journey, knowledge, learning, life, literature, nightmares, relationships, roads, school, writing

• Dream Diary

  My dreams weave in and out of train stations, crossing perilous oceans on un-navigated ships- always an anxious waiting for arrival, never reaching- promises of fabulous cities drifting away in meandering mazes or wrecked vessels, like that omnipresent thirst as cups of tea become as elusive of the alchemist’s secret formula cooked in holy chalices…

  Ruchira Mandal

  October 9, 2018

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  captain america, chris evans, Dreams, existentialism, home, hopes, humanity, journeys, life, love, maps, marvel, mcu, memories, poetry, steverogers, time, uncertainty, universe, writing

• Where the Vanished Light Goes

  This rambling piece of writing grew out of a poem that grew out of a CNN tweet of an article about the biggest ever black hole that has been discovered so far: “Astronomers have found the fastest-growing black hole ever seen in the universe. “ I am not a science person, but there are two topics that I have…

  Ruchira Mandal

  May 27, 2018

  apocalypse, big bang theory, black hole, creation, light, light and dark, multiverse, nasa, poetry, religion, god, faith, universe, beauty, spirituality, space, space travel, st.augustine, stars, time, time machine, time-travel, Uncategorized, universe, white hole theory, wormhole theory

  cnn, communication, life, nasa, outerspace, poetry, spacetravel, time, timetravel, universe, writing

• Orbits

    There’s this word, or idea that I like. Journey. Odyssey. We are travelers in time and space, all seeking, knowingly, or unknowingly our purpose in life. Pilgrimage. That’s another word. Draupadi and her five husbands knew this when they embarked on the final journey of their lives (perhaps a lifelong path of wandering homelessness…

  Ruchira Mandal

  January 21, 2018

  carpe diem, circles, communication-gap, cosmos, Death, Delirium, depression, depressions, direction, dream, Dreams, inspiration, language, loneliness., loss, love, procastrination, religion, god, faith, universe, beauty, spirituality, Silence, universe, words, writing

  communication, depression, Dreams, hopes, journeys, life, love, melancholy, Odyssey

• A Rose by any other Name…

  What’s in a name, you say? In Kalimpong I overheard a little girl complaining about the name of the mountain to her father. “What kind of name is Kanchenjungha? I don’t like it.” “And what do you think the mountain should be named?” “Megha Mountain. Because it touches the clouds.” A while later, as her…

  Ruchira Mandal

  January 13, 2018

  religion, god, faith, universe, beauty, spirituality, Uncategorized