Namrata Das Adhikary

Travel
November 14, 2025

Living With the Bishnois

Jodhpur, the Blue city that everyone fancies is a jumble of the wow’s and the how’s! It’s a canvas full of multiple colours, with a culture so rich and intriguing that you are bound to fall in love with the place, one corner at a time. However, even though…

Book Reviews, Literature
October 13, 2025

Of Sisters, Stories, and Selfhood: Reading Little Women Anew

Drawing heavily from Alcott’s own life, Little Women is an enduring American novel, set during the tumultuous American Civil War. On one level, it appears to be a picture-perfect tale of the March sisters navigating their lives in a gentle domestic society. On the other hand, it is a coming-of-age…

Grief, Journal, Motherhood
September 17, 2025

Between Her Goodbye and His Hello

I think motherhood humbles you in ways you could never imagine. I still remember questioning my mother’s sanity when she would act overly obsessed with me and my brother. She would be consumed by our whereabouts 24×7, always anxious about putting food on our plates, showing up for us every…

Grief, Journal, Motherhood
September 16, 2025

The Museum of Lasts

We kept tugging at the same thread. Me from one end. My mother from the other. I would stretch it so hard that the tension grew unbearable. Every day, I’d press down on it — just to check if it’s still holding well. It trembled whenever I did so. Fragile.…

Journal, Motherhood
September 16, 2025

Nostalgic for Now

I have a strange problem. I end up missing the moments as they unfold. In real-time. You know, those moments when the mountains are kissing the clouds in the backdrop while I sit with a book in my hand just as I had always imagined. And yet, deep down, I’m…

Journal, Lifestyle
September 12, 2025

What I learned in my 20s

A few months ago, I completed another orbit around the sun, reaching an age when Lorelai Gilmore was already mothering a teenager. Strangely enough, a 30-year old mother is often considered older than a 35-year old single woman. That’s just how societal perspectives are wired. Today, at 30, if I…

Journal
September 3, 2025

Desire to be Seen, Instinct to Disappear

It was 2011. I had just stepped into high school, trying to find a way around thicker textbooks and heavier expectations. It was also the year that marked the birth of quite an unpretentious notion – you need to catch up. Catch up with the syllabus. Catch up with the newfound…