Anindita Sengupta » writing http://aninditasengupta.com Poet, writer, columnist Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:07:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse  http://aninditasengupta.com/2011/01/there-was-the-hedge-sure-enough-but-one-got/ http://aninditasengupta.com/2011/01/there-was-the-hedge-sure-enough-but-one-got/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:09:12 +0000 Anindita http://aninditasengupta.com/2011/01/there-was-the-hedge-sure-enough-but-one-got/ There was the hedge, sure enough. But one got nothing by soliciting urgently. One got only a glare in the eye from looking at the line of the wall, or from thinking—she wore a grey hat. She was astonishingly beautiful. Let it come, she thought, if it will come. For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel. And if one can neither think nor feel, she thought, where is one?

]]> http://aninditasengupta.com/2011/01/there-was-the-hedge-sure-enough-but-one-got/feed/ 0 "There was the hedge, sure enough. But one got nothing by soliciting urgently. One got only a glare…" http://aninditasengupta.com/2011/01/there-was-the-hedge-sure-enough-but-one-got-nothing-by-soliciting-urgently-one-got-only-a-glare/ http://aninditasengupta.com/2011/01/there-was-the-hedge-sure-enough-but-one-got-nothing-by-soliciting-urgently-one-got-only-a-glare/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:09:12 +0000 Anindita http://aninditasengupta.tumblr.com/post/2859642612 http://aninditasengupta.com/2011/01/there-was-the-hedge-sure-enough-but-one-got-nothing-by-soliciting-urgently-one-got-only-a-glare/feed/ 0 YOU’VE BEEN VERBED | More Intelligent Life http://aninditasengupta.com/2011/01/mothers-and-fathers-used-to-bring-up-children-now/ http://aninditasengupta.com/2011/01/mothers-and-fathers-used-to-bring-up-children-now/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:19:10 +0000 Anindita http://aninditasengupta.com/2011/01/mothers-and-fathers-used-to-bring-up-children-now/ Mothers and fathers used to bring up children: now they parent. Critics used to review plays: now they critique them. Athletes podium, executives flipchart, and almost everybody Googles. Watch out—you’ve been verbed. The English language is in a constant state of flux. New words are formed and old ones fall into disuse. But no trend has been more obtrusive in recent years than the changing of nouns into verbs. “Trend” itself (now used as a verb meaning “change or develop in a general direction”, as in “unemployment has been trending upwards”) is further evidence of—sorry, evidences—this phenomenon.

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]]> http://aninditasengupta.com/2011/01/toto-awards-2011/feed/ 0 TFA Awards: Call for entries http://aninditasengupta.com/2009/10/tfa-awards-call-for-entries/ http://aninditasengupta.com/2009/10/tfa-awards-call-for-entries/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:49:08 +0000 Anindita http://aninditasengupta.com/?p=1551 UPDATE: The last date for submissions has been extended to November 15, 2009.

Toto Funds the Arts (TFA) invites submissions for the sixth annual arts awards for young photographers, writers, musicians and bands. There are five awards to be won – one for music (Rs 50,000), two for photography (Rs 25,000 each), and two for creative writing (Rs 25,000 each). More details here.

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