Spectrum Voice
Spectrum Voice
- Location
- Gurgaon, India
- Birthday
- October 11
- Bio
- I am a compulsive blogger, an amateur photographer, and a self-taught creative writer. I enjoy writing short stories and articles. My works have been published in several newspapers and magazines in India (The Indian Express, The Statesman, Woman’s Era, Muse India, etc.) and in several e-journals in the USA (Mused- Bella Online Literary Review, The Smoking Poet, Fiction at Work, etc.).
http://barnalisahabanerjee.blogspot.com
MY RECENT POSTS
- Past-times and Penmanship
April 19, 2013 03:28AM - Traveling in the Pink Zone of
Female Empowerment
March 11, 2013 05:56AM - Confessions of a Bibliophile
on the Eve of Valentine’s
Day
February 13, 2013 10:21AM - Youth Jettisoning Literature
for the Internet?
February 11, 2013 11:28AM - Alone in the Forest--A
translation
February 06, 2013 03:22AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Dear Alan: It's great to
meet another Wodehouse
aficionado; I
am mad about the
o…”
February 14, 2013 06:53AM - “@Alan Nothnagle: Dear
A:
Thank you for
reading my article and posting
the excellen…”
February 12, 2013 11:32AM - “@Jeanette DeMain: Dear
J, as a student of literature
imagine
my consternation
whe…”
February 12, 2013 11:22AM - “@Jeanette DeMain: Dear
J, as a student of literature
imagine
my consternation
whe…”
February 12, 2013 11:18AM - “Dear
Mary,
Thank you for
your kind words. As an admirer
of your own
marvelous
styl…”
January 10, 2012 09:04AM
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Past-times and Penmanship
I sometimes cannot help but wonder that succumb as we may to the general fluxion of the world, can we indeed totally jettison the past and all the elements related to it in our process of change. Doesn’t the waves of the eternal sea that envelop us and drown… Read full post »
Traveling in the Pink Zone of Female Empowerment
Confessions of a Bibliophile on the Eve of Valentine’s Day
Today the world seems to gird up its loins to celebrate the universal day of love tomorrow, and young and old lovers continue to look for novel gifts for their sweethearts assisted in their endeavor by kindly online-vendors, blogs, newspaper supplements and innumera… Read full post »
Youth Jettisoning Literature for the Internet?
Barnali Saha
This evening as I sit reading “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens, the wordsmith who according to Claire Tomalin, author of the new biography Charles Dickens: A Life, is after Shakespeare perhaps the… Read full post »
Alone in the Forest--A translation
Aranye Eka
Original short story written by Sunil Gangopadhyay
Translated from Bengali by Barnali Saha
Picture Courtesy: ibnlive.in.com
Modhu was alone in the forest. He, however, constantly felt that somebody else was around him. The anima
The Voice of Charles Dickens
Romancing with History: Part1--Visit to the Red Fort
North-India is in winter a beauty to behold, we have mornings thickly laden with nebulous layers of fog and mid-afternoons and afternoons when the fulgent sun targets its mollified rays at the heart of the city thus radiating warmth and wintry torpor. It is… Read full post »
To Retail or Not to Retail That is the Question
Remember that scene from Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan starrer 1998 romantic comedy film You've Got Mail where Kathleen Kelly’s (Meg Ryan’s) bookstore The Shop Around the Corner falls prey to the corporate fangs of the Fox Books. Those of yo
Perfect One, Where Art Thou?
Picture from: http://www.wolfescape.com/Humour/MenWomen.htm
What’s with women and perfectness. I can’t help but notice all the talks about women and perfect men. Step into a clique of unmarried young women and all you hear will be the bla..bla..blas about that perf… Read full post »
So it went. A morning came; the steady growth of the day, the tardigrade progress of my mental strength, and then the final joy. Yes, I have done it: I am finally taking a writing break. I left the city, a meaningless place sunk in blind ignavia and its motorized,/… Read full post »
Back to School: Part 2: Seminar Day
What is Poetry? An arrangement of scenes, trivial or tragic,
romantic or practical, viatic or static, homely or fantastic
featuring more or less the plausible events (of life and dream)
patched up with deliberate details. That is how poetry struck me
when I sat a few
On Reading Virginia Woolf's A room of One's Own
On Reading Virginia Woolf's A room of On'es Own
Look inside and write; trust the little voice inside you. Be honest, be true, to yourself. Virginia Woolf’s
Experiences are probably the most precious fragments you assemble in life. Though I won’t go to the absurd length of calling them jewels or rubies you find by the Indian Ganges’ side, I would definitely call them intellectually fortifying and remarkably unique. It amazes… Read full post »
To Our Teacher, with Love
Every time it is the same—a newspaper cover graced with howling faces, intimate albeit hazy pictures of mangled corpses or half-dead men, women and children being hauled to some medical establishment, and a series of listlessly aggressive reports posted under red-banner like headings dictatin… Read full post »
Writing about Writing
Writing about Writing
I was listening to Ernest Hemingway’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech this morning where the famous irrealist talks about writing being essentially a lonely vocation. You compose when you are alone. And I couldn’t agree more with the grainy, masculine tenor my comp
Kitchen Disasters and Me: Complaints of an Unskilled Chef
Call me a nupson if you will, but I deserve to speak my mind when wielding the skillet is considered. In fact, fidimplicitary no more on the cooking issue, I hereby declare my opinion: cooking is… Read full post »
Taking the pen
Picture from the web
The Diseased
Nothing aggravates me in a fine March morning, when the sky is blue, the Bohea steaming, and my general mood in the pink, like seeing a buffoon venditating its momentary physical discomfort on a popular virtual forum. Directly I catch sight of such lame… Read full post »
Valentine's Day
Contrary to the expectations of the young lovers, the sun on Valentine's Day did not resemble a giant heart dancing high up in the sky, and neither did the nightingale sing Justin Bieber's Baby. Valentine's Day has so far proved to be just like another day, at least for/… Read full post »
Modern technophiles have been predicting the doom of books as we know them: the death of folios and quartos, hardback and shinning paperbacks. They envisage that in a few decades books are going to be a thing of the past and e-readers like Kindle, etc., would become the… Read full post »
Deal or no Deal -- An account of my Craigslist transactions
What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
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