Godhuli Nanda

  • Dumpling

    They were friends since school. Four girls with hopes in their senses and adoration in their spirits, were inseparable. They felt an uncanny solidarity which was near impossible to find in this imperfect world. Their secrets were their own, their madness hidden safe among them and their love for each other shone brighter than fireworks…

  • Fragmentary

    (In memory of my beautiful Grandmother, Asha) She liked stories. Stories which spoke of unseen striking worlds that she longed to be a part of. She would obsess about the characters and plots after getting emerged in a fiction, ask questions incessantly and dream up new lands of shooting arrows, dragons and myths. She loved…

  • Shiny Trinkets

    Summers in Bhubaneswar were sultry and humid. In erratic gaps the city would see tormented showers of rain. But, they did nothing to wipe off the sweat of the people or the thirst in their eyes. The heat was often adamant in that part of rocky Kalinga. The Daya river sauntered in a dainty but…

  • Hell hath no fury.

    In the dead of the night, I found my sobriety.  The previous day, my unease was doing a continuous spiral between dull ache and magnificent clarity. However, I was dubious regarding the true nature of an anti-happiness that I was feeling right in the center of my very being. I will not say that I…

  • Grumble much?

    *A Diary Entry maybe* 12/11/2015 Lately, I have been in a trance of forever dubiety. I seem to drift in my space of mind into endless horizons of wanton wants, self pity and one certain strife for an enigmatic restoration of my ambitious self. All right! I make no sense. But is anyone? What does…

  • Words of a Soul.

    To, The Craved Childhood Impasse Justification, ramification of the perverse course that the languid existence shaped into is not what I speak of here. I speak of the glory that pertained in the swift discourse of time. The mythical childlike curtain that ever engulfed making its dramatic disappearance took away the solid gold of innocence.…