Archive - Through The Storyteller's Glasses 👓

Apr 6 •

Rituparna Ghosh

A Sky of My Own

If I could command the weather, I’d ask for clear blue skies

Apr 2 •

Rituparna Ghosh

0:24

March 2025

When Substack feels like 'unfinished' business. Trying to break the jinx in 'writing'.

Mar 22 •

Rituparna Ghosh

1:30

November 2024

Grief, I see you…

Grief wants to be in the spotlight. It wants to be seen. Acknowledged. Wanted. Respected. Maybe then it will be kind towards me.

Nov 24, 2024 •

Rituparna Ghosh

October 2024

Maa will cry reading this. I know she will. I wrote this AFTER she returned home. So we could cry in our homes and remember that we are complete even…

Oct 14, 2024 •

Rituparna Ghosh

September 2024

The Gift of Attention

The English language makes attention an exchange, or a transaction. It asks the giver to invest one’s attention or ‘pay’ (for) it. The question is what…

Sep 22, 2024 •

Rituparna Ghosh

August 2024

📍Grief - 📍Healing - 📍Life

I turned 43 yesterday. I didn't want to celebrate. Everyone else in my family did. I have to learn how to celebrate. Here is how I am moving through…

Aug 25, 2024 •

Rituparna Ghosh

Crossroads & Intersections

Crossroads & Intersections, is my first set of realistic-fiction inspired during a morning walk when 'crossroads' spoke to me, asking me to tell stories…

Aug 18, 2024 •

Rituparna Ghosh

“How did you become a Storyteller?” I have told this story many times. Today, I will tell it again. Let me ‘begin here’, with the untold origin story…

Aug 11, 2024 •

Rituparna Ghosh

July 2024

"Less Talk, More Swim!"

I decided to swim till my 50th. Sometime between my 35th and 40th lap, I imagined Baba standing under the umbrella, sipping his beer, smoking & watching…

Jul 28, 2024 •

Rituparna Ghosh

To be Seen - To be Heard - To be Understood - To be Accepted

I am my father’s daughter, I know it. Yet, there is a desperate clawing inside my soul to claim more from him. Do I have his greatest quality?

Jul 14, 2024 •

Rituparna Ghosh

When no one believes your story!

There are three stories that we tell. The first, the story we tell ourselves. The second, the story we tell others. The third, the story others tell…

Jul 8, 2024 •

Rituparna Ghosh

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