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Roudri Bandyopadhyay

Originally from Madhya Pradesh, India, Roudri Bandyopadhyay is a nonfiction writer currently based in Norfolk, VA, where she is completing her MFA in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. Prior to this she worked for a few years as a journalist, but has always kept her passion for the drama and glamor in mythology and classical Indian literature— which she tries to make part of her storytelling. Her stories most often deal with themes of feminism, social stigma, and political relevance.

August Rains | Roudri Bandyopadhyay

“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.” – Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s First Prime Minister Red Fort, New Delhi, August 1947 [Read the rest...] “August Rains | Roudri Bandyopadhyay”