
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Unwoven Dawns

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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 2:01:00 PM No comments:Saturday, January 18, 2025
C'est la Vie ! : କଳ୍ପନାର ହିମଦେଶ

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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 7:11:00 AM 2 comments:Thursday, April 25, 2024
Never-Ending Pages: ଅସରନ୍ତି ପୃଷ୍ଠା ସବୁ

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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 10:02:00 PM No comments:Sunday, March 14, 2021
Three and a bit more.

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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 3:14:00 PM No comments:Sunday, February 14, 2021
Interlaced Scents

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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 6:27:00 PM No comments:Thursday, January 14, 2021
Food and Love
After the quick snack, we retreated to our room. After an hour or so, one of the staff members came to ask for our choice for dinner. There was no menu to choose from, just like we do not have in our homes. We could request for anything as long as the requisite grocery is available in the kitchen pantry. On further discussions, we got to know that Kashmiri rajma (kidney beans), unlike other rajmas, need not be soaked before cooking. That sounded interesting to us; ergo we chose it as one of our options for dinner. The dinner was delectable, to say the least. It had the comfort of dinner at home. What started with the cookies and Qahwa was cemented further by the dinner and I was finally at home, completely.
Food truly is an emotion. Good food, cooked with love and served with care, can establish an unfathomably strong bond, and can connect memories and emotions.
The next day I walked into the dining room for breakfast with the same feeling as I would have at my home. I knew whatever will be served will be something that I would definitely connect to- something that would have the solace of some happy, and amiable memories. And it was. Aloo ke paratha was just the way I would have liked. What better way to start your day! Normally, when on a trip, we prefer to visit other restaurants for lunch and/or dinner. However, this time it was different. We lived there for five days and we chose to have food there whenever chance favored.
We never missed any dinner there except once when we went out to a restaurant which I had in my bucket list for that trip. That restaurant was somewhere near Lal chowk area, which apparently was a place for protests and not as safe (as per some news media). Our host offered to drop us to the restaurant. Such warming gesture- who does that now-a-days! We did not want to be of inconvenience to him, but he insisted.
On reaching the restaurant, he told us that he will not be joining us for the dinner. We insisted him to join us. He was an amazing company and a warm person. Insisting him to join was never out of question. However, he wanted to have dinner back at home, which we understood and did not force further. Further, he told us to give him a call when we are done with our dinner, so that he can come and pick us back. On listening to this, we were just out of words. I felt gratitude to a level that I never knew before could exist. We went to the restaurant, had Kashmiri Wazwan and some other dishes, which no doubt were scrumptious and brilliant.

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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 9:18:00 PM No comments:Thursday, August 20, 2020
The Desire
The desire....To fly, soaring across the limitless sky,
To explore, and be lost in the beautiful bay,
To dream, and think across the brae,
Oh! The desire.....
To be and still not be; anyway!

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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 2:44:00 AM No comments:Sunday, February 5, 2017
On Attainment of 7 Wonderful Years
It’s been a great journey of seven wonderful years now. We are now in our eighth year of the blog. I must say, the journey till date has been exhilarating and enlivening and all of you have been a great part of it. Some of you have been there with me since the very inception. I thank you all for staying up all these years. Some of you have recently joined us. I welcome you and thank you for joining. I hope and wish, together we will make the imminent days even more worthy.Copyright © One Life To Live. All Rights Reserved.
Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 4:54:00 AM No comments:Friday, January 27, 2017
One More Journey To Remember
My phone rang. It was my mother
calling me to ask if I had left or not. It was 5 minutes past my scheduled time
to leave for the airport. I told her that I have been ready for quite a while
now, almost half an hour and was waiting for the cab driver to call me. My
mother asked me to give a call to the driver and not wait any further for the
call, which I was anyways going to do. I called the driver, hoping (or rather
sure) to hear that he has reached and was waiting outside. Normally, the cab driver
reaches 10 minutes prior and gives a call to inform me of his arrival. However,
today was not one of those “normal” days. To my utter shock, the driver told me
that he would take another 10 minutes to reach my house.
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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 12:24:00 PM 2 comments:Sunday, June 12, 2016
I celebrate myself!
I celebrate myself!
I am a song.
I am a poem.
Like a book sans proem!

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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 12:20:00 AM No comments:Friday, January 23, 2015
Nutanataa ra Paribhasa
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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 4:16:00 AM 2 comments:Monday, December 29, 2014
Mahlaara ra Mayuri
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A Little Something:
I wrote this poem some months back. One fine afternoon, I was standing by the window looking at the tree outside and observing a few birds chirping around. It was as if nothing could bother them, they were just themselves.....as if they were rays of hope! I felt that they are living the most wonderful of lives. Whatever, wherever, whenever. Forever! If we live by hope, we have lived it good. If we can give somebody hope in despair, however insignificant it may be, we have lived it brilliant.
"Mahlaara" can be called as a collective noun. It is mostly associated with the rains and clouds. It is said to inflict rain. In musical context, "Raaga Malhar" is a powerful raga of Indian classical music, which when sung is said to bring upon rain. It signifies positiveness. "Mayuri" means peacock, the bird of the rains.
The little thought, which the birds inducted upon me, took shape into this simple poem.
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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 3:10:00 AM No comments:Monday, October 20, 2014
Magnum Opus
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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 4:33:00 PM No comments:Sunday, August 17, 2014
Symphony
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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 12:59:00 PM No comments:Monday, August 4, 2014
Hope and Begin!
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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 8:48:00 AM No comments:Thursday, February 6, 2014
Not so common!!

Everything in life is just like life itself. We are what we want to be. If we take into account the 'common'ness of problems (the frequency and amplitude part of it mostly) the way to solve it will just be a few moments away- because somewhere in our subconscious we would be knowing that since this is common, we have dealt with such types of situation and we have a way out - and that is the moment common sense plays its part. But think what would have happened if the 'uncommon'ness would have been perceived significantly. Our subconscious would never play its part; we would have concentrated harder and common sense would have been diminutive and ultimately the perception of the quantitative would affect the qualitative part of the issue.
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"Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen."
-Albert Einstein
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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 4:32:00 PM No comments:Tuesday, January 1, 2013
A New Beginning!!
New Year is supposed to gesture a new beginning, but sometimes I ponder whether everybody take it as a day of new beginnings or do they just choose it as the day to start their planned moments. I mean, if you have to start something new then any day can be it. In fact, why not the moment you decide to do something be the starting moment of its realization. You decide, you do. Why wait for a particular day? Why not treat today as the first and best day for the rest of your life?!
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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 7:00:00 PM No comments:Sunday, November 11, 2012
Abhihna Paristhiti Bhihna Anubhuti
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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 8:30:00 PM No comments:Friday, November 9, 2012
Achihnaa Swapna
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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 2:54:00 PM No comments:Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Just For The Sake Of.....
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Posted by Ipsita Upasana at 6:40:00 PM No comments:About Me
- Ipsita Upasana
- As a blogger, one of the things I am often asked is "How/ When did you get started with all this?" For as long as my memory takes me back, I have always found myself pondering about a plethora of things. I have always loved reflecting on the small but wonderful aspects of life. Ipsita Contemplates has been very special and I love to get the opportunity to share my musings, my thoughts, and my perceptions with you. It is also a way to appreciate the essence of Life!


















