https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/writer daily 0.75 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1614446384387-CC9VJJEABTJNTPTHYW6I/Sush+at+Folklife+Fest+2010-small.jpg https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/writer/stickers monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/6dccaeb7-0260-4c00-8c45-10fabd189561/PXL_20250819_170658583.jpg Writer - The Stumbling Stickers Project: “Memory, Resistance, and Care.” - Make it stand out Ashley, right, and me at the first location we put down a Stumbling Sticker. Arlington, August 2025. Photo LouLou Marino. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/2f50f86d-fba2-4be8-b84e-0c3eb91e7925/Safe+space+sticker5.jpg Writer - The Stumbling Stickers Project: “Memory, Resistance, and Care.” - Make it stand out Hearts & Hand, by Sushmita Mazumdar, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/fc9bb1c9-3c64-4f61-a803-9522e1895b0d/IMG_6573.jpeg Writer - The Stumbling Stickers Project: “Memory, Resistance, and Care.” - Make it stand out Me at the Stumbling Stones dedicated to Thornton and Daniel Check, on Columbia Pike, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/59b5b812-f2ff-4fda-b861-bb243b3a65eb/PXL_20250819_184825361.jpg Writer - The Stumbling Stickers Project: “Memory, Resistance, and Care.” - Make it stand out Map after four locations got their Stumbling Stickers. Arlington, August 2025. Photo LouLou Marino. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/2a906f31-0b2e-41f5-b8c3-2fb078b3d12b/IMG_6094.jpeg Writer - The Stumbling Stickers Project: “Memory, Resistance, and Care.” - Make it stand out Cobblestones waiting to be installed perhaps, Pankow, Berlin. August 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/4c343053-b04f-43d5-91cc-83108f2a8486/IMG_6008.jpeg Writer - The Stumbling Stickers Project: “Memory, Resistance, and Care.” - Make it stand out Stumbling across my first stolperstein outisde the Weinmeisterstasse subway station, Mitte, Berlin, August 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/4345a4c5-44fc-4375-977a-6bb4e97ead28/IMG_6582.jpeg Writer - The Stumbling Stickers Project: “Memory, Resistance, and Care.” - Make it stand out Last page from my artists book, where I included the cobblestone from Pankow, Berlin, and handwritten words which my classmates shared with me. Berlin, August 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/15160c71-8619-4105-b6fe-5013c05fbeed/IMG_6478.jpeg Writer - The Stumbling Stickers Project: “Memory, Resistance, and Care.” - Make it stand out At the part of the Berlin wall that was made into the East Side Gallery, Berlin, August 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/c206b237-d7bd-48a8-bebe-2da984602bc5/IMG_6546.jpeg Writer - The Stumbling Stickers Project: “Memory, Resistance, and Care.” - Make it stand out At an airport souvenir shop I learned more about the Buddy Bear project and The Art of Tolerance. There had been a Buddy Bear at my hotel’s reception! August 2025, Berlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/664fd8f7-34f0-4362-8b1f-248138339fc0/IMG_6524.jpeg Writer - The Stumbling Stickers Project: “Memory, Resistance, and Care.” - Make it stand out Buddy Bear at my hotel, Berlin, August 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/5f5deb00-0498-4ed5-922f-c8163058baea/IMG_5694.jpg Writer - The Stumbling Stickers Project: “Memory, Resistance, and Care.” - Make it stand out Feeling safe in community, Arlington, August 2025. https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/writer/again-about-kanyadaan-again monthly 0.5 2024-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1729737309826-HYWJ358NH5B4H1J7SLL9/tempImagehrV0UK.gif Writer - Again, about Kanyadaan, Again - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/writer/inspiration-is-everywhere monthly 0.5 2024-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/053934d2-a13d-49d2-ae73-2b1a77f41c7a/IMG_3885.JPG Writer - Inspiration is Everywhere! - Make it stand out Participant in workshop creates her own combination of colors, textures, and layers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/d2779b04-7214-4a5c-8ad5-b277bf0b2a8c/IMG_3888.JPG Writer - Inspiration is Everywhere! - Make it stand out Participants sign their books as they made them by hand, as did I! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/0c967890-98e9-4193-806e-90d1762aa4a4/ellie+and+a+parent.JPG Writer - Inspiration is Everywhere! - Make it stand out Ellie Canter, of Turning the Page, with a parent, Savoy Elementary School, Washington DC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1716767857355-VHXSVBW8K5AURH22F2VD/the+muse+and+the+book.JPG Writer - Inspiration is Everywhere! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1716767876131-PT2K72Z4LP6EJ0BFVNDW/photo+2.JPG Writer - Inspiration is Everywhere! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1716767958810-ZCNP30T7BUS6KHD7RI92/photo+4-2.JPG Writer - Inspiration is Everywhere! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1716767978436-CT6W1X5VKA491G9Z5TLZ/photo+2-1.JPG Writer - Inspiration is Everywhere! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1716768000949-G9WW36DAGVU4DLSU520U/photo+2-2.JPG Writer - Inspiration is Everywhere! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1716768015207-V1SWZYO4J7GPT77B2TF1/photo+3-1.JPG Writer - Inspiration is Everywhere! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1716768029191-DYAOWKH0NYA3LOA039QW/photo+3-2.JPG Writer - Inspiration is Everywhere! https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/writer/future-alexandria-legend monthly 0.5 2024-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/91018ce0-b0d9-4513-b099-8937bf59f884/photo+1-1.JPG Writer - “Future Alexandria Legend” - Make it stand out From left: Living Legends of Alexandria founder Nina Tiara, summer principal for Patrick Henry Elementary School Seazante Oliver, and book artist Sushmita Mazumdar at the Open House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/7006bc43-e99b-4bce-8375-bd23b04f4508/selfie+w+Lynwood+Campbell+and+Nina+Tisara.jpg Writer - “Future Alexandria Legend” - Make it stand out Selfie with Nina Tisara, left, and Lynnwood Campbell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/04742e21-9392-4095-ab64-c0b359565dd9/photo+2.JPG Writer - “Future Alexandria Legend” - Make it stand out The sample book I created from Lynnwood’s interview. We used the map of the City of Alexandria so when the students marked their school, their story was “on the map”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/7f7e93c9-1e3d-4598-85cf-659146682e00/FLA+books.jpg Writer - “Future Alexandria Legend” - Make it stand out The students made their own Handmade Storybooks based on their interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/087ca14d-c27c-41fd-b627-34cee5031040/FLA+kids.jpg Writer - “Future Alexandria Legend” - Make it stand out Those awesome t-shirts! What a great idea by ACPS staff. https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/writer/kanyadaan-again monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1442279a-06c6-48b1-8769-5ec3c2cec240/Mazumdar_Sushmita_Kanyadaan+Again_3.jpeg Writer - Kanyadaan, Again - Make it stand out Close-up of the poem sewn onto canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/b4280940-7e2d-44c8-9b65-cc5e113dc96b/tempImage1xvVDH.jpg Writer - Kanyadaan, Again - Make it stand out Sewing the printed image of Ganesha on handmade paper from old collection of wedding card samples I had brought to the US from India for my wedding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/328b8f74-0022-489e-b294-a9f66a2c093d/tempImageVdfflL.jpg Writer - Kanyadaan, Again - Make it stand out Sewing the poem onto painted and “soiled” canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/764b9c9b-e873-463f-8533-afbeca385a8b/tempImagejSoYY3.jpg Writer - Kanyadaan, Again - Make it stand out Keeping the pages centralized… with ribbon and extra needles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/6f21dbaa-37b4-4d63-adc2-b223a768e562/tempImageimjzzd.jpg Writer - Kanyadaan, Again - Make it stand out Needles do the work of holding the pages in place so I can sew from under the canvas (middle needle!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/abc74fb5-38c6-49af-9803-4bcfa3d26d53/tempImageSKEJ6o.jpg Writer - Kanyadaan, Again - Make it stand out Almost done! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/06be3661-4bd3-4d4b-acfe-78b0dd55202d/IMG_3173.jpeg Writer - Kanyadaan, Again - Make it stand out Celebrating with family and flag after the swearing in for my citizenship! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1712600685893-OOTEKBXQK2V4O0W0O2NQ/Mazumdar_Sushmita_Kanyadaan+Again_1.jpeg Writer - Kanyadaan, Again - Make it stand out The complete artwork https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/writer/cos monthly 0.5 2023-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1c7218d7-6680-4323-a110-516e21fc7a0e/Mazumdar_Garfield+ES+WashingtonDC.JPG Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out Students at Garfield Elementary School watch me create my Handmade Storybook Bhoot! Story of a Boy’s Fear, as I write a Hindi/Bengali word using Roman letters, with Chinese ink and brush, on French pastel paper. The story is all about a foreign grandfather visiting his American granddaughter and telling her a story from when he was 12. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/cdc65a9e-0303-43a0-9ecd-a549e1a9c75b/dc1968-journal.jpg Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out The first set of pages I designed that would help us create a City of Stories. This is one-sided. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/975c9c46-2ea3-4f04-8229-ca59af4f0189/red+book.JPG Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out A visitor responds to the poster with the red journal on it by adding her story to the page. This way everyone can read it when it is displayed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1251d2e9-f623-43fe-8424-f960b50f8c2e/IMG_0728.JPG Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out The City of Stories display at the National Building Museum, 2018. This way people could see the posters and when they read any of the stories, they could tell which story it was in response to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/62fc2035-9dcc-4c5d-9a68-9190ad4ff608/kid+on+shoulders.JPG Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out A child adds his story to the City of Stories installation, National Building Museum, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/83957087-b283-4ee7-97f0-6224a3747cc5/City+of+Stories+logo.jpg Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/6bc3f689-f580-44f9-8050-2188b77fd63f/all+titles.jpg Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out The final StoryPages with stories by the PAUSErs and art by me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/6559ba02-c33d-4094-9c9e-26f500af120e/IMG_6358.jpg Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out At the reception for the art show City of Stories, Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, 2019. Some of the PAUSErs who shared their stories pose with the artworks I created inspired by them. At the end of the project they took the art I made home as a small thank you for sharing their stories. From left, me, Eriko Matsuoka, Nancy Xiong, Hamed Farmand, Rana Jaafar Yaseen, Vanessa Vo, and Michael Swisher of Arlington Public Schools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/599ac59f-562d-4a07-86a4-7d79c5618158/IMG_6458.jpg Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out Some of the APS extended day staff pose with Michael in front of a section of the City of Stories installation where their books were displayed. A structure created for another project, HOME @Arlington, I repurposed these 5 panel folding screen to display the City of Stories. When full, it can display 420 books! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1fe77490-114c-4c1e-b136-872c08f0213e/IMG_7763.JPG Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out City of Stories at Kenmore Middle School, Arlington, VA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/147d13d3-5f19-466e-b701-bf8366a4237f/Sughra+and+Rana.jpg Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out PAUSErs Sughra Hussainy (left) an artist from Afghanistan, and Rana Jaafar Yaseen, a poet from Iraq, tour the exhibit with me and see the photos of Iranians protesting during the 70s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/fc9774e3-0c4b-413a-af6c-bb572b0ee5eb/CoS+Stories-MyIran-all+pages+revised+4.jpg Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out A two-sided StoryPage with a story by 13 year-old Elizabeth Isaac, and how she connected to a photo in the exhibit, Washington D.C. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/7a05fecb-1031-495c-b0ef-9df5daae0839/IMG_7541.jpeg Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out It was such an honor meeting the man behind printing the photos for the exhibit, Mark Fagerburg. Mark retired Aug 1 2021 as Digital imaging manager at the Library of Virginia, but he participated in the City of Stories project and shared his story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/94629562-7ab3-4959-ad08-1be8a1136d80/IMG_7558.jpeg Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out Above, LVA staff writes in the exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/bfc5b776-2238-4dbf-968a-1dcf6bd6ea55/IMG_7787.jpeg Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out Families make their City of Stories: Columbia Pike books, Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/74b8f4b8-b2c6-4533-9755-a5d1c3e8fd1c/IMG_7815.jpeg Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out A mother and son drove to Richmond from Arlington, where they live near Columbia Pike, to participate in the project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/ec947562-d9b4-4019-8c22-98a037f2526c/CoS+Story+Pages-+Columbia+Pike+_Page_1.jpg Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out Above, example of a one-sided StoryPage from City of Stories: Columbia Pike and how the public will see who connected with this visual and how. In the blank space below, people can write their own response if they were moved by this visual or the stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/98107f87-11fd-4016-8cf0-13519534d570/CoS-Coming+Back+Together+closed+book.jpg Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/23b38e0a-bccc-47c8-8cfd-5807570d9f44/CoS+full+open.jpg Writer - The Story of City of Stories - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/writer/follow-your-colors monthly 0.5 2022-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/c269dc9e-d419-4c46-bfd8-7eff61f10184/Mazumdar_Student+doing+Calligraphy.jpg Writer - Follow Your Colors - Make it stand out A student in my Indian Calligraphy & Culture class, in the session where we explored the connections between the Bangla and Tibetan script, Studio Arts, Smithsonian Associates, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/cf824656-36da-46fe-9a17-11ccea2f983a/Celebrating+Light+%26+Life-Diwali+at+the+Kennedy+Center+_+flyer.png Writer - Follow Your Colors - Make it stand out Rohith, bottom left on the event flyer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/5bb7594b-c87d-418d-936d-146935cc8722/IMG_8576.jpeg Writer - Follow Your Colors - Make it stand out From my Instagram @sushmita_artist_writer, Jan 12: When you work all morning and finally get to the right blue, just as you imagined Krishna’s skin to be!! But then you wait to see what happens next as you know acrylics dry darker… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/d39f3f1c-eb3b-4ce2-80da-7d3725955635/IMG_3106.PNG Writer - Follow Your Colors - Make it stand out Screen shot of Rohith’s Instagram Story where he is singing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/6ea93f08-54f0-499a-8739-e56075e62794/IMG_8586.jpeg Writer - Follow Your Colors - Make it stand out I love photographing my work when the paintings are wet. And I love the textures created from writing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/9962cdd9-cd2f-4b4a-969c-c5719aec28e6/IMG_8669.jpeg Writer - Follow Your Colors - Make it stand out My friend, mentor, and artist Mary Louise Marino visited the Studio to see the painting. https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/writer/writer-or-performer monthly 0.5 2022-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/30004c1e-12c0-401e-9ec0-4b86a8250d14/IMG_6626.jpeg Writer - Writer? Reader? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1637724505420-3DYS02MECQGWGOX90W3Y/IMG_0464.jpeg Writer - Writer? Reader? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1637724522709-P7X6E22T4P853Q0I9BO1/IMG_0468.jpeg Writer - Writer? Reader? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1637724580380-EOQSVN74IMK7F6674L27/IMG_6633.jpeg Writer - Writer? Reader? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1637724605335-71JPOPNGYCX5W3B60FN8/IMG_0488.jpeg Writer - Writer? Reader? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1637724636610-U6PR561K7GPADB7RVW8Y/IMG_6628.jpeg Writer - Writer? Reader? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1637724656018-OXUHJC0XZJ06ND2GF078/IMG_6630.jpeg Writer - Writer? Reader? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1637724690193-I6O3YXZR6BD2Q64C14GA/IMG_6632.jpeg Writer - Writer? Reader? https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/writer/tv-personality monthly 0.5 2021-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1631026316243-W3HBYKJK88BINWXSP29V/IC_Screen+Shot+2021-09-03+at+12.04.45+PM.png Writer - A TV personality and Me - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/writer/old-memory monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/writer/poetry monthly 0.5 2021-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1617894037728-7XGRYL3NN79UMQHX1WVU/FY16+Sushmita+Mazumdar+Artists+Book+Bazaar_Closed.jpg Writer - Poetry, April, and Me - Bazaar Bazaar, an artist’s book by Sushmita Mazumdar, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1619189202804-7XXQ5GXTVPO3HV8XB76N/OOLE_Bazaar+title+image+1.jpg Writer - Poetry, April, and Me - A Poetry Video In an amazing turn of events, mentor, and dear friend Mary Louise Marino created a poetry video about my artist’s book! In this 2021 avatar, the book and poem come alive in Objects of Our Longing Elsewhere: A Poetry Video by Mary Louise Marino with beautiful imagery and technique, her memories of travel, and more. "I realized I needed to express this poem for me, too – to express the feeling of elsewhere, of always searching, and how objects remind us of our longing." ~ Mary Louise Marino, 2021 Watch the just released poetry video here! Read the full essay here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1617894292945-QLQ0HIJ1KKKE369V0E5E/IMG_3159.jpeg Writer - Poetry, April, and Me - Who do we think is a Poet? I have always loved poetry but didn’t write. I hadn’t read much poetry since my school days when from 8-10th grade we read and studied so many poems in English and Hindi and also an entire play by Shakespeare. I started enjoying poetry again when I was reading to my children. My favorite children’s book about poetry is A River of Words by Jen Bryant illustrated by Melissa Sweet. When I read it and saw the illustrations, I knew I feel those same things, so maybe I too was a poet? I wanted to share what I saw and felt as a poet but I still didn’t write. Then one day I bought a poetry book for adults, Ballistics by Billy Collins. When I read it on a flight from Chicago to New Orleans, I immediately started to write. For the 2020 NaPoMo, another of my poems was shared by Katherine Young, Arlington’s first poet laureate. Monday Morning & Chai was one of two poems by me to be included in her anthology of poetry called Written in Arlington, an Arlington Arts grant project by Katherine. I think it started when I offered to design the cover of the book. As I worked on the cover I thought about which poems to send Katherine I also thought about who else could send in their poems. What about people who didn’t live in Arlington but wrote their poems at the Studio? Or wrote their poems to be in a Studio show? What about all the poets who had participated in the 2017 Studio project Thou Art: The Beauty of Identity? With an okay from the editor I started to remember whose names I should suggest. In the end there was Rana Jaafar Yaseen, an award-winning poet from Iraq with 7 books of poetry in Arabic. She would share a poem in English. Hanan Seid, an Arlington slam poet and the Studio’s first artist-in-residence. Sughra Hussainy, who wrote her first English poem at the Studio. And Kori Johnson, a seasoned poet who had 3 poems in the 2018 studio show at UUCA, Baked Clay/Endless Sky: Five Years of PAUSE. It is just so magical for me to see all these writers, and others whose work I love, all in the same book. 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The Studio was the only place where I had the opportunity to read them in public. Please pass on the information to the group that is interested in poetry.” I felt a warmth in my heart that those poems had been shared here, at Studio Pause, before we were all isolated away. I learned from reading his book that Faiz Ahmad Faiz is considered among the most popular modern poets of Urdu, the national language of Pakistan which is also spoken in India. The poems in this collection are inspired by his poetry. "Each poem in the collection provides an intertextual engagement with, and adaptation of, a specific Faiz poem. Altaf supplements each with a brief note, giving the context in which it spoke to him personally and led him to capture its essence in his own verse,” says a review by Muneeza Shamsie, the leading authority on literature in English from Pakistan, in Dawn on Feb 2, 2020. Yet, in his opening essay By Way of Explanation, he shares how poetry of resistance must be updated to stay current with the times, and laments the lack of present day poets writing in Urdu. “The absence of equally powerful poetry after Faiz underscores a problem peculiar to Urdu—that it is past its peak as a medium for the expression of lasting literary feelings.” He goes on to say, “But unlike, say, the Russian aristocracy that switched from French to the language of the people for good, the North Indian aristocracy abandoned the native language for English within a few generations.” He worries that as writers of such poetry don’t write in English either, this style of poetry will be lost. The essay is beautiful and absolutely heart-breaking. I learned a lot when I read the review of Transgressions that appeared in The Friday Times on Feb 7, 2020. It is by Dr. Amjad Hussain, professor emeritus of humanities, University of Toledo in Ohio. As I read more about how he was writing in response to the terrible incidents happening in universities in India in 2016, when authorities and students clash, I remembered that Anjum was an academic himself, having served as the Dean of the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. However, I had met him as a friend of a friend’s friend when he worked at the World Bank in Washington DC and had invited him to the Studio. It was interesting to me how as an administrator, his love for poetry let him relate to the students’ problems in a totally different way. Photo, left: Anjum Altaf reads at Mic-Less Night at Studio Pause. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1619053739401-OIDKZIZETMR1UB1JDLHO/DSC_0045.jpg Writer - Poetry, April, and Me - For Me and for You by Marga C. Fripp, January 15, 2007 Give artists a chance to succeed. Teach them the business of being fulfilled. Show them careers and new ways to live, Power their spirit, Give them belief. It’s hard when you’re new and no one knows you. Things can feel different, but ART can help you. Find ways to tell the story. You are EXCEPTIONAL! Don’t say you’re an artist, only occasional. Good people, come touch these creations. Their work is amazing, it exceeds expectations. Look at their talent, feel what’s inside. Stop judging the artists, it’s all in your mind. Open new doors, show possibilities. Forget being perfect, share responsibilities. Art is their job, their dream is the canvas. No matter where they come from Liberia or Kansas. We’re here to EMPOWER and give all a voice. We bring the world together it’s all about choice. Believe in yourself, that’s all we can do. 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The story of this artwork however, started on the Metro some years ago, as I took the Blue Line to the Freer and Sackler Gallery of Art, as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art was called back then. My commute to docent training on Wednesdays usually included reading or sketching. This time, sketching quickly turned to writing as what the cool Wall Street-type guy in the pinstriped suit was saying on his cellphone caught my attention. Photo: Derailment on the Blue Line, by Sushmita Mazumdar, mixed media on canvas, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1613578589374-LEHFWWMNXTFWBATYZGZB/from+one+to+many-small.jpg Writer - From One to Many - From One to Many: Collaboration with Myself from 5 Years Ago by Sushmita Mazumdar, Mixed media on canvas, 2015. 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To me and to others. But then it becomes different when we share what it means to us. That’s when the community gets to know how different yet similar we all are!” Left: Sushmita in her Studio, Studio PAUSE, working with brush and Chinese ink and creating her Bhoot! - Story of a Boy’s Fear books, 2016. Photo by Yuri Long https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/artist/bts monthly 0.5 2021-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1609713714216-958ZGRWGXV63223R2LTJ/At+Art+league+Gallery+with+Kat+cropped.jpeg Artist - Before The Studio - Monsoon Windows Mixed media on paper, 2012. In the collection of Ketan Dholakia and Shalini Razdan. My first artwork to be framed for a show, Monsoon Windows was created in 2012 and accepted into a show at The Art League, in Alexandria VA. In this photo I stand with my dear friend and mentor, artist Kathleen James Avila who came to see it. This was also the first artwork in which I found Devanagari script appear in the form of my favorite song lyrics from Hindi movies! The song is Barso Re Megha Megha, from the movie Guru. You can watch the video here! BUY the print. Print Size: 16 x 20 (matted 20 x 24 in) : $ 140.00 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1609714218477-9IJCFRJUJW47Q6Z2RGBG/Sush+with+Lost+%26+Found+Painting.jpg Artist - Before The Studio - Lost & Found mixed media on paper, 2012. In a private collection. I painted this artwork inspired by the powerful ink brushstrokes of Japanese paintings I have studied and given tours of in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, where I have been a docent since the year 2000. I also tried out an old Japanese technique of embossing from the back certain parts of the painting where there was metallic paint, the raised surface glimmering as they caught the light. My teacher, Marsha Semmel, and the class seemed to like it. That day after class I took it to the studio. There I printed out my poem Lost & Found on my colorful collection of Korean Hanji paper and collaged it on to look like a city skyline. When I took it back the class was surprised! I shared a studio space at Convergence, Alexandria, in those days and studio mate Rusty told me I must join Arlington Artists Alliance, where he was a member. So in Jan 2013 I joined and entered this artwork, fresh from my solo show, in their show Walk the Line. Soon I heard that it won the Best in Show award! In March that year it hung at Cassat’s in Arlington (photo, left) and then it was sold! When the show came down my husband and I wrapped it up and drove it to an address in Falls Church. I have never seen it since. BUY the print. Print Size: 16 x 20 (matted 20 x 24 in) : $ 140.00 https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/artist/shakil monthly 0.5 2021-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1609542924953-E5JDFKCVF0WYH3RLOA7F/Final+Green.jpg Artist - Song & Dance: A Collaboration between Nostalgia and the Pandemic, 2020 - Tere Naam se Shuru/Starts with Your Name Water-soluble graphite and gold acrylic paint on handmade paper from Samarkand, UZ. This artwork celebrates an old song which wishes for a love that has a long life, starting with a name and ending at the same name. I decided to use the handmade paper from Samarkand which I brought back from my trip in 2018 because Shakil had asked me to bring him a traditional Uzbek cap from the trip and when he came to pick that up I had shown him the paper as well. And of course, he had loved it. The story of the paper is amazing too. It was made at the same place where it had all started a thousand years ago! It was perfect for this song, I realize now. BUY Size: 23” H x 9” W Materials: Water-soluble graphite and gold acrylic paint on handmade paper Unframed Price: $ 220.00 SOLD! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1609543155683-ULHH2CJLPXYIINPN1ZOF/FINal+Red.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1609543276855-4CP4WDKUINKHTCP0X7HA/Final+blue.jpg Artist - Song & Dance: A Collaboration between Nostalgia and the Pandemic, 2020 - Tum to thehre Pardesi/You are after all a Foreigner Water-soluble graphite and gold acrylic paint on handmade paper from Mumbai, India. “Okay we worked with the greats, and today I am thinking of a local guy,” Shakil wrote. He shared the song of a one-hit-wonder from his neighborhood. I looked for the video to watch/listen to it so I could draw the lyrics (what a funny phrase!) but I found so many versions I couldn’t tell the actual one. Shakil sent me the original but wow, it was something to see how many people had recorded their own versions of this song, which is the accusation of a man who knows the foreigner cannot be trusted to stay. Turns out this paper, also from Chimanlal’s in Bombay, is Shakil’s favorite color! BUY Size: 23” H x 9” W Materials: Water-soluble graphite and gold acrylic paint on handmade paper Unframed Price: $220.00 https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/artist/storyprints monthly 0.5 2021-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1613527718961-V770YQPTPH9GM83IJEGA/Kaipoche+print+on+stand.gif Artist - StoryPrints https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1609542924953-E5JDFKCVF0WYH3RLOA7F/Final+Green.jpg Artist - StoryPrints - Tere Naam se Shuru/Starts with Your Name Water-soluble graphite and gold acrylic paint on handmade paper from Samarkand, UZ. This artwork celebrates an old song which wishes for a love that has a long life, starting with a name and ending at the same name. I decided to use the handmade paper from Samarkand which I brought back from my trip in 2018 because Shakil had asked me to bring him a traditional Uzbek cap from the trip and when he came to pick that up I had shown him the paper as well. And of course, he had loved it. The story of the paper is amazing too. It was made at the same place where it had all started a thousand years ago! It was perfect for this song, I realize now. Read the story here! BUY Size: 23” H x 9” W Materials: Water-soluble graphite and gold acrylic paint on handmade paper Unframed Price: $ 220.00 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1609543155683-ULHH2CJLPXYIINPN1ZOF/FINal+Red.jpg Artist - StoryPrints - Patthar ki Tarah/Like Stone Water-soluble graphite, red food color, and gold acrylic paint on paper This artwork mixes the lament of the singer who accuses the big city for turning a man’s heart into lifeless stone with the celebration of gold-like Urdu poetry. I made the red circles with a pebble and food coloring and then made the expressive calligraphy in graphite which also comes from the earth. The story of the paper is amazing too. I first started on a deeper red paper, bought from the big city where I went to art school. It’s the big city in the song too and the shop where I bought this paper, Chimanlal’s, is right there where the taxi is in the film when this song happens. But I messed that one up and the red was too deep for the red circles I added. So I pulled out another sheet… turned it over to the orange-red side, and wrote there! BUY Size: 23” H x 9” W Materials: Water-soluble graphite and gold acrylic paint on handmade paper Unframed Price: $220.00 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1609543276855-4CP4WDKUINKHTCP0X7HA/Final+blue.jpg Artist - StoryPrints - Tum to thehre Pardesi/You are after all a Foreigner Water-soluble graphite and gold acrylic paint on handmade paper from Mumbai, India. “Okay we worked with the greats, and today I am thinking of a local guy,” Shakil wrote. He shared the song of a one-hit-wonder from his neighborhood. I looked for the video to watch/listen to it so I could draw the lyrics (what a funny phrase!) but I found so many versions I couldn’t tell the actual one. Shakil sent me the original but wow, it was something to see how many people had recorded their own versions of this song, which is the accusation of a man who knows the foreigner cannot be trusted to stay. Turns out this paper, also from Chimanlal’s in Bombay, is Shakil’s favorite color! BUY Size: 23” H x 9” W Materials: Water-soluble graphite and gold acrylic paint on handmade paper Unframed Price: $220.00 https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/artist/missingpresent monthly 0.5 2026-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1609532068468-RBS7Q3FUNU9D6DE161QL/Something+is+Missing%3APresent_Red.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1609533482918-5DXHY4EBBEZRG61HWLBP/Mazumdar_WordsToArt2020_Week2_Acceptance.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1609778681587-VX6FTWKPXT5WD6I9RHY1/Something+is+Missing%3APresent_orange_web.gif https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/c94638af-01f0-4dac-b017-bd026444bc34/IMG_7485.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/d07365c1-f5ac-490a-8f77-645e2b36a666/Pink+final.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/5febc3f0-844a-4429-a1bd-e4962db596b2/2022+The+heck+with+it+all+bird+completes+yellow.jpg https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/artist/bazaar monthly 0.5 2023-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1619116946876-9O2C6CC18G1AHN41ZQZ6/FY16+Sushmita+Mazumdar+Artists+Book+Bazaar_Closed.jpg Artist - Bazaar, 2012 - Dreams. A Poem. An Artist’s Book. A Project. And a Poetry Video! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1619055459150-68M72S4XC3XSKNN9FAE6/Screen+Shot+2021-04-21+at+9.32.25+PM.png Artist - Bazaar, 2012 For this year's National Poetry Month, I am so honored to share my poem, Bazaar, as part of Virginia poet laureate Luisa A. Igloria’s Poem-A-Day Virginia project. To be there with so many great and notable poets is something because so many people work in the creative fields, but we never hear about it. I know this well from my work at the Studio. To intentionally bring diverse voices out into the open is important work as we learn many new things about people's lives, their thoughts, and even dreams. Some responses I got from sharing this on social media: CM: That's great Sush! Congrats! Sush: Thanks! This poem was critiqued at Arlington Writer’s Group and the artist’s book was in my 2012 solo show. Maybe you and MK remember it. MK: I totally remember it! And I still like it! ….. SDR [from Mumbai, India]: So good, Sush! Sent a shiver down my spine to think this could actually have been experienced by you - not getting the beads you wanted + missing your flight. (I also admit it’s going to be my nightmare now, figuring out where you were in the first place that taking a left would have taken you to Linking Road ) Sush: I love this comment, fellow Bambaiya! When you are going round and round you could land up anywhere! Especially in dreams But seriously, it’s a very real thing waking up in the middle of the night trying to remember the name of the street back home where your atm was. And finding there is no one to ask and your husband can’t help because he is from here SDR: I could feel that from the words of your poem !! But that’s probably why the God has kept K [her brother] close by. Aadhi raat ko bhi phone karke street ka naam poochne ka KD: [her brother] SD: If she is looking for a bazaar on Linking Road, she is making a left turn from Khar Telephone Exchange at the crossroads with Satguru’s. If there is no bazaar it means the mooncipalty truck was there a few minutes ago and all those bazaru guys have fled. Sush: You are welcome SDR: That’s exactly what I was thinking, Khar Telephone Exchange Lane. The municipality truck bit was hilarious, don’t know how I didn’t think of it esp when we have that tamasha just under my building every Tuesday !! Sush: KD arrey baba I go down my street and turn left to come to Linking Road at Standard Chartered bank (ANZ). Then I turn right and go all the way to Bandra. Barobar na? …. TLJ: I love it, Sush! Your words brought me right to that search for the bazaar. GP: Superb!! Congrats! I felt like I was living this dream. Hope to reconnect once I am back. In India until April 20. Take care MG: I love your poem, mostly because I can see and feel and be in your dream with you, so different from the experience of a dream narrative telling - which is maybe what you are referring to when you write 'When I make it into art and share, people connect.' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1619117564774-7WP4U5ZB1M8AHL4MAIWJ/OOLE_Bazaar+title+image+1.png Artist - Bazaar, 2012 - Objects of Our Longing Elsewhere a poetry video by Mary Louise Marino, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1619117817976-PPDNVIEMDW70KBKC06SD/Sush+and+LouLou.JPG Artist - Bazaar, 2012 - What she created in this poetry video is a startling glimpse into my dreams, like she saw what I saw! It was crazy, actually. Like she knew which of my 1000s of photos of that home were the exact ones to include and mix with photos of my jewelry I had bunched up and stuffed in boxes at home here. Even editing the audio of the autowalla and me--how did she know this was the perfect spot? How can it be? Of course it can be! What did I think LouLou is capable of as an amazingly creative soul who knows me well? She is capable of making a dream come true, of this. What a thing this is, to show me how we can share it with so many others so they can connect with it in some way. Even copies of my book can’t do that. https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/artist/dream-room monthly 0.5 2021-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1613684154606-6R7PYBLW3SQMAMT0J3EI/box.JPG Artist - Dream Room, 2016 1. The package with the box arrives! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1613684238280-KGOHRCQ5AH3178MTZTQF/photo+2-5.JPG Artist - Dream Room, 2016 2. The package sat there for awhile. Then I opened it. The Box and Me! I love boxes but here I was freaking out. What would I put in the box? I don't work in sculpture. I just work with papers and words and color... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1613684315519-YOB2FVG79YULH3XNTKPR/cloud+rug.JPG Artist - Dream Room, 2016 3. It's to be my dream room... What is my dream room? Where is it? Cloud rug... hmmm. Imagine, dream, remember... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1613684976716-MX8SQ856EJNMA85AC8NF/photo+3-4.JPG Artist - Dream Room, 2016 4. After I was done freaking out about what I didn't know, like what to do with boxes, I looked at what I already had all around me at the Studio. Papers, markers to write with, and handmade books which held stories. And all sorts of other stuff. Gorgeous stuff. My stuff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1613684613776-QJHDXMKR5KR765NNNA6C/photo+3-2.JPG Artist - Dream Room, 2016 5. It was a room "back home". Stories were a treasure I had left behind. I remember as I made this my neighbor back home passed away. He was a photographer and my dear friend's father. He had documented our childhood in his photos. Where was all that now? I know many had been lost over the years to floods during monsoons. I added the treasure box. That's where I would store stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1613685527708-3YR7UMTE5BN348JR3F3Q/photo+3.JPG Artist - Dream Room, 2016 6. I notice now that windows, in 3D, often appear in my artworks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1613684917561-V70X656FVG6E0MC0WG54/photo+5-4.JPG Artist - Dream Room, 2016 8. The ceiling of the night sky, full of stars, made from scraps of my cover for Little Lantern and the Dark and Moonless Night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1613685091807-Z0DZNCGJIRRDK5VZW6LA/photo+5.JPG Artist - Dream Room, 2016 9. All done! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1613684868830-0HQDOOSIG1HW18AHPJG9/photo+3-3.JPG Artist - Dream Room, 2016 7. The tiny door!!!! Like in Coraline! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1613685590026-N13A98GUYUIIGVVETUX8/photo+5-4.JPG Artist - Dream Room, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1613685973920-R3OO4FS8ZXKQLZWCP590/NBM+Flikr+photo.jpg Artist - Dream Room, 2016 10. The final installation shot, with the little light in the ceiling and all. Check out the other Dream Rooms here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/1613686063689-1RZJV15GHLABJMO1PBJW/Dream+Home+image.JPG Artist - Dream Room, 2016 11. 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In community book making sessions people learned how to make the books, for themselves, and for others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/fa8852fa-3369-4ad8-9423-609750b2b1e4/IMG_8068.jpeg Handmade Storybooks - We PAUSED! Delivering a copy of the book to each of 640 apartments at the Gates of Ballston apartment complex https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/handmadestorybooks/homework monthly 0.5 2025-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/39188b3a-b96e-4e2e-9dcc-1367cd35eafb/Mazumdar_homework1.jpg Handmade Storybooks - Homework It was fun designing the packaging for this book! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/7463fe68-daf1-4eac-9e26-eab2f1f39459/Mazumdar_Homework_book.jpg Handmade Storybooks - Homework An unbound book in a matchbox https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/handmadestorybooks/adventures monthly 0.5 2025-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/15968015-593e-4b5c-8e3f-5b0d7edee43d/Kairis_book.jpg Handmade Storybooks - Adventures of a Big City Girl Kairis! Adventures of Maya, the Big City Girl, 2007. In this early version of the storybook in the series, the Big City Girl sees her first kalboishaki, or summer storm, and how it knocks down kairis, the yummy raw green mangoes, from the trees in Jabalpur, India, where is she visiting her cousins for summer holidays. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/d645d607-436a-46f1-ac63-6fbb4a6c3974/Bandar.jpg Handmade Storybooks - Adventures of a Big City Girl Bandar! Adventures of Maya the Big City Girl. In this story she meets bandar, or monkeys, who look so cute as the train stops at Haridwar railway station! But it would be the day the monkeys came for the bananas when she would see another side of them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/78a49b72-4dc3-4fd3-b983-4cff200bea86/Haathi+Book.JPG Handmade Storybooks - Adventures of a Big City Girl Haathi! Adventures of Maya the Big City Girl. We follow the Big City Girl traveling in the red Maruti, when she sees her first wild elephants at Gorumara National Park, in West Bengal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/8b53aa9a-0b32-4509-b82a-a2fa2044a7ca/Sharmila+with+Gaai.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/7a7d60ea-f114-409d-bb82-54300b0a204e/with+Gaai+at+WF.JPG https://www.sushmitamazumdar.com/handmadestorybooks/abundance monthly 0.5 2025-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebaa5d998fbc259479e8fa1/8917bcfe-4d50-48a8-b2c4-cdf01431153e/IMG_0718.jpeg Handmade Storybooks - Abundance is Bright Some of the Studio PAUSE community. 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