This section brings together articles, reflections, memoirs, recollections, and other writings connected to the life and memory of Swapna Dutta. The collection includes personal narratives, archival material, translated texts, and essays written across different periods.
Some writings are intimate and autobiographical in nature, while others attempt to place individual experiences within wider emotional, social, and historical contexts. Together, these articles form an evolving archive of remembrance.
List of articles
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Swapna Dutta, my Mother: First Chapter
The first chapter in a series of reflections and recollections about Swapna Dutta.
Written on: 1 August 2025 -
Swapna Dutta, my Mother: Chapter Two
Reflections on Love, memory, grief, and the final days of Swapna Dutta.
Written on: 4 August 2025 -
Swapna Dutta, My Mother: Third Chapter
The third chapter of writings on memory, grief, belief, ritual, and the death of Swapna Dutta.
Written on: 6 August 2025 -
Swapna Dutta, My Mother: Third Chapter (Addendum)
An addendum to the third chapter reflecting on mourning rituals, belief, grief, curiosity, and remembrance after the death of Swapna Dutta.
Written on: 7 August 2025 -
Swapna Dutta, my Mother: Chapter Four, Part I
First part of the fourth chapter exploring Śrāddha rituals, the three debts, the Garuḍa Purāṇa's account of the soul's journey, and the importance of sincerity in ancestral rites.
Written on: 10 August 2025 -
Swapna Dutta, My Mother: Fourth Chapter, Part II — The Ghāṭkāj Ceremony
Second part of the fourth chapter detailing the Ghāṭkāj (ritualistic water rites) ceremony performed for Swapna Dutta at Viveknagar Jheel, including piṇḍadāna, mantras, and the significance of the rites.
Written on: 13 August 2025 -
Swapna Dutta, My Mother: Fourth Chapter, Part III — The Day of Śrāddha
Third part of the fourth chapter detailing the Śrāddha ceremony day for Swapna Dutta at Viveknagar Kali Temple, including Praṇām, Ṣoḍaśa Dāna offerings, Piṇḍadāna, Bhagavad Gītā recitation, and tributes from relatives.
Written on: 15 August 2025 -
Swapna Dutta, My Mother: Fifth Chapter
Fifth Chapter — about the shortages of time, sympathy, attention, and Love, and remembrance of Swapna Dutta.
Written on: 20 August 2025 -
Swapna Dutta, My Mother: Sixth Chapter
Sixth Chapter — reflections on life as burden, commodification of essentials, absence of empathy, and remembrance of Swapna Dutta with Sahir Ludhianvi's ghazal.
Written on: 29 August 2025 -
Swapna Dutta, My Mother: Seventh Chapter, Part I — The Ancestral House
Part I of Chapter 7 — memories of 29 Mahanirban Math Road, the ancestral house in Kolkata, family history from electoral rolls (1956, 1961), and stories of uncles and aunts including Shyamal Dutta who named me Tito.
Written on: 2 September 2025