Of Age and Agelessness

This is a delightful collection of twenty-four poems written by a normal yet ‘phenomenal woman’ who expresses with exquisite sensitivity the joys, sorrows, gains, losses, achievements and regrets of her life as a professional teacher, wife, mother, daughter and daughter-in-law.

Dr. MITA BOSE, Retd. Associate Professor of English, IP College, Delhi University

Usha Diptivilasa recreates a world that most of us have left behind, but all of us yearn to go back to. You can read these poems anytime, be it a summer afternoon or a winter night. They make you feel contemplative and leave you enhanced. There’s a clarity of vision in these poems.

AVIJIT GHOSH, Sr. Editor, The Times of India


The ditties hummed in this book capture the flavour of daily experiences, even as the poet pens to capture word-buds waiting to sprout. Imagery flows freely from infinite passion for the depth of experience and feeling. The fine impress of the pressed dandelion, scramble to perfection in the little blue book, farewells on divergent tracks: these and other vignettes form the spectrum of thought. The volume tries to fathom the range of emotions along the journey of time from dawn to dusk of life.