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17/12/2025

Writing a novel is therapeutic.

Your characters heal and transform you with every word you write, rewrite, and edit.

You end up falling hopelessly in love with the volatile, yet beautiful world you build and the flawed, yet utterly loveable characters you create.

Writing becomes an obsession, a silent addiction nobody notices.

As you delve deeper into your world and get emotionally attached to your flawed characters, you wonder why the real world is so suffocatingly boring when compared to the vibrant, colorful, ever-changing, exciting, yet predictable world of your imagination.

08/09/2025

I published the first chapter, "The Married Daughte,r" on Wattpad on May 27, 2025, and I am now at Chapter 17. Unlike poems, novels take such a long time to write.

This novel (a novella, actually) has become a passion project, delving into family drama, realistic romance, and those hilariously complicated in-law dynamics.

Catch up on all the chaos, especially the latest Chapter 17, "The Daughter Loses Her Temper Again."

Read "The Married Daughter" from the start here:
🔗https://www.wattpad.com/story/394898811-the-married-daughter

21/08/2025

While browsing old copies of Udev at the Konkani Institute of St. Aloysius College, Mangalore, I came across a poem by Mrs. Stella Dcosta, who writes under the pseudonym Nandini.

Click the link below to read it now:

https://dwanderingpen.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/drops_nandini/

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19/08/2025

Chafra wrote editorials, short stories, short essays, and poems in his daughter Sonia Dcosta's name for the children's section of Udev.

Click the link below to read them now:

https://dwanderingpen.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/childrens_poetry_chafra/

18/08/2025

Visit the Sopo at Wandering Pen to read "ಪಾವ್ಸಾಂತ್ ಸಾಸ್," (Dance in the Rain), my first Konkani short story under the pseudonym, Saraswati.

An eccentric wealthy middle-aged man has some simple desires. Find out what they are:

https://dwanderingpen.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/%e0%b2%aa%e0%b2%be%e0%b2%b5%e0%b3%8d%e0%b2%b8%e0%b2%be%e0%b2%82%e0%b2%a4%e0%b3%8d-%e0%b2%a8%e0%b2%be%e0%b2%9a%e0%b3%8d/

17/08/2025

Read a review of Chafra's poem "ಕಾಳ್ಜಾಂತ್ ದವರ್" (Keep Me In Your Heart) in the Discovering Chafra section of Wandering Pen.

“ಕಾಳ್ಜಾಂತ್ ದವರ್” (Keep Me In Your Heart) is a moving blend of compassion, rebellion, philosophy, and courage. It is a beautiful piece of literature that eliminates the burden of grief a…

15/08/2025

Good news! The new bilingual Wandering Pen is ready.

My ongoing Discovering Chafra Project has found its new home on the Wandering Pen Blog!

This means that Wandering Pen is now a bigger and more vibrant bilingual space, where Konkani and English co-exist in peace and harmony.

I have already begun the task of integrating content on Chafra and the Dcosta family, including digitized versions of Chafra's and Nandini's books and Konkani journals (only those edited by Chafra), right here.

You will find:

1. My posts on fiction writing and accounts of my ever-evolving journey as a writer
2. Creative writings of the Dcosta family (Chafra, Nandini, Vinod, and Saraswati)
3. A growing library of digitized Konkani journals (only those edited by Chafra) and published works of Nandini and Chafra
4. Updates on the Discovering Chafra project

This is a labor of love and a work in progress, and I'm so excited to share every step of the journey with you. Thank you for your support and encouraging presence.

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