Today we’d like to introduce you to Sudipta Mukherjee
Hi Sudipta, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I am a seeker and a sucker, of truth, of happiness. Like most people walking the earth, I am a work in progress. And I am enjoying it, this journey that is so spectacularly beautiful.
If you would want to know more about my writing life, do visit my website, AuthorSudipta.com, particularly the page, Walk The Path. You won’t be disappointed, I assure you. And if you want to know more about my traveling life, join me on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/AuthorSudipta/#). If you are an explorer or a voyager, you will love it.
If there is a place where I desire to live, forever if there is one, it is in your mind. In that abode, I want to last and last, long after my physical self is obliterated to the dust,
Dear Readers, you are the reason I am.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
No road is a smooth one. No journey is all along hassle-free. Not for me. Not for anybody. Never! Each ride, every journey is a bumpy ride, full of ups and downs, sharp turns, dangerous edges, rough corners, deadly hairpin bends, and a million other seen and unforeseen challenges. Each life brings with it, its own kind of struggles. This is precisely the reason why each story is unique.
What I have learned in the haul of my life, is to see every struggle as an opportunity to grow, both inwardly and outwardly, spiritually. Challenges and obstacles shape you into something beautiful, and profound. It adds meaning to your journey in a curious way. It helps you grow. Had there been no struggles, there would have been no opportunity for growth, both professionally and personally.
It’s not that I have not met any challenges. It’s just that I have accepted them, embraced them not as challenges but as opportunities, learned from them or my experiences dealing with them, and when the time came, I forgot about them. That’s life for me. Traveling with joy, but most importantly, traveling baggage-free.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I am a passionate writer. Having said that I would also like to highlight that I don’t write 24/7, not now, not anymore. Of course, there was a time when I used to write eighteen hours a day, but that was some time back.
I am a traveler by fascination. Traveling makes me more open to the world and its infinite possibilities. Traveling makes me embrace the world with its myriad differences. Traveling is joy, and fun, and happiness, and one hundred and twenty-eight good things put together. It teaches me things that I usually don’t find in books. And innumerable they are, trust me. I have a huge bucket list which I am consistently working on to tick. I think I need quite a bit of time, to tick all of them off. Wish me luck!
I am an avid reader. This is something that delights me to no end. When I am not writing, I am reading. For me, reading is the bread I survive on. Take the book away from me, and I will die, out of sheer boredom if nothing else.
I work, part-time for now. I am currently working with kids. It is fun to be around those little pieces of wonder. I wish I had their energy so that I could do all those things that I keep deferring due to tiredness. Life could be tiring at times!
I paint; not that I am a master at it. No, not yet. I trust someday I will. Painting fills my mind with hope and colors. It boosts my creative life.
I am good at cooking. Cooking is an art that I love to indulge in with all my sincerity. Exploring cuisines of the world!
What am I most proud of? Well, I have been able to retain a child-like simplicity within me, I have kept myself open, and am not a closed-up individual. I have empathy and compassion as my core, and I operate from there, mostly. I (and perhaps you too) have lived in this world long enough to realize that this is something to be proud of.
I believe that every individual is unique in his or her way. So, essentially we are all apart in some sense. But again, if you really want to know, what I feel I have different in me, it’s my love for solitude. I have embraced solitude the way one accepts a partner. With deliberation and without regret. I am a solitary bird. And it’s liberating, I tell you.
How do you think about luck?
I don’t believe in the concept of “luck”. Yes, there is karma. But you create karma, through your work and life, through your thoughts. You don’t get karma dropped on your head, or in your life, from heaven. You create karma in the way you live and do things. Everybody has his way of creating karma, and this is something that makes us different, that makes our paths different. Every day is an opportunity. You have to embrace it with openness and work towards your goal, whatever that is. One day at a time. One step at a time. All you have to do is focus on your journey, enjoy it, whatever that is, and not feel bogged down by it. You have to reach your destination, better smile and reach, and keep smiling all the way along, rather than crying and whining about your struggles and obstacles. Because complaining and whining gives you nothing. It only takes the joy out of your ride. Consistent hard work will show results. Some day. One day. Now that karma or “luck” whatever you call it.
‘Good’ or ‘bad’ are perspectives. They essentially don’t mean anything. It is the way you look at a thing. I believe there is not one thing in this world that is entirely good or entirely bad. People and things are the way they are. They are neither good nor bad.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://authorsudipta.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/AuthorSudipta/#
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sudipta.bhattacharyamukherjee/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudiptabhattacharya/
- Twitter: https://x.com/AuthorSudipta
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6VOfFaYgfydUi021ZQdLbA
Image Credits
Image no 1: Picture taken by Harsh Chauhan,
Image no 2: Picture taken by Yash Vyas.
The rest are all taken by random people during my explorations and travels.
