Anupol is a Bengali word meaning a brief span of time. It is pronounced Aw—(as in occupation) noo (as in nook)—Paul. The word appears in the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore, whose writing first revealed how much a single moment can contain.
This website is a home for my essays and other literary work.
I write about the places where certainty begins to fray: memory, time, loss, faith, return, and the ordinary moments that quietly shape a life. My interest is less in offering answers than in paying close attention to the world as it is—complex, unfinished, and often beyond our complete understanding.
These pieces are written slowly. They begin with something small—a photograph, a conversation, a call to prayer, a tree at sunrise—and follow it until it opens onto larger questions. If there is a thread running through them, it is the belief that careful observation can reveal what explanation often cannot.
Many of these essays have been written more than once. Not because they were unfinished, but because I was. I have learned not to trust the first encounter with a memory. The photograph waits. The afternoon is gone. Yet both become capable of saying something new. Returning is not repetition. It is another way of seeing.
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