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Date: 02 December 2025

Evenings remind us of something we often lose during the day — softness. The world pushes, pulls, demands, edits, measures. But nightfall brings back the gentler parts of us: the unhurried thoughts, the quiet hopes, the small forgivenesses we owe ourselves. There is comfort in the way darkness gathers without asking for perfection. It simply lets us rest. As the sky dims, we remember that even strong people need softness, even brave people need pauses, and even busy hearts need a quiet corner to breathe. In that small pause, name one thing you did well today and let it live in you through the night. Make tonight a deliberate end: turn off the small anxieties, breathe slower, and keep only the calm that helps you rise kinder tomorrow.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati , Assam , India
Instagram@rajatchandrasarmah5
youtube@ conversewithasmile .

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Date: 02 December 2025

Ask any Jamaican and they will tell you that Blue Mountain Coffee is not merely a crop — it is a living heritage. Grown on the cool, misty slopes of the Blue Mountains, these beans are tended by hands that know the land by memory. The farms are small, the harvests deliberate, and the process honors patience: shade-grown trees, slow ripening, careful selection.

The taste is shaped by volcanic soil and cooled by cloud, and in every cup there is a story of families who rise before dawn to tend rows like prayers. For Jamaicans, this coffee is cultural inheritance rather than a mere export: it embodies craftsmanship, restraint, and a refusal to rush excellence. Beyond commerce, it is a source of communal pride: festivals, local markets, and the quiet rituals of pouring are ways a people celebrate what they grow. Each harvest is a chapter in a shared history, and every exported bag carries the island’s name with a kind of humble dignity.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati , Assam , India
Instagram@rajatchandrasarmah5
youtube@ conversewithasmile .

Feeling humbled and strangely moved to see my name on the list of awardees for the Bharat Kavi Ratna Award – Session 2 by Blue Star Publication. It is one of the toughest poetry competitions I have known, and to find my name placed among so many powerful voices feels like a quiet moment I will carry for a long time.

RAJAT Chandra Sarmah

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Date: 02 December 2025

Some mornings arrive without fanfare. No bright revelation, no sudden clarity — only a slow clearing inside the mind that arrives like breath. These quiet beginnings shape us more than the dramatic ones because they teach resilience in small measures. When the world asks for urgency, the gentle mornings remind us to move with care. There is a steadiness in doing the ordinary well: making tea with attention, stepping outside to feel the air, naming one thing you will try to protect today. Small commitments kept quietly are the scaffolding of a meaningful life. Begin with softness; carry that tone forward, and the day will answer in kind.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati , Assam , India
Instagram@rajatchandrasarmah5
youtube@ conversewithasmile .

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Date: 1 December 2025

Some evenings do not bring closure.
They simply bring pause.
Today felt like one of those days—where the hours moved, but the mind stayed a step behind.

So instead of forcing the day to make sense, I let the evening stand still. I watched the sky fade—not dramatically, just gradually, like a curtain being lowered. Somewhere, a child laughed; somewhere, traffic slowed; somewhere, someone finally took a deep breath they had been holding since morning.

Maybe that’s all an evening needs to be:
a reminder that stopping is also part of living.

If your day was heavy, let the night carry the rest.
If your day was kind, hold it gently.
And if nothing made sense, it’s okay—
some days are meant only to pass,
not to explain.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
Instagram: rajatchandrasarmah5
YouTube: Converse With A Smile

Where Silence Heals
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Date: 1 December 2025

There are countries where culture is felt in festivals, food, or architecture.
But in Finland, culture lives inside a small wooden room warmed by stones—
the sauna.
For Finns, it is not luxury. It is identity. Almost every house, lakeside cabin, and even office building has one. More than five million people and over three million saunas.

Sauna is where families talk, where friends sit without pretense, where the mind drops its noise. The heater warms the stones, water sizzles, steam rises—
and slowly everything unnecessary melts away.

Inside the sauna, people are equal—rank disappears, titles dissolve. Here, silence is not awkward; it is respected. When Finns say, “Sauna is the poor man’s pharmacy,” they mean it literally. Generations have come here to clear the body and calm the spirit.

And then comes my favourite part—stepping out into cold air, sometimes straight into snow. Skin tingles, lungs open, and suddenly the world feels new.

Finland may be a small nation, but in its sauna culture lives a wisdom the world can borrow:
warmth heals, silence repairs, and slowing down is not weakness—it is strength.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
Instagram: rajatchandrasarmah5
YouTube: Converse With A Smile

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Date: 1 December 2025

Some mornings arrive quietly, not with alarms or routines, but with a strange sense of clarity—like someone tapping your shoulder gently and saying, today, start differently.
Today felt like that.
No rush, no hurry—just a soft awareness that the world is waking up with you, not ahead of you.

A bird outside my window gave a small trill, not a song, just a hint that the day is breathing. Somewhere across continents, people begin their day in their own rhythm—some with cold winds, some with warm kitchens, some with silence.

Wherever you are, may this morning bring you a light that doesn’t blind but guides. A beginning that doesn’t push but nudges.
A gentle start—just enough to remind you that you are still becoming.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
Instagram: rajatchandrasarmah5
YouTube: Converse With A Smile

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Date: 30/11/2025

Evenings have their own truth. They don’t rush like mornings or stretch like afternoons. They simply arrive—soft, unannounced, asking us to check who we became through the hours. Some people are still at work, some are settling into silence, and many are just beginning their second shift of life at home.
No two evenings resemble each other, because no two days shape us the same way. The small victories, the quiet disappointments, the undone tasks—all settle around us like a slow mist. Yet this hour holds a peculiar power: it lets us decide how the day should end.
A calm walk, a warm dinner, a message to someone we forgot, or simply closing the eyes for a minute—these tiny choices define the night more than anything grand.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
Instagram: rajatchandrasarmah5
YouTube: Converse With A Smile

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Date: 30/11/2025

Travel through Assam once, and you will notice something unusual—silk is not just a fabric here; it is memory woven into cloth. The two jewels, Eri and Muga, carry stories older than most written histories.

Eri, often called the ahimsa silk, begins with the “leta” — the Assamese word for the worm stage, where the silkworm feeds on castor leaves before forming the cocoon. Villagers care for these tiny lives with remarkable patience. Unlike other silks, the cocoon is processed only after the moth leaves, making Eri warm, soft, and ethically treasured.

Muga, on the other hand, is Assam’s pride—its natural golden sheen deepens with age. The silkworms are raised in open environments, feeding on Som and Soalu leaves. Producing Muga is demanding; the climate, timing, and handling must align almost perfectly. That is why the GI tag protects it—because no other land can replicate its glow.

To wear Eri or Muga is to wear a piece of Assam’s quiet resilience, its forests, its people, and its craft sustained through generations.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
Instagram: rajatchandrasarmah5
YouTube: Converse With A Smile

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Date: 30/11/2025

Some mornings begin even before the sun shows up. Not outside—inside. A thought slips in, uninvited, and suddenly you are awake, lying still, listening to the low hum of life around you. Somewhere a kettle boils, somewhere traffic gathers itself for the day, and somewhere else a farmer is already in his fields. We do not rise at the same time, nor do we rise for the same reasons. Yet the moment we open our eyes, the world asks only one thing—what will you do with this day?
That single question levels every border, age, and profession. Whether you are retired, overwhelmed, young, or simply tired of being tired, the first step is always the same—choose to begin.
Today, begin gently.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
Instagram: rajatchandrasarmah5
YouTube: Converse With A Smile