बहुत सी ग़लतियाँ करके भी हम सलामत हैं फ़लक पे दूर हमारा भी निगहबान है कोई कभी ऐसा भी होता है कि हिम्मत पस्त हो जाये तभी वो हौसला देता है, मेहरबान है कोई कभी घबरा के जब कहते हैं हम मर जायेंगे वही जीना सिखाता है, वो राज़दान है […]
Month: July 2016
The Cruel Sea
It rained incessantly for days together Inundating every nook and corner Like an angry lion it raged over the plains Helplessly everyone stood glaring at it Completely lost, clueless of an escape For a rescue they waited till evening Circumventing their watery death eyeing them hungrily! A Mother hugging her […]
Mrs. Aandhi
By Shobha Diwakar She always had an air about her no matter what happened around her. It so happened that Neeta met her at a party to which Mrs. Aandhi was also invited. There she was surrounded with all the flatterers of the world you could find. They all cooed […]
Here is Valluvar’s Voice
Following is the translation of Thirukkural, a discourse on ethics, its author is Tamil poet and philosopher Thiruvalluvar who lived around 3rd Century. It’s translation is done by Mr. NV Subbaraman, he lives in Chennai. ~*~ செல்வத்துள் செல்வம் செவிச்செல்வம்;அச்செல்வம் செல்வத்துள் எல்லாம் தலை. Pronunciation SelvaththuL selvam sevichchelvam; accchelvam SelvaththuL ellAm thalai. Translation Listening […]
The Tibetans who are Indians
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal Most of us are familiar with two sorts of Tibetans one is Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama and others are those from whom we purchase our sweaters and jackets from in Tibetan markets that opens up during winters in cities across India. The facts […]
Person of the Week: Rehan Qayoom
Dear Readers, In this interview series where we ask few questions to people who are making a difference, it can be big, it can be small it doesn’t matter what matters is their contribution to our society. It can be anyone from any walks of life and from any country. Please, do […]
Barking Dogs Seldom Bite
By Shobha Diwakar I suppose everyone is quite familiar with this idiom or proverb, call it whatever you will. Everywhere you hop around, I mean walk down or up the road, and you find barks thrashing your ears from all around. You look to the left, then to the right, […]
The Forest Inhabitants
By Anuradha Bannore from Vadodara, India [slideshow_deploy id=’2581′]
Person of the Week: Chandrashekhar Bhadsavle
Dear Readers, In this interview series where we ask few questions to people who are making a difference, it can be big, it can be small it doesn’t matter what matters is their contribution to our society. It can be anyone from any walks of life and from any country. Please, do […]
Seeing the Forest and the Trees
By Mark Antony Rossi The notion of communion with nature declined steadily moments after the first sizeable city was founded upon cleared forestland, slaughtered buffaloes and Native Americans nearly extinguished in the crossfire of broken treaties and mad gold rushes. “Taming the Wild Frontier” is an ugly misnomer invented to […]