By Monica Bakre “No, No, No, No…” spoke up Sudhanshu, “Not that name…” “Why, Papa? What happened? ” asked his daughter-in-law, Swati, who was actively planning her one-month-old daughter’s cradling ceremony with the whole family. “Yeah, Papa, what is wrong with ‘Sunayana’? Baby has beautiful eyes!” said the proud father, […]
Please bury this body Its dead, its not asleep I am not there, for me Don’t grieve and weep I do not perish, I cannot die I am an invincible soul Body is my carrier, only, To help me attain my goal Discarded like old clothes My body lies lifeless […]
It was a very dark night The sky shone with multitudes of twinkling stars The thin crescent emitted a soft, gentle, silvery light A dazzling artistic creation of God, it was! She sat on her verandah entranced by its beauty The lofty dark trees swayed with the breeze- Its long […]
By Mark Antony Rossi How valid is the outcome of writing used merely as a form of therapy? A strange question asked yet you often wonder when every jack of all trades is jotting down stories behind your back. And you thought you were the only writer around. Has the […]
By N.V.Subbaraman from Chennai, India Mahakavi Bharathiyar, great patriot and national Poet with his sterling songs in Tamil, roused the peoples conscience towards, Motherland, its freedom, Mother Tongue, its greatness, Woman’s lib, its need and sanctity, social evils, need to eradicate and so on during the short span of 39 […]
By Terence Wynne from Camillus, NY [slideshow_deploy id=’4442′]
Miss you poet Ali, homeless, exile. Never met you the person, but met the poet of Kashmir, pain, and loss. Yearning for a time and a place that never could be; never, be mine again. Miss you Lahore pre-forty-seven. Never been there, in person, but felt you through pages on […]
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal Nitish Kumar’s suffering at the hands of his political partners is coming towards an end. But this end is of his own making the only positive sign for him is that he gets to save the face. But given the charges against Lalu’s family this […]
By N.V.Subbaraman from Chennai, India Mahakavi Bharathiyar, great patriot and national Poet with his sterling songs in Tamil, roused the peoples conscience towards, Motherland, its freedom, Mother Tongue, its greatness, Woman’s lib, its need and sanctity, social evils, need to eradicate and so on during the short span of 39 […]
By Mark Antony Rossi The other day I ran into a 23-year-old who claimed she was a “life coach.” I found it difficult to swallow that someone so young could counsel another person about the trials and tribulations of life. After all was a young woman, never married, never been […]
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