By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal If you are living in India, the headline of this article is sufficient to convey the future we are heading towards at an unprecedented rate. Like innumerable problems that plague our county and like typical Indian reaction to those problems, we’ll deal with it when […]
Month: June 2018
The Captain
By Billi from Guwahati, India
Yonder Lands
Far away, beyond the boundless Oceans In lands alien, Perhaps For more moolah and succour, To tide over The dearth of food and clothing. Ah! ecstatic images emerge… Somewhere deep in the hearts of villages Several new houses erected With newly earned wealth, abroad One who returns… For a glimpse […]
The Emerging Babas
The other day the headlines read Another ‘baba’ was caught and sent To the jail where he cried And rent the air Filling all with disgust and dread This one is a ‘flowering head’ Collects huge alms and builds his regime. In ancient days the ‘babas’ all Lived a plain […]
When Family Doesn’t Understand Your Writing
By Mark Antony Rossi Your family doesn’t understand your writing: it’s an age-old dilemma that rears its two-faced head again and again. I won’t recommend offering disrespect to loved ones. Especially if you deeply feel their conduct towards your pursuit is exceedingly disrespectful. I am not one to counsel […]
The Mirror On The Wall
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of all” Many times I heard the fable When I was a little ga’l But until the present day I haven’t got a reply How can a mirror select a Winner from, those who vie Mirror has to tell the truth […]
Rajasthan
By Anuradha S. Bannore from Vadodara, India
From Honeymoon I Started Into The Open Years
From honeymoon I started but too many around me want to sterilize all they do or feel. With my hands in my pockets I stand against the wall: From honeymoon I started, into the open years I roam. I’m a lover with a spaceship and a universal home. People all […]
यादों के साये से
ज़िन्दगी की कश्मकश भरी राहों में, मेरे सूने मन भरने की चाहों में, किसी की बनायी कविता की पनाहों में, आज एक भारी बरसात हुई,…. रात हुई, रात हुई और काली रात हुई। याद आई वो लड़की, याद आई उसकी बात, कोई मेरे दिल पर बनाकर एक बाँध खुश था […]
Chicanery and Smiles
You smile your laugh And pat me in the back and say That everything is okay But I know that nothing is okay You say to me that I’m welcome The welcome of Antipas to Jean Batiste I already see my crown on a platter A thoughtless token to slake […]