Nothing belongs to us We are busy looking and working for Money, wealth, fame and recognition All belong to the EARTH. Nothing belongs to us We are busy filling our bucket list Collecting memories from travel All belong to the TIME. Nothing belongs to us We are busy honing our […]
Month: May 2020
Life Is Magical
Magic Of My Sunset Zone Walking with passage of time I’ve reached the twilight zone, Not so young, active or beautiful Yet, I do not, evermore, moan. It’s true that I have slowed down, I view surroundings at much leisure, Trees, breeze, cascades and flowers, Offer me a new found […]
Grapes Are Sour
By Shobha Diwakar As the wind howled and trees bowed down to the mighty wail, the birds twittered fiercely, flapped their tiny wings even as they spread them cautiously to shield the little birdies tucked warmly inside. After a while, it was calm once again as the sky drowned with […]
The Book and I
It’s a little hard to say how, why on one calm eve the book and I all over again met eye on eye and bibliosmia and human scents concocted sent dragonflies dancing in an orgy of you and I. Deserted pages long left unfinished… Long back life’s galloping stallions severed […]
Constitutional Patriotism and a New Democratic Identity
By Yanis Iqbal The ongoing Anti-CAA-NPR-NRC protests represent a polemical encounter with a statist nationalism. A broad-brush definitional framework of statist nationalism can be formulated by emphasizing its lifeblood which is the coercive imposition of allegiance to the state. This allegiance is gradually built by creating a seemingly indestructible ideological […]
Fighting Soul
A cool breeze touched my dry skin , and woke me from a bad dream . And made me stroll around the room Thinking about my murky future. And stood still like a frozen water. Could see folks through my window ; Busy in their morning regime . And I […]
A Conversation With Ex
Now that you have cared To sit before me and talk A bit till we both go away to catch the train , What about asking you few basic things? Yes yes I know, Your train is due at 1300 hours Mine too, following yours, ( as always in every […]
Earrings for My Daughter
By Maliha Iqbal Maya stared out of the window. It was dark but she couldn’t sleep. Her mother and little brother snored away next to her. The night was hot and she was sweating continuously, her clothes kept sticking to her body. The mosquito net made it hotter but it […]
Barber Blues
By Amber Marfatia from Pune, India Find & Follow more cartoons from Amber at www.instagram.com/toonstory.in
Building, Room No 101
By Shafeeq Mp Karekkad Current circumstance of India is being criticized as crucial, portrayed as brutal and articulated as ass, the dystopian novel of George Orwell is intended to be a dialogue owing to vanity fizzing when sanity fizzle out. Democracy become dusty and rule become rusty in the hands […]