By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal The Covid nightmare continues for India, the dead bodies floating in our rivers are revealing the grim reality of the crisis that is unfolding in the countryside and also that how underprepared our system was for this pandemic. Things were not in control earlier too […]
Month: May 2021
The End Is Near! (Again)
by Gabriel Bates from Tiffin, Ohio, USA
The Open Drawer
by Ranjit Kulkarni When she bent down to clean the floor beneath, her eyes were drawn towards that drawer again. The drawer was open when the bell rang. She knew what was inside it. She took a deep breath. “Shanthamma, give the keys to the driver,” she heard from the […]
King of Hearts and Queen of Love
by Amrita Valan “Raja ko Rani se Pyar Ho Gaya, (The King has fallen for his queen), the mushy love song from a nineties Hindi movie played cloyingly somewhere. My mind dove into a cocoon of spun silk memories listening to the lilting refrain. Growing up in an Indian milieu […]
The Circle of Life
by Brian Fox from East Meadow, NY, USA
Of the People, By the People, For the People..
A family has lost there only son.. A lady crying whole night saying that she has to make it for her 4 years old daughter but she didn’t… A doctor lost his mother but he has to came back to duty to save others life… A person died in an […]
I Prefer to Pretend I Don’t Know
by Bindiya Bedi Charan Noronha Reality often hurts. It is true. And naked and raw, it hurts even more when no one has gilded it or painted it pink. That is why so many times, so many people, prefer not to know. I prefer not to know that my husband/wife […]
Darkness
As the pink hues in the sky turn to pitch black The ever-present claws in my head gnaw hard Nausea swirls its way up through my stomach And my lungs get blocked by a glass shard The person in the mirror is not me but Her hollow eyes and ashen […]
The Silent Tears
The way you look at me Is so enlightening! My heart totters in joy. Your sight makes me emerald, Your admiration makes me Exuberant!! Don’t you know my lord?! Your presence makes me feel complete Your ignorance makes me useless! Your smile gives me relief, Your gratification makes me […]
Ganesha At Rest
By Aadinath Sastry from Bhubaneswar, India