Month: August 2019

Poetry

A Conversation

The woman in the coffee shop asked me what I wanted. “Oh she is doing me.” I said “OH is she?” She smiled “You have a dirty mind.” I said “It’s the only thing that is dirty.” She said. “Yea I bet you could eat your breakfast off it.” I […]

Poetry

Ex

She stares defiantly yet desperately inhaling the smoke from her cigarette deeply into black lungs broken heart her eyes dark pools of despair. ~Ian Fletcher Cardiff, South Wales

Poetry

Porte

He sits at the gate D’orleans The last time he spoke ten years ago. But still they come and sit with him watch and wait they know he says nothing but when he does he speaks of truth and something that is not of this world. When he spoke ten […]

Poetry

Step By Step

Look into my eyes How much life is there inside me You’ll see how life peeps through them And flies Because it can still fly Up above and so high There are desires, Courage and aspirations, Hopes and expectations They are all there Only I have to walk up And […]

Fiction

That Night When It Rained

~By Shobha Diwakar The night was gloomy; the night was dark. Outside, the streetlights as usual had walked away into the silent gloom. Somewhere an owl hooted to claim its presence while the little chirpy birds silently tucked  themselves up to nap softly in their precious nests that held them […]

Poetry

Leaving

quietly it evolves as a deafening sound and slowly reverberates into her soul as if the heart stops beating and insensate into her whole being which entirety is freed into the window of her soul tonight, the words thy soul has uttered ushered an enigma into her being Let not […]

Poetry

Mirror–Writing

And you aren’t so blind. Because, you know that ƎƆИA⅃UᙠMA is Mirror–Writing ! You hear a long crying Siren ! ᎮИITIЯW–ЯOЯЯIM is AMBULANCE ! You let it pass forevermore. But, there is never Time ! How–ever, What came first ? The Ambu – ‘l‘ance or, The long Siren Or end-less […]

Editorial

The Rights and Wrongs

By The Editor: Siddharth Sehgal Sometimes organizations or political parties mistakes can easily undo their good work and it cannot be more true in the case of BJP. The promised passage of the bill banning triple talaq which will go a long way in addressing the rights issue of Muslim […]

Articles

Wanted: Peacemakers; Not Peacefakers

By  Mark Antony Rossi Have you ever noticed in the word peacemaker there is the active word “maker” and the complete word in my book is truly a verb. The peacemaker takes action to help peace develop in a place of conflict and strife. In today’s world we have too […]