Month: April 2020

Poetry

Rainbow After the Storm Covid 19

It strikes to a serene state With global magnitude While its cause is still unknown Panic and fear is felt all around Creating chaos and health threat A pandemic that loses the lives of the people Some are still fighting for their lives While pandemic still creating havoc No one […]

Poetry

Silent Green

Blue hill plays with Meadows green Hide and Seek into Fog screen Watching aside old man Oak Torn barks his warm cloak, Noisy squirrel busy picking nut Rabbit watching with mouth shut Flowing stream jingles all along Thirsty crow doesn’t like song, Morning sun slowly rising high Birds are gliding […]

Fiction

Friendship

By Maliha Iqbal “Wake up! Wake up! We are already late” yelled my brother at me. I got up as quickly as possible and as I was changing my clothes I heard my brother say for the hundredth time “I am so excited! We are going to our hometown for […]

Editorial

Commonsense in Times of Corona

By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal Imagine if you could save lives by doing nothing and staying put at home? It’s not much to ask for but it seems too much for some people. People are organizing kitty parties at home, card playing sessions at rooftops and flouting lockdown law by […]

Poetry

He Who Laughs Last

He Who Laughs Last  What a wonderful sight Man is caged within four walls  A self created cage! We ramble on the roads  We, the beasts of the forest We roam the streets While your arrogance has locked the gloom, you spread Your vivacious sparkle has drowned You destroyed the […]

Poetry

My kingdom, My Kingdom for a Horse

As I run through the covid in the countryside a woman on a horse stops the car behind her  and crosses the road into a field with water aching from its limbs and into a tiny river. She gallops along and I catch her up. Can I borrow your horse […]

Articles

The Roman Empire: An Historical Epic

By Anantinee ‘JHUMPA’ Mishra WHO IS SO WORTHLESS AND INDOLENT THAT THEY DO NOT WISH TO KNOW BY WHAT MEANS AND UNDER WHAT POLITICAL SYSTEM THE ROMANS, IN LESS THAN 53 YEARS, HAVE SUCCEEDED IN BRINGING NEARLY THE WHOLE INHABITED WORLD UNDER A SINGLE GOVERNMENT, SOMETHING NEVER BEFORE ACHIEVED?   […]

Poetry

Outcast

How do I live a perfect life? Amidst this fight to survive Why can’t it be black and white? These grey areas are getting hostile One mislaid tile on the floor Is already giving them an eyesore Even the purest halogen couldn’t kill All the carnal pathogens in full Is […]