When I peeped out of my window, I was greeted by a beautiful rainbow. It was wonderful to see the colours nicely blended, and the spectrum perfectly bended. The light rays and water droplets have come together, and displayed their chemistry altogether. Seven different shades with their own gaiety, Yet, […]
Month: August 2020
Lockdown in Heaven
By Dr. Anuradh Sistla from Hyderabad, India
Ruth
The snow has fallen on her grave, Lamenting the death of her child, The love of nature, couldn’t save The meek, the mild or the wild. I’m not the only one, beside her stone, Adorned by the withering daffodils. The earth is creeping through her bones, All her secrets are […]
Hard to Say Goodbye
Caught amid disremembering at the crack of dawn that promises to give light to my mornings now bring frightening darkness. … the sunrise that painted the skies with beautiful hues has dimmed and made my day blue …momentous nights that give life to the listless moon and stars now […]
True Feminism
by Anantinee ‘JHUMPA’ Mishra “You don’t have to be an Anti-Man to be a Pro-Woman” ~Jane Lewis Feminism, ideologies and movements that aim to define, establish and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes, despite largely originating in the West, is manifested throughout the globe. Scholars consider […]
Memories
Her troubled eyes gaze at the ground revealing one who has not found peace in this harsh world. She is tortured by her memories rushing in then out of her unquiet mind the good times unrecoverable the bad times scarring her still. Forget the past her friends tell her live […]
Happy Friendship Day
By Aadinath Sastry from Bhubaneswar, India
Invigilation
Macabre hues that engulf chairs Under screeching senile fan, Would refract in the languid gaze Vapid sweat swells, pages turn- Cicadas, moss and moistened fern, Spin the moments in a yearning yarn. Solitary tread through the dampened pines of Dowhill, crimson bleeding bloom of rhododendrons; now perpetrate And conjure up […]
ये सोच तुम्हारी कैसी है
तुम चाहते उसके जिस्म को, वो प्रेम समझ कर बैठी है। उसके कपड़े छोटे तो बलात्कार हुआ, ये सोच तुम्हारी कैसी है।। अबला नहीं वो दुर्गा है, मा भवानी-काली जैसी है। मीठे शब्दों से बेहला कर, तुमने उसपर अनेकों अत्याचार किया। कहते हो मनुष्य हो तुम, तो जब सहती […]
Patience
Patience is not merely for how long you wait, It’s more about how kindly you behave and bat, At the doors of pleasure we all tend to blush, Yet, at the stairs of temper why do we rush? Patience, no doubt, is a brilliant art An Art to master, […]