~ BY BABY KATTACKAL Kerala, India THE WINDOWS OF THE SHIP WERE ALL AJAR, LETTING THE SWEEPING WINDS OF THE ARABIAN SEA IN, TO DRIVE AWAY THE PERVASIVE STINK, TRAPPED IN, OF THE GUNPOWDER. FOR, THE SHIP WAS MOVING DETONATING, SALVOS OF GUNFIRE AT THE ENEMY, THE VESSEL WAS […]
Month: October 2020
Life Finds a Way
Living is seldom facile It is too much of a hassle Sometimes things turn dark The bleakness stands stark Things are often dismal Wish it wasn’t so abysmal. Darkness wasn’t meant to stay Can we make it go away? Bleakness is not our friend Every second is ours to defend. […]
KBC
By Dr. Anuradh Sistla from Hyderabad, India
The Spice Garden of India
I still remember as if it were yesterday, ambling through the heavenly spice garden of India, Free, floating, fanciful am I, having all and lacking none but reason. Nostalgia floods my heart and I close my eyes, And in these few mere seconds, I, myself, am a scarlet rose in […]
FDI For the Changing Times
by Vinod Narayanan Enhanced FDI inflows to the economy was among the Pioneer headlines in the past week. According to the data of the ‘Department For Promotion of Industry and Internal trade’. Indian economy received $49.97 Billion in the financial year 2019-20? viz.13% more than that of last year. FDI […]
മൗനം
പറയാതെ പറയുന്ന വാക്കുകൾക്ക- തീതമാണെൻ മൗനം പറയാതെ പറയുന്ന പരിഭവങ്ങളും പറയാൻ വിമ്പുന്ന നർമ്മങ്ങളും ഹൃദയത്തിൻ ഭാവാഭിനയമാണ്. ഹൃദയങ്ങൾ തമ്മിലുള്ള സംവാദം മൊഴികൾക്കല്ല, മൗനമാണാധാരം. വാക്കുകളുടെ ബാഹുല്യത്തിൽ നിന്നും മൗനത്തിനും ഹൃദയത്തിൽ സ്ഥാനം വേണം. English translation For unspoken words- Silence is the, last And unspoken concern and, humour that is eager to tell the expression of the heart. Conversation […]
Do You Die in the Water, When You Hit the Water, or During the Fall?
The noise of morning rises with the cream of dawn: it is I who opens the gate to Samael, it is I who finds window glass wanting, it is I who no longer wishes to wait, it is I who seek entrance with Thyone. Can no one help? Can […]
Autumn Leaves
by Mehreen Ahmed Quasu was growing up really fast. He was now five years of age and was able to enjoy the wedding. The next day, after the wedding, Mila was in her in-law’s house. Prema, Lutfun, and Nazmun Banu sat with their tea, at teatime in the orchard. Autumn […]
Three Cups of Tea
by Rrashima Swaarup Verma The early morning sunlight was pushing its way through the edges of the thick drapes. Divya sighed and opened her eyes. Her sleep had been fitful and she didn’t feel rested. Glancing at the clock, she snuggled back into bed. Five minutes more. It was only […]
Love Poem
Too coy the haiku- Horatian the ode, A villanelle reels- a limerick’s too light; A little lugubrious, for me, the ballad, Too desperate to soar the elegy’s height. No, to page and poet, a prayer’s the sonnet- Witness Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Petrarch- An incensed chapel, pregnant silence on it, Framing […]