Month: November 2020

Poetry

Words Unwrapped

Blotting ink on the page, I unwrap words in my head. If not now? they would suffocate and choke me to death.   To express the degree of things- disrupting, uncertain, unspecific. Is to wear your heart on the sleeve, dauntlessly heroic.   Before you preconceive and teach me how […]

Poetry

Some Odd Thoughts

~ by BABY KATTACKAL Kerala, India PART 1.   THE LEGACY OF  RELIGIOUS BELIEF.  BELIEF IN GOD, SOUL, THE OTHERWORLD, ET AL, IS A DRUGLESS ADDICTION TO THE BELIEVERS, THE BELIEVERS BEING  SLAVES, IRRETRIEVABLY,  CHAINED, TO THEIR  ROOTLESS  BELIEF, THEIR ADDICTION.    THEY ARE IN ETERNAL CAPTIVITY, OF THE  SPIRITUAL THOUGHTS […]

Poetry

Fear

I fear believing I fear those saints Propaganda is powerful And the powerful are deranged   I fear power I fear the lies War is a business And love is a vice   I fear corporations I fear the greed Profiteers slaughters morality Esurient corrupts the creed   I fear […]

Editorial

The Congress and the Middle Class

By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal The Grand Old Party has yet another election debacle in Bihar and as the dirty in house laundry is being washed in public by Congress top brass, maybe as a voter belonging to the middle class, whom Congress has lost a long time ago, I […]

Poetry

Teacher’s Delight

I come home from school Lethargic like a lion at dreary dusk; A smile beneath the façade of fatigue, Creases of my collar dust in lime Sweating to the sinews in time, Gasp for a restful sigh- A coffee in my old tea mug, Perhaps a whisky in ice to […]

Poetry

The Painful Love

When I stand in the drizzly rain My mind gets occupied in bane Heart experiences unbearable strain The memory of the past cause a heart sprain As it’s being whipped with a betrayal cane   Now that she is gone causing my heart stain I keep thinking of her, although […]

Poetry

My Pet Dog

Animals are the best de-stressors. Adopted dogs reduce feelings of loneliness.   Researchers have found that people with pets have lower heart rate and blood pressure level.   With stressful circumstances, loneliness can’t be avoided but a pet dog can create happiness.   He rushes to welcome you as he hears you […]