Month: December 2020

Poetry

रिश्ते

रिश्ते कच्ची डोर से होते हैं कभी तो उलझ जाते हैं खींच कर रखा तो टूट जाते हैं प्यार से रखा निभ भी जाते हैं.   बिना रिश्तों के जीवन जैसे बिना नमक का खाना चाहे जितना मसाला डालो स्वाद कहाँ आता है.   रिश्ते तो गुंथे हुए आंटे जैसे […]

Poetry

Festival of Baishaki

We are taught to accept the good and the bad, the bitter and the sweet as these go together. Nature starts afresh after a barren winter Dawning of spring is observed in all cultures. Baisakhi festival which happens after winter, celebrates brilliant color of nature in display. Sound of cuckoo, […]

Fiction

A Special Christmas Story

by Rrashima Swaarup Verma  ‘But Ma honestly, I’m a big boy now!’ Sarah smiled even as her eight-year-old spread his hands out in a gesture of sheer helplessness. Tall and broad for his age, he already almost reached Sarah’s shoulders. To say that he was the apple of his mother’s […]

Poetry

Queens Pawn Game

Her world is black Her world is white Her world is the battle of 2 sides   It’s her little world and she controls it She moves forwards or backwards However she feels is worth it   Her moves are sharp Her moves are right Her moves intimidate even the […]

Fiction

Rebecca’s Diary

by Tamanna Malik Date: 26th November 2006 Its been exactly twenty-three days eight hours forty-one minutes and eight seconds now. I’m sitting on the same bench in the same corridor outside the same room with a white door reading the same letters – ICU. Mom is in there, on one […]

Fiction

This Is Christmas

by Linda Imbler I thought I had some of my best Christmases as a child, and although as an adult I spent each Christmas with my parents, I thought the Christmas of 1980 would not have much joy in it.  John Lennon had been murdered on December 8th, and that incident was […]

Poetry

Heart of Gold

Quick-tempered but kind, too, if you know the way with him, if you know the way to his heart. Bullheaded but funny, too, many a laugh we have had together, laughed till we snorted. Fastidious but fiercely loving, too, lavishing me with doting affection, embracing my scars, idiosyncrasies, et al. […]

Poetry

Harmonious Peace

I pray thee God like innocent insane To hear my humble call and showers thee blessings We’re an err since birth, forgive us O’ Devine We want to live peacefully give us strength.   True lesson of life, we’ve learnt thoroughly Such a charm like peace didn’t ever seen For […]