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 […]
Month: December 2020
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Kolkata – The City of Shades
by Soutrik Dutta Kolkata !! As everyone would spell is just the city of joy. But is it all that it has to offer? A city where life and soul are mixed with ingredients of emotion and heritage cooked in the plater of modernity. A city where the imaginary of […]
Bhutan’s Flag
By Aadinath Sastry from Bhubaneswar, India