Fresh and Orange, Slept and came. Twitching their eyes, With a joyous Smile. A Ray of Hope, Fall on Humane, Stands with Duties! More with a goal. Rise at Noon, Like a burning Moon, Make Man Sweat, Falling asleep. Tired and Red, Dawn in the Evening! Back […]
Month: December 2020
Sentiments
We were together But were caged on our assumptions Thought that I don’t deserve the love of yours And you were caged on a belief that you don’t match with the personalities that I lived with We were pierced on our own memories That has carved the mark of […]
Pondering Over Value System
by Bharati Thakur This is the story of a gentleman from a small village. He was a pandit, a kind-hearted person, always willing to help anybody. The story began early in the morning when a neighbour told another villager that this gentleman had died. Some children, younger men, and women […]
Canvass of Nature
By Anuradha S. Bannore from Vadodara, India
The Winter of Protest: Remembering Jamia and Shaheen Bagh
by Ajanta Dutt A year ago, a huge chunk of history was made–and it happened very fast. Years hence when people ask us where we were when it happened, we should be able to say–at Jamia Millia Islamia and Shaheen Bagh. The turn of the decade in a chilled Delhi […]
Animal Control
By Terence Wynne from Camillus, NY, USA
Why We Need Too Much Democracy?
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal A few days ago a top bureaucrat in government claimed and rued that we are too much of a democracy to have any reforms. Though he, later on, tried to clarify his stance, his statement actually reflects the mentality of the Indian political and bureaucratic […]
Till We Meet Again
Mystical fate’s wonderful execution The hand’s of time surrenders to its spell Souls destined to entwine each other A beautiful journey in life is about to unleash. Ages ago soul was wrapped with emptiness Pale shades of life ruled the innermost being Everything had lost its meaning Succumbing to life’s […]
The True Monk
Renouncing the worldly desire Ordinary life filled with the bizarre Surrenders to God in maroon attire With the determination never to retire Day and night they learn hymns Soothing mantras in melodious rhymes Reverberating prayers, that cause whim Eradicating the sufferings of a sentient being Faithful to dharma […]
Longing
The distinct lilting cadences in the landscapes of mind set a robust rhythm to invoke vistas of lush green make me long for life divine Quaint rattles of rickshaws their warm strides the melody of cuckoos still ring and chime waft down to set a rhapsody sublime The […]