The day heralds with a misty haze, reflexes slacken, fudged thoughts, dampen my spirits, I turn over pages of the past, searching for the trinkets hidden in the rusty trunk, carrying my camouflaged memories in unsubstantial forms. I rummage it in the crevices of my mind, sort them,stack them stealthily […]
Month: December 2020
The Taj Lake Palace: A Scintillating Saga
by Anantinee Mishra The first of Taj’s Grand Palaces, the pristine white-marbled castle floating on the quiet, serene waters of Lake Pichola, once upon a time had been a property of Maharana Jagat Singh in 1746. Its former name Jag Niwas (aka Heavenly Abode) is perhaps in itself a fitting […]
CORONA, A WAY TO THINK AND GROW GREAT
~ by BABY KATTACKAL Kerala, India CORONA VIRUS, A KILLER WITH DESIGNS TO KILL, MAN AND MAN ALONE, MAKING HIM, HOPELESS AND FORLORN. IT LOCKS HIM DOWN, WITH HIS HOPES DOWN, SEEMS PUTTING AN END, TO HIS DESIRES AND ENDS. BUT THERE IS STILL HOPE, NOT MERE HOPING AGAINST HOPE, […]
‘I’m Yeah Creator
‘I’ am the Sun and conquering Light and Fire, yeah; ‘I’m yeah Creator of the season or the sea-sons… ‘I’ am the Composer of lovelyClimates. ‘I’ Only Yea yeah — ‘I’ncarnate For the Queen Sandi6 & EarthCheryl6. ‘I’ Only — Yea ‘I’ncarnate always ‘I’ am the Sun and conquering Light […]
Beautiful Creatures of Nature!
By Anuradha S. Bannore from Vadodara, India
Target 2021
By Dr. Anuradh Sistla from Hyderabad, India
A Beautiful Land
I was born in a remote village of a beautiful Island, where agriculture was the main occupation of many people. It was a beautiful land like a flowering garden. The people cultivated paddy, jute, potato, betel leaf, sugarcane, radish, tomato, chillies, etc. They cultivated fruits including watermelon, mango, jackfruit, banana, […]
Existence
The wheels move Somewhere there is lightning. Showers hit the windshield. Onions, carrots, tomatoes Chili, ginger and…. Ah! Cucumber not to forget Coriander. A mongrel decided To take a reverse gear The wheels ran over Once… twice Chicken, bread and bun Some cola perhaps? Chips and peanuts […]
Cow dung Diyas, for Eco-friendly Diwali To Earn Livelihood for Village Women
by Vatsal Kariya Jalamb, Buldhana district, Maharashtra, 29 November 2020. Surbhi Seva Bahu-uddeshiya Samstha (SSBS) from Jalamb in Buldhana district produced eco-friendly Diyas (lamps) using cow dung this Diwali. The Samstha produced 25,000 such Diyas and marketed 15,000 of them in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Bengaluru, Surat, and Jaipur amongst other […]
Disputes of He, She, They & You Words
In Hindi, Punjabi languages, maybe in other languages there are disputes of the above mentioned words. ‘He’ & ‘She’ words are used for younger ones by elderly ones. ‘They’ word is used to show respect for a single person. On the other hand ‘They’ word is used in plural form […]