The year 2020 filled with adversity twined Brought to us the agony of various kind Robbing from us our peace of mind Due to COVID19, its character undefined Here we are encased into a small place Each day see the students’ suffocating face Radiating the desire to escape into […]
Month: January 2021
I Need You Like I Breathe
I need you like I breathe Your thoughts makes me exists Your imagination is my heartbeat And I cannot escape from the fact that I love you more than anything else in the world craves for it You’re always on my mind I wake up, work, eat, sleep and […]
From the Day of Glory to the Day of Misfortunes
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal 26th January 2021 was a day many of us would like to forget but the chaos and violence on streets of Delhi and Red Fort that the whole nation witnessed on their television sets is something that will be difficult to forget. The farmer’s movement […]
Ordinary People
Those people in the corners of the frame The vendors selling their wares On dirty streets, of broken asphalt The girl in the tattered dress Too large for her skeletal physique The man on the rickshaw, half clad Ferrying indigent royalty here and there The boy with thirteen balloons At […]
Letter Journey
Journey to explore world begins the time am out of the stock; Peasant hooks me to the desk, like a boat nosed to the dock; Lying on clumsy desk, irked my senses, Yet tranquil I stay, Impaired with no arms or lips, Lack tact to fling words to express, Brain […]
Too Shy
You may read my eyes for an honest confession else for an elaborate answer as my lips quiver too shy to compose and deliver and you know that better Your infectious smile is the reason behind… my abundance of ease I do solemnly affirm and […]
Doltish Mind
Your mind and your soul, always in an altercation Quibbling upon faults and chagrin over verifications Perfectly erudite yet still seems confused Much audacity in store still left unused Wary of every pain coming its way And scared of happiness which makes it sway Your mind, your doltish mind […]
Change This Topic
by Ramendra Singh Next evening Shivangi was flying to the U.S. for a post-graduate course in mental health at the Washington State University. She had decided to spend her last night in India with her friends, nearly all of them, from school, from college, from the street theatre group she […]
Vaccine Diplomacy
By Dr. Anuradh Sistla from Hyderabad, India
A Documentary Film Maker’s Odyssey: A Unique Commemorative Calendar
by Dr. Kiran Thakur I was saddened by the black and white images of Lal Bahadur Shastri’s last living picture after his death on January 11, 1966. Millions of Indian newspaper readers saw the pictures later. Like these readers, I too did not know the name of the photographer then. […]