by Ranjit Kulkarni The festival of Gowri-Ganesha in Bangalore has quite a few differences from the festival of Ganpati in Mumbai. In Bangalore, it is a private festival while in Mumbai it is a public festival. Almost everyone in Bangalore gets a ‘मूर्ति’ at home. While in Mumbai it is […]
Month: September 2021
To The Psyche
There is a man hiding behind the man you see whose ego is burnt carbon and is unique And darkened by the lord of death himself, prone to the flicker of eyes that would tell There in the offing is a maddened hour of wee when in the beginning cuckoo […]
Blind With Strange
Swimming with wings of night Passing through my shore of scar Landing in my screaming world Immerse in lasting glow Hover through my jives of life Falling for my collide of soul Where I sit and stand with unknown shade Walking in my cosmic night Where we deep […]
Ghosts in Me
A ghost in me – there resides a ghost in me It comes out when I swim in lakes at evenfalls So when a man sees my spine with evil eyes – and bites his tongue with his cowardly teeth – and lives in his head a dream of me […]
Environment of a Forest Life
A boy who lives in hostel went to a forest which was located behind his village. He could see few birds had settled in the branches of trees inside the forest. While loitering, he could see few deers, squirrels, several mynahs and foxes. When he walked further inside on that […]
Paper Mache Ganpati Idols: Mission Towards a Better Environment
by Priya Prakash Pune: The iconic Handmade Paper Institute (HMPI) Pune never fails to add extra value to the festival with its innovations. This year HMPI is all set with new Ganpati idols made up of 90% Paper pulp and 10% adhesive and Shaadu Maati. Their successful experiment with Paper […]
True Existence
Everyone loves a rose and that’s the fact no one can deny. We embrace the joy of its beauty but we simply ignore the thorns which is an integral part of that beautiful rose. How unwise it would be to love the rose and hate the thorns that is integrated […]
Thanks For Nothing
by Gabriel Bates from Tiffin, Ohio USA
The Hills Have Ears
by Steve Carr Tacitus awoke, startled by the silence from his wife’s side of the bed, rolled over onto his side and was relieved to see Alicia, his wife, was breathing. She usually snored as she slept, not a loud snore, but noticeable and constant. In the dream he had […]
Paralympics and Seventeen Gallant Indian Sportspersons
by Deepanshu Srivastava Paralympic Games were in much limelight since they commenced on August 24. Interestingly, the Paralympic Games were founded by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a Jewish doctor who had started a spinal injury center at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital, England. For faster rehabilitation of 16 injured servicemen and women, […]