by Tannaz Mahreen Nuzhat had never understood the Instagram textposts that romanticized the summer. The people who wrote verses upon verses on mangoes and humidity that felt like a lost loved one’s embrace had clearly not lived through a Guwahati July. The classroom she was sitting in helped her imagine […]
Month: September 2021
The Kohinoor
by Achinta Sutradhar Animesh Chatterjee was having his breakfast at a roadside Dhaba on Jalandhar Amritsar highway. As he was tearing and putting a bite on hot aloo paratha with curd, pickle, and butter, he heard some noise and shouts at the courtyard of Dhaba just four to five charpoy’s […]
On Teachers’ Day
by Debdoot Mukherjee The oldest of the memories that I have about my school days are not chronologically set but are arranged in a manner that is similar to the arrangement of beads in a beautiful necklace. To think of and to point out a single one will do injustice to […]
Bibliophile
In a very lonely childhood time My sole companions were the books They kept me totally entertained I was lost to a world hidden in a nook This friendship was to last forever The books had never forsaken me Whenever I was down the dump Under their wings, they’ve […]
Uncertainty
In a world that is constantly changing it is futile for us to stay clinging to the expectations that we aspire and the things that we desire. The house we own and place we dwell be it as joyful heaven or wicked hell we must one-day bid farewell when […]
Shearing
It is time to harvest Beeping sounds at Polling booths Warmed handshakes Porcelain smiles Wafts of change Time to shear The goats of scape Fed with rotten things Once frolicking In slums of universities Smugness implored At inebriated dens Sheared for a cashmere scarf To muffle them forever. ~Amol […]
Postcards
She invested in postcards, particularly those with European landscapes. She would gaze at the Positano, the Svartisen glacier and the Dordogne river valley for hours after meticulously pinning them to the wall above her writing desk. Solacing herself with exquisite pictures, stroking every landscape, passionately, wistfully, running her […]
Without Saying a Bye
At the last day… He looked deeply into my eyes… At the moment , when my heart starts to stings loudly…. Tears are rolling through my cheeks without saying a word… I saw death in his eyes… He slowly walked away from my life Without saying a Bye. […]
Panorama
By Anuradha S. Bannore from Vadodara, India
संतों का संग
संतों का संग ही मोक्ष का कारण है। संत वे हैं जिनके मन चंचलता से मुक्त हैँ , जो लोभ से मुक्त हैं, जिन्होंने इच्छा पर विजय प्राप्त की है, जिन्होंने अपनी इंद्रियों और आंतरिक प्रकृति को नियंत्रण में लाया है, जो भगवान के प्रति समर्पित हैं, जिन्हें किसी चीज […]