Month: December 2021

Editorial

Things Our Politicians Do for Election

By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal Sometimes you can tell a lot about a politician by looking at them, observing their decisions, and especially public behavior which also includes how they interact with media around them. Take PM Modi for example, you will hardly find PM Modi in the same dress […]

Fiction

A Fine Thread

by Jeyamohan and Translated from Tamil by Jegadeesh Kumar  It seemed Bapu was very tired. Didi came and informed that he would sleep early after dinner that night and hence dinner should be made ready earlier. Sohan Ram felt relieved. Bapu’s dinner consisted of two boiled bananas, a cup of […]

Poetry

Motherhood

Divinity euphonize the aura of the birth-giver, A miracle transpires with the pendulum’s chime; A melange of intense pain and shimmer.   Divinity personified in its prime, Not time’s fool; ‘tis a sempiternal bond, Holding thy flesh for nine months and soul for an infinite time.   Unfathomed notions of […]

Poetry

Eclipsed (ग्रहण ग्रसित)

ग्रहण ग्रसित मैं चाहता हूँ चाहना एक बेवकूफ़ाना, तर्क हीन चीज़ अपनी आखों को डुबो लूँ तारपीन में, भर दूँ इनमें पैराफीन मोम सुन्न कर दूँ अपनी जीभ को कि स्वाद का ज़ायका न रहे नकार दूँ सारी खुशबुएँ और आँखों को मोड़ दूँ पीछे की ओर के किसी समय […]

Poetry

Tinted Hues

There  in the receding lanes of memory sprouts  a cheery morn encamped with hues of tinted glory glowing in the burnished sun of refulgent hope  now cooled… but diluted…  with the adulterated winds of stray fumes that burn and char the blundering agony of decaying landscape clustered with rancid pearls […]

Articles

Veteran Journalist Rambhau Joshi Becomes a Centenarian

by Dr. Kiran Thakur Veteran Marathi journalist and author, Rambhau Joshi has become a centenarian as per Hindu panchang, last weekend,  on Margasheersha shuddha Saptami. This article is a tribute to Appa, as he is known in Maharashtra, to be published on December 13, 2021. his 98th birthday as per […]

Poetry

Thank You My Teachers…

Teachers are those living beings, Filled with positive feelings, They spread wisdom and sacrifice their lives, For our happiness, they all strive.   They always let us become a good human, Filled with the flavour of acumen, We are blooms in their garden of love, And we endure beneath their […]