GENDER PERSPECTIVE ON HOME AND THE WORLD
I believe words acquire some strange power in a poem. While a poem may leave one wonder-struck with insights that are otherwise inaccessible, strangely the experience in the poem also seems familiar! Each word chosen for the poem presents the sense, the colour and the feel of the experience almost in a tactile fashion. When strung together, these words in the …
A Note on my Creative Journeys — Sukrita Read More“So, what’s new?” He asked casually. “New? Oh….everything…..everyone…like….there….”, he replied equally casually jostling his way from the platform. Nupur was inching her way into the coach of her home-bound train and looking around for a place. One vacant seat reserved for senior citizens….no, not for me. She stood on the side, content that she was inside because the platform kept …
The Chasm — Shashi Khuranna Read MoreThe Dogs of Ajitgarh (The Mutiny Memorial, the gothic tower built in Delhi to commemorate the 3000-odd English officers and men who were killed in suppressing the rebellion known as theFirst War of Independence of 1857, killing hundreds of thousands of the residents of the city and the rebel soldiers, stands a few metres uphill along the Ridge Road from …
Poems of Delhi-Series — A.J. Thomas Read MoreTo tell you the truth, I wanted to write the story of my father but it eventually took the shape of my grandfather’s story. Whether you believe it or not, whosoever I write about from the last three generations of my family, in the end, it will become the story of my grandfather. That is because these three generations …
The Legend — Abhishek Kashyap Read Moreचंदन पांडे का उपन्यास `वैधानिक गल्प’ आज के भारत के उस पहलू को सामने लाता है जिसमें वैधानिक और अवैधानिक यानी कानूनी और गैरकानूनी के बीच का फर्क मिटता जा रहा है। दूसरे शब्दों में कहें तो गैरकानूनी को कानूनी जामा पहनाया …
वैधानिक में प्रवेश करता अवैधानिक- रवीन्द्र त्रिपाठी Read MoreA Raaga of Love A heartless stone-cutter Chisels the stones gently, In another time and place Lovers locked in an eternal embrace Have turned fossils Almost Banality of language Cannot capture the sublime magic of love Now, I mean this simple, straightforward No pun intended But the reader will forcefully read between the lines, That is …
Antithesis — Rati Agnihotri Read MoreBear With The Fish Out At the centre of the earth The two hands cup together to hold a beating heart The bear of the night with its fur standing out for the fish that dare pass the stream at night But do the fish have a given time to swim? Do they always go with the flow? Or do …
New Grammar and Other Poems — Anjora Khatri Read MoreOur family owned the town’s oldest tannery. It had a large backyard. We dealt in leather. We bought the hides of dead animals and sold cured leather. The business was good. Carts rumbled in and out of our yard at all hours of the day. Throughout the day …
The Tanner’s Yard — Deepak Sharma Read MorePortrait of the Day It has rained all day All day water has poured from the swollen eyes of universe Little Shantu has asked more than once If it is the tears of or grieving mother He wonders if the still laments for the living As living ones do for the dead All day, The branches of the …
Portrait of the Day — Savita Singh Read More“My identity is in question here….I don’t overrate my scholarship but yes, I trust my knowledge. Let people object, let them say that I am an overreacher, let them say that I am the first in the Rishikul, in the lineage of saint Vachkanu to participate in a shastrartha, a hermeneutic debate and that too with this scholar of repute, …
C/O Swat Valley By Manisha Kulshrestha Read More