The Chasm — Shashi Khuranna

  “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 …

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Poems of Delhi-Series — A.J. Thomas

The 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 …

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वैधानिक में प्रवेश करता अवैधानिक- रवीन्द्र त्रिपाठी

                                        चंदन 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 …

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Antithesis — Rati Agnihotri

  A 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 …

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Give Your Daughters Difficult Names — Assétou Xango

  Give your daughters difficult names. Names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name does not allow me to trust anyone who cannot pronounce it right.”       —Warsan Shire   Many of my contemporaries, role models, But especially, Ancestors   Have a name that brings the tongue to …

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The Tanner’s Yard — Deepak Sharma

                                                          Our 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 …

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Like a City reflected in a Mirror: Absolute Non-Dual Philosophy of Kashmir Trika Śaivism — Dr. Alka Tyagi

                                                     Adiguru Saṃkaracarya (788-820) in his devotional composition Nirvanaṣtakaṃ announces that individual being ‘I’ is Supreme Being ‘Siva’ (Sivoham, Sivoham…), but in his philosophical system, Advaita Vedānta he says that this world is a false superimposition on the pure Supreme Reality. The world is a falsehood (anṛta) and …

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