Lockdown
By Cindrella Dsouza in General Literary | Reads: 715 | Likes: 1
Few lines on lockdown O man where are you running. Behind what?  money, fem, opportunities, big house, big car, big name, and big status. Indeed you ran for all of these but you have forgotten a very precious thing in your life, your family, kids, wife, and parents no time for them. You have   Read More...
Published on Apr 15,2020 11:19 PM
Umbilical connect
By yashmin Pattnaik in Poetry | Reads: 715 | Likes: 0
UMBILICAL CONNECT She smiles with tears in eyes, She weeps with nectar in heart, She greets with unbound cheers, Piousness never falling apart; She is a mother. They say the first day with you is best. Eyes half shut body begging for rest. Next day eyes peeping through the crib; And that novel surre  Read More...
Published on Apr 17,2020 12:48 AM
Cupid Played It Well
By Pubali Halder in Romance | Reads: 715 | Likes: 0
It was 22nd of March, 2020, the 'Janta Curfew' day. The clock was striking 1 o'clock at midnight when she suddenly heard the notification pop up on her phone. Purvi was awake, she was having sleepless nights. Whenever she closed her eyes, the thoughts of her poor performance in competitive exams, s  Read More...
Published on Apr 23,2020 07:46 AM
Roots!
By Sana Malhotra in General Literary | Reads: 715 | Likes: 0
We often live in so much need of practicality and the need to walk up higher and higher that we forget what we are actually made of. We are not some sparkle and shine that the world has in store for us. We are made to spread the sparkle and shine that we are born with. Our roots define us. Our ances  Read More...
Published on Apr 25,2020 08:37 AM
WHO ARE YOU?
By Mansi K. Panani in General Literary | Reads: 715 | Likes: 1
Who are you? No, I do not want to know the version of you that exists to meet the standards of the society neither do I want to know the version of you that makes you fit into a tribe comfortably. I want to know who you really are, the version that makes you, you. The society set pre-existing s  Read More...
Published on Apr 25,2020 04:07 PM
candle in the dark
By Shaurya Agarwal in Poetry | Reads: 715 | Likes: 1
When everything seems dark from inside we feel stark Our nightmares make us remember our traumatized past When the feelings of guilt, remorse, sadness and regret settle like a stone on our chest we feel like we are inhalingpoisonous thoughts in our every breaththe world would be a terrible placeand   Read More...
Published on May 5,2020 10:42 PM
Pain
By ratna singh in Poetry | Reads: 715 | Likes: 0
I know you will leave , but can you please let me down slowly ?Leave me when i am fall asleep , when you are sure that i won't ever wake up again so that i just don't feel the pain .  Read More...
Published on May 7,2020 08:08 PM
COURAGE IN THE TIME OF CORONA.
By Shravanthi Reddy in General Literary | Reads: 715 | Likes: 0
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." reminds Maya Angelou. It conveys that whatever has happened cannot be unlived or changed; whether happy, sad, or painful it is over and done and we must part with it in acceptance.   Read More...
Published on Jun 3,2020 05:06 PM
Coronavirus: What Lies Beyond March 31 or 15th April?
By CHINMAY CHAKRAVARTY in True Story | Reads: 714 | Likes: 0
For the first time ever the public transport system of the second most populated country and the largest democracy of the world, India, has come to a complete standstill—the biggest railway network of the world, Indian Railways, has stopped operating since the last two days and domestic flight  Read More...
Published on Mar 24,2020 02:05 PM
pause.
By Gauri Walecha in Poetry | Reads: 714 | Likes: 0
Your song is a choir of rushed strokes of black  hollow  paint  on a white  anxious canvas  dangling free. Free.  From a  lone nail on a brick wall standing old behind  the house of your dreams. You bury the dead behind it. They rise up  as demons on sta  Read More...
Published on Mar 26,2020 05:47 PM
Find me a place
By Ushashi Chakraborty in Poetry | Reads: 714 | Likes: 0
Find me a place inside your heart For the times when I'm not with you, Let my soul fit in a cosy corner  To give you company On our darkest days, With words left unspoken - When the distance between our minds Becomes too long for words to reach us.   Read More...
Published on Mar 28,2020 10:18 PM
Imposed quarantine
By Urvashi Tulsiyan in Poetry | Reads: 714 | Likes: 0
Everything was a rush A race against time To school to nap In between there's no gap In this chaos, I forgot I didn't remember who's she What she likes, her ideas Her friends her taste buds All were a mystery for me And suddenly everything stopped It came to a sudden halt Like somebody pulled that c  Read More...
Published on Mar 31,2020 10:50 PM
Dosti.
By Eshaan in Poetry | Reads: 714 | Likes: 1
Kadar kar, jataa matt. Fikar kar, dikha matt. Tu chahta hai ki dosti rhe toh, Mohabbat kar, bata Matt.   Read More...
Published on Apr 7,2020 10:47 PM
What is religion?
By Sana Malhotra in General Literary | Reads: 714 | Likes: 0
A human without humanity is not religious. The one who follows, practices and projects humanity. Religion is to serve one another. You glow different when you have grace and blessings which you earn through your acts of kindness. You were never born as Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs or Christians or any oth  Read More...
Published on Apr 9,2020 09:34 PM
I'D RATHER
By Sunu Limboo in Poetry | Reads: 714 | Likes: 1
I'd rather climb the hill and feel the dread running down my spine, than to clap; calling out their names and reiterating else's hymn. I'd rather dive the lake and freeze my bones out of excitement, than to hear a story of a boy who survived a drown with no implement. I'd rather steady my branches a  Read More...
Published on Apr 14,2020 11:22 PM
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