By Q M Jalal Khan
The BNP happens to be the most unlucky in having been betrayed not only by who were once its own people but also by itself, that is, by those who still belong to the party.
Author: Cafe Dissensus Everyday
By Meher Shah
Two women separated by culturally different societies,
kept apart by several oceans
each weaving their craft using different tones.
By Aindrila Chakraborty
The history of Pashmina, which today is globally consumed as an item of luxury, as an item symbolic of Kashmir and Kashmiri culture, is inextricably linked with commodity fetishism, in one of its early forms, entangled with the larger processes of colonialism.
By Amrita Valan
Knowledge is Truth, it germinates
In the soil of free thinking minds,
God’s Holiest Books are we,
Living and loving, weaving parables
By Subhajit Pal
Why is a tourist not allowed to have a bird’s eye-view of the alleged heaven? Is it because of the view of the heavily loaded cantonments might disturb the imagination of a traveller to this heaven?
By Megha Sood
your face is like a poem
those deep lines
etched for eternity
tells a story
written by the verses
deeply lodged in your soul
By Paromita Patranobish
The Sound of A Wild Snail Eating, although written a decade ago, appears to be particularly relevant in terms of the concerns and perspectives it raises for the altered landscape of the pandemic-inflected present.
By K.M. Ziyauddin
As per the Tendulkar Methodology of calculating poverty, Jharkhand has acute poverty in rural areas at 41.6% and in urban at 31.1 % (2009-10).
By Sahil Bansal & Anirban Chanda
Gandhi’s dietetic preference was rooted as much in his curiosity towards food as it was in his will to overcome the British.
By Raunaq Saraswat
The comedy in Ludo rests largely on the shoulders of Aalu, the good-for-everything waiter who blurs the boundaries to fulfill his unrequited love.
By Goirick Brahmachari
Together we could
Change the colours of the words
Change the sharp meanings
Of colours, colourlessness
For all art must melt in sound
By Prithvijeet Sinha
To this writer, as to countless others, Soumitra Dada was a combination of the intellectual and the everyday.
By Shahid Habib
The lack of record keeping among Muslim organizations needs a thorough investigation and analysis, as to why Muslim leaders are so negligent in undertaking this basic task.
By Sanghamitra Bhumana
Make no mistake, when women march
They bend the arc of History,
Make no mistake, it’s Herstory too!
By Muzafar Ahmad Dar & Inamul Haq
What India needs is a national commitment to achieve what Maulana Azad had started as the first education minister of independent India.
By Mithilesh Kumar
It can even be said that it is only when these belligerents – pathogens and governments – engage in a “war” that pandemics are created.
By Sriti Ganguly
A bird in a bowing posture at sunset amused me and made me wonder whether it was in a contemplative mode or merely looking down at its feet to check if it is time for a pedicure.
By Gracy Samjetsabam
They send out a message that the future may be vague but man is determined to stay positive, adapt and adopt, which would bear fruit only if we respond and act in the spirit of “metanoia” and “togetherness”.
By Gabriel Rosenstock
Liberty, what’s this
it looks like a crown of thorns
do you bleed inside
By Nishi Pulugurtha
Of trying times and reaching out – of
Life going awry, yet holding on –
A different time, a quarantine.
