By Sonnet Mondal
The city leans over the Yamuna
to clean its wounds.
By Tanveer Khan & Wasia Hamid
People in Kashmir have assigned a significance to the hanging of coloured water bottles with the belief that it would protect them from the evil eye, coronavirus, crackdown, and encounters.
By Anjali V Raj
Those who fill their conscience with the fake act of selflessness by saving nature and those who are hesitant to care for the betterment of others, it is important to realize that neither we are selfless nor considerate of other life forms.
By Priyanka Yadav
Guddo is every young girl I see in our society today. Aspiring but always underestimated. Free but overprotected.
By Sneha Yadav
In times of the pandemic, Nepal exerting its claims on Indian Territory can be a reflection of Nepal’s failure in combating the Covid-19 situation on ground.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
There is a sense of despondency in many of the stories, of deafening defeat that shatters and a faint flicker of hope that glimmers and fades. Modestly priced and well mounted, the volume makes for a breezy reading.
By Mehreen Ahmed
Diachronically, the term Hindu alluded to nationhood, a political terminology, which had nothing to do with the Hindu religion as such.
By Prithvijeet Sinha
Soaked in silences, The Lunchbox is uplifting modern cinema that stays true to its humanist heart and hardly loses touch with it. It bundles wit, personal discovery, practical wisdom and unrequited desires.
By Javid Majeed
As the pandemic continues, it is important to support children and adolescents facing bereavement and issues related to parental unemployment or loss of household income.
By Aafiya Siddiqui
Now I envy the lamenting pens
And pheonix tears of mourning eyes
For mine have dried
Turning the fissure of heart
into deep voids.
By Mohammed Mishad K
While Macbeth gives an opulence of linguistic vigour, Akira Kurosawa’s film is a landmark in cinematic visual brilliance.
By Madhu Singh
Whereas The Plague became a bestseller in Corona crisis across the globe with publishers rushing reprints, not much is known about Sartre’s Typhus French playscript which was published in 2007 having vanished from sight for almost sixty years.
By Somok Roy
Nepal could plausibly be an intimate other, thanks to its Hindu credentials – the difference could just be of a cartographic border, and not a pressing alterity in which the other is also a dangerous threat, the abnormal.
By Anindita Das
The departmental stores in Kolkata appeared ‘tiny and crowded’ in comparison to Walmart or Sam’s. All of a sudden the crowd that he had grown up around seemed ‘intimidating’.
By Anasuya Bhar
The horse, always hardworking, could have signified the struggling self of the artist as well. To Ghosh the horse is also an emblem of fantasy, those creatures of the imagination who he could always saddle with a pair of wings reminiscent of the fabled Pokkhiraaj or the Pegasus.
By Mitali Chakravarty
Why perpetrate borders drenched in blood
while Lalon only sings of Humanity and Love?
By Sarpreet Kaur
Many divorces happen in the modern age not because of a particular reason but because of the lack of reasoning.
By Priyanka Yadav
Stuti (name changed), a class 6 student from a remote village, sighs as she says, “Ma’am sends me worksheets but sometimes I am unable to understand the questions because she sends an audio file on WhatsApp. Maybe if she could send a video, it will be comprehensible to me.”
By Michael R. Burch
At last, done with learning, I stumbled
to a well where the waters seemed sweet:
the mirage of American “justice.”
There I wept a real sea, in defeat.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
The lockdown has put brakes to much of all the hair grooming that many of us are used to. A dear friend who called up this morning announced that she had decided not to colour her hair anymore.
