General Literary

The beginning of the lockdown
By Kamakshi Kamath in General Literary | Reads: 248 | Likes: 0
I cry myself to sleep these days  Missing my father who left us last year Thinking of my Mother who is alone right now. I cannot fly to her like I most often do, the country is on a lockdown.  It breaks my heart to see her postpone my fathers shradha (Death anniversary)which she has been  Read More...
Published on Jun 5,2020 10:34 PM
Garbha
By Gayathri Devi Dutt in General Literary | Reads: 231 | Likes: 0
Ma, Ma, let me out please, cried a fragile voice.I paused and started looking around to recognise the voice source. The voice emerged again and again, gradually picking up sound, into the pattern of sound waves, creating ripples. Ripples in air!! The ripple size was unmeasurable but extended far eno  Read More...
Published on Jun 8,2020 12:49 AM
NOT ALL SURVIVE
By Karishma Sharma in General Literary | Reads: 214 | Likes: 0
This is AVINASH, a family person who was living his life on his own terms and was content and  happy with whatever he had. But not every story is so simple and happening.  It was a fine and obviously a good morning. We left  for the hospital and everything was soo perfect. After three  Read More...
Published on Jun 5,2020 11:11 PM
THE EPHEMERAL GLOOM
By CHITRA MISHRA SHARMA in General Literary | Reads: 797 | Likes: 0
The day finally came. Tonight was the night. She had been given the rays to reckon and reflect, literally. She had to rise, gathering all that she had been bestowed upon. She knew it all, she was well-versed with all of it, but tonight, she knew the sheen would be overshadowed. Yes, on the very nigh  Read More...
Published on Jun 5,2020 11:22 PM
The burning nights
By Rajlakhmee Borah in General Literary | Reads: 361 | Likes: 0
It's a normal Monday morning and I wake up with somewhat laziness. Each day just repeats itself and I watch it do so. I often think will I ever go home? Or will I always be stranded? Stranded in a house with four walls that I have stared every night as I lay on my bed and thoughts swarm in. I feel l  Read More...
Published on Jun 6,2020 01:42 AM
Urgency
By Shyamala in General Literary | Reads: 252 | Likes: 0
"Hey, it's urgent." He shouted.He was in his verge to get ready for the office. She was sitting relaxedly in the  first steps of the verandah. That was her private place, because from that place she could view all her little friends white rose,yellow rose, jasmine, Daliya, etc,. That may be the  Read More...
Published on Jun 6,2020 01:06 PM
What I see
By vyshnavi in General Literary | Reads: 279 | Likes: 1
What I see is the world which is beyond my imagination What I see the hope of someone to live with freedom What I see is love which is bounded in the walls of heart waiting for to express What I see is fire that goes with someone  which can destroy others  What I see the world through my e  Read More...
Published on Jun 6,2020 11:55 AM
A MORNING WITH ONE SHOE !!
By varshi pidugu in General Literary | Reads: 752 | Likes: 13
10:45pm on sunday night ... The door bell rang ! Shobna opened the door and krishna entered the house ,fully drenched in rain .As soon as he entered he started giving instructions to shobna to keep his one and only suit and his only pair of Shoes ready by 7:00 AM next morning as he has a very import  Read More...
Published on Jun 6,2020 02:41 PM
Shadows
By sonam kushwaha in General Literary | Reads: 346 | Likes: 1
My shadow teaches me don't trust anyone When I leave you in the darkness, why else would anyone support you? My shadow teaches me not to trust anyone, when your own part is not with you in the darkness, what else will there be?  Read More...
Published on Jun 6,2020 01:23 PM
Queen of the kingdom : Kitchen
By Deepa Bansal in General Literary | Reads: 543 | Likes: 1
Rani n Sarita were very good friends.They met after a long time in a vegetable market.They were very happy to see eachother. But soon Rani had to say to her to go home as she had to prepare food and if she got late she will b scolded. Hearing this Sarita got surprised as Rani of school time was tota  Read More...
Published on Jun 6,2020 04:00 PM
Happy feet
By Pooja Kirpekar in General Literary | Reads: 530 | Likes: 5
They said: Black and shiny; polished and fitting. I said: Oh wait, Are you talking about the shoes I put on today or your notion of me? Just another day in all our lives but then again,such an overwhelming amount of adulation for one day! All I knew when I stumbled away from the doorway today was th  Read More...
Published on Jun 6,2020 06:28 PM
And the girl disappeared
By vertica asthana in General Literary | Reads: 417 | Likes: 2
She got down from her auto rickshaw and ran towards the staircase leading to metro station. There was a laptop bag in her right hand and a lunchbox. Thursday evening was usual day, but then something very unusual happened. Vedika got down from her autorickshaw and was rushing towards the metro stat  Read More...
Published on Jun 6,2020 10:38 PM
A silent tale
By Smriti Sharma in General Literary | Reads: 184 | Likes: 0
A hot day in the month of May.Suraksha woke up to the sound of the alarm. She had breakfast, got dressed and left for school. It was a long tiring day. Girls were getting selected for the school badminton team and she had managed to get selected. She was happy and as she returned home in the school  Read More...
Published on Jun 6,2020 11:08 PM
Interfaith Dialogue, Covid-19 Pandemic,and the Dawoodi
By Yusuf Umrethwala in General Literary | Reads: 275 | Likes: 3
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the student-run elocution club of Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah of Surat organised an online webinar titled ‘Interfaith Dialogue and Covid-19 Pandemic: An International History Perspective’ on 24 May 2020 from 4 to 6pm Indian standard time. The presenter was Dr Mustafa  Read More...
Published on Jun 9,2020 02:20 AM
Maa
By Prajna paramita dey in General Literary | Reads: 347 | Likes: 0
When sometimes baba swung me higher, my little eye searched for your presence. You are a comfortable cushion when I fall. Hundreds of stars are needed to complete the sky, but one mother is enough to make the better generation. The water in her womb is my 1st home.. She bared all my kicks. Mother is  Read More...
Published on Jun 7,2020 11:29 AM
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