Finding purpose
By Deepa Ravi in General Literary | Reads: 1,095 | Likes: 3
COVID19 - today is day 2 of the 21 day lockdown. Boredom takes on a new meaning. Yes already. With 19 more days to go. I have been wandering listlessly around the house from room to room thinking of things that I need to do, stuff to clear, chores to be done. But I have no drive to do anything. Even  Read More...
Published on Mar 27,2020 04:37 PM
House number 13
By Pubali Das gupta in Fantasy | Reads: 1,002 | Likes: 3
Again she had the same dream.She was in a train and needed to use the loo but it was so dirty that she couldn't.The urge woke her up.She looked at the wall clock.It was 3 a.m.How strange.Why did she have to wake up at the same time everyday?Why was a train journey or missing a train a part of her dr  Read More...
Published on Jun 2,2020 01:39 PM
When You Least Expect it.
By Manika Ekka in General Literary | Reads: 970 | Likes: 3
Chaos, hustle bustle ,deaths, fire ,riots ,pandemic, noise ,pollution ,killing ,hanging ,pelting lathis ,cries ,cruelty ,losses ,anger ,hatred ,fear..... she saw this in a wink. Her eyes were red, the vessels around the pupil was clear like the river of blood in Kalinga.. she moved her fingers throu  Read More...
Published on Apr 6,2020 04:03 PM
Finding Feet:By Nitesh
By Nitesh Khargonkar in Poetry | Reads: 887 | Likes: 3
The Sun went down and I was on my own, An evening came to see me and I was stranded all alone. Feeling my heart and in search of my mind, Sometimes wisdom is there but intelligence is just so hard to find. Pulling up your socks is harder than to move a cart, It's then heart & mind realise they   Read More...
Published on Jun 1,2020 09:03 AM
அழகின் வர்ணமே!..
By Dikshita Lakshmi in General Literary | Reads: 863 | Likes: 3
அழகின் வர்ணமே!..   1996....                                                                   &nbs  Read More...
Published on Apr 9,2020 04:33 PM
Glimpse of the moon
By mahi in Poetry | Reads: 849 | Likes: 3
Once upon a time, The window curtains would fly, And the glimpse of the moon, Would calm my raging soul, But now I only see, The  silhouette of skyscrapers, Against the blur of the night, Rising an uneasy feeling, Of being surrounded by the unknown, The days we live in, Have left the mind, To c  Read More...
Published on May 13,2020 07:33 PM
Karma
By Michelle Gomes in Poetry | Reads: 844 | Likes: 3
Penguins wobbled from side to side Newly hatched turtles swam with the tide  Ducks in the streets went quack quack quack When will the humans come back, back, back?   They put us on display and locked the door Their plastic waste littered the ocean floor Their harmful manners and selfish w  Read More...
Published on May 25,2020 03:18 PM
Cur(sed)few
By N.Sowbarnika in General Literary | Reads: 839 | Likes: 3
                         CUR(SED)FEW "Om bhur bhuvaswaha..." the door bell resonated the sanctity of that house. Six legs, two with toes and remaining four without toes, strode towards the door to open it. There stood two brisk uniform  Read More...
Published on Apr 24,2020 12:28 AM
Locked In/ Locked Out
By Tasnima Yasmin in Poetry | Reads: 835 | Likes: 3
                   I Rummaging through my books, I pick up another read, It is breakfast at home, My cosy abode with family, While the telly blares the latest, Stranded migrants in the middle of nowhere, Endless days of tiresome walking, Bag on a sho  Read More...
Published on May 26,2020 07:23 PM
Anastasia
By Ananya Roy in Poetry | Reads: 828 | Likes: 3
Rivers, black and blue run down my body As I stare into the glass, reflecting somebody Morphed beyond recognition; I look like  A human wrapped in a warped leather bag. Yes, that's exactly what I look like, A tattered leather bag,that was born only To reproduce and satitate the urges of A man's  Read More...
Published on May 1,2020 11:05 AM
SOLIDARITY UNDER SCRUTINY
By Eunice Nikhila in General Literary | Reads: 809 | Likes: 3
 (The following piece is not about the Pandemic, it is about us during the Pandemic) Pandemic, a very familiar and most ordinarily used word these days. Yeah? True! It has brought us all together to fight against a deadly virus. Never in our wildest dreams had we imagined, the whole world being  Read More...
Published on May 11,2020 12:53 PM
Brothers
By Geetha M in True Story | Reads: 795 | Likes: 3
Brothers It was 11 a.m. on a Sunday, an unusually warm day for Chennai summer. The earth was still wet from the early morning drizzle. We arrived home from shopping. The screech of the car halt must have shocked the two little cuddled bundles. They shook out of their slumber looking lost. The two li  Read More...
Published on May 17,2020 12:01 AM
Metamorphosis
By Udita Saroha in Poetry | Reads: 793 | Likes: 3
With the stroke of midnight hour We celebrate arrival of a novel 2020. Isn't the new year full of plans? Oh I will be a Globetrotter I will get my driver license I am so going to learn that new language The list is exhaustive. Some disrupting news doing rounds Some danger taking its ground. "Oh whe  Read More...
Published on Jun 3,2020 01:49 AM
listen, If you can, Stay
By Harshita in Poetry | Reads: 792 | Likes: 3
                                         Listen, If you can, Stay I know people cannot be together  For very long these days  Then “we are not meant to be” is what they say.  Read More...
Published on Apr 8,2020 11:12 PM
Midnight in Mumbai
By Alisha in General Literary | Reads: 716 | Likes: 3
Malika tried to steady herself as she swayed across the pavement on Marine Drive. Her body seemed to be moving to the gentle rhythm of the waves hitting the embankment.  Why did I drink so much, she cursed, her vision beginning to get hazy. Just a few more steps and I’ll be home, she thou  Read More...
Published on May 16,2020 10:37 PM
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