"ALL LOVE IS EXPANSION, ALL SELFISHNESS IS CONTRACTION"
By Nameera Sallum in General Literary | Reads: 982 | Likes: 0
''All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction'',  these lines are stated by Swami Vivekananda, In my opinion, love has the power to expand life, it is the basis of creation and expansion of our being, love expands as you give love out, it's received and reciprocated and it grows. That  Read More...
Published on Apr 4,2020 06:59 PM
Rain
By Aneri in Poetry | Reads: 981 | Likes: 0
There's this distinct light in me that goes on when I smell the rain.  I go out and press my toes in the mud,  letting it soak up the past.  I go in all whites, as the water celebrates the swells on my body the one's I've learnt to be ashamed of.  And I let go of all that isn't h  Read More...
Published on Apr 9,2020 10:14 AM
A Bookoholics world
By hiya shah in General Literary | Reads: 980 | Likes: 0
I squeezed myself on the chair, adjacent to his. Penning a few words as he poured his desires out. We were a foot afar yet his mouthed tales slide me miles beyond. It may seem queer but a struggling writer in the age of technology would still travel for an hour in the ever crowded metro's just to ca  Read More...
Published on Apr 13,2020 01:53 AM
Forgotten girl
By Debashree Roy in Poetry | Reads: 980 | Likes: 0
Standing alone as an traveller, or the girl who was forgotten. I walked with you everyday but my steps not been discovered. I cry, I laugh  with the fillings I borrow  But as an forgotten girl I stood, alone in this world, like a traveller trapped in woods, searching for a dearer path. I  Read More...
Published on May 8,2020 07:49 PM
There are days...
By Neelima Chakraborty in Poetry | Reads: 979 | Likes: 0
There are days When dreams sneak behind the door That has been unopened for ages Gathering dust, nonplussed With the storm that it has weathered. There are days When the little voice Can't stop singing Coaxing the dream to peek through The window and look... Look at the luscious blue There are days   Read More...
Published on Mar 23,2020 11:17 AM
An Empty Room
By Hritik Dutta in General Literary | Reads: 979 | Likes: 0
The room of a child. Warm yellow sunlight from the window illuminates toys scattered across the floor. There are pillows thrown all over the room even though there is a bed in the corner. The bedsheets have almost completely fallen on the floor. On the table beside the bed is a toy airplane with the  Read More...
Published on Mar 27,2020 02:15 AM
Lockdown Diaries - Week 1
By Sonia Keswani in General Literary | Reads: 978 | Likes: 0
COVID just began in our country:  Well,in the wake of COVID'19,does anyone even care which caste, creed or color do we belong to? Prayers, treatments and help involving everyone just as humans. Isn't it nature's own way to make us realize the importance of love,respect & brotherhood to safe  Read More...
Published on Mar 30,2020 09:53 AM
Asleep
By Tanisha Chaudhuri in Crime | Reads: 978 | Likes: 0
Dear Maa, By now you might have found my body hanging from the same creaky fan which I had once hit with my football when I was nine. Remember that day? Remember how the marks of your hands had not left my cheek until a dozen days? Not so good, old days, I guess. Anyways, you might be wondering wha  Read More...
Published on May 7,2020 03:20 PM
Mother
By Vibhuti Vaid in Poetry | Reads: 978 | Likes: 0
A word that contains the whole world  A word that is everyone’s world A word that is an ocean of love A word that is as pure as a dove A word that is a family’s pride A word that is a little one’s delight A word that is God’s second name  Innumerable tasks she alone  Read More...
Published on May 8,2020 12:44 AM
To my future self
By Shamama Khan in True Story | Reads: 976 | Likes: 0
Hello,    To the future me, who has become someone independent, someone infamous, someone with a better half or even someone with tiny tots. I want you to pat yourself back and appreciate how beautifully you've come out of it!   This is your very own daily sketch, your time of the day  Read More...
Published on Apr 13,2020 09:08 PM
THE FORGOTTEN ONES
By Colonel Dr Ramanan Duraiswami in Poetry | Reads: 976 | Likes: 0
Thousands of miles away from home, They seek their El Dorado. Alien, distant streets they roam. No familiar place to go.   They live in wretched shantytowns, A blue sheet over their heads. No protection when the rain pours down, Mother Earth their only beds.   Silently they toil all d  Read More...
Published on May 14,2020 07:49 PM
My First Flight
By Tamanna Mohanty in General Literary | Reads: 973 | Likes: 0
The shrill tone of the telephone woke me up from my nap. I sat upright and tried to trace back to reality. "Why are you blaming me? I didn't ruin your son." I scratched my little head. Who is she talking to? I tiptoed to the door of the room where mom was sitting on bed, phone to her ears. I could  Read More...
Published on May 9,2020 02:11 PM
Her Ink
By Neha Varadharajan in Mystery | Reads: 972 | Likes: 0
The blue ink bottle lay beside her notebook, and the ancient quill quivered as she started writing out her soul and feelings of love,confusion and hatred. It started with happiness which couldn't be expressive in words. The days with the people she loved and the nights of satisfactory chererfulness   Read More...
Published on May 12,2020 06:19 PM
Dark-ness
By Sharvari Marathe in Poetry | Reads: 971 | Likes: 0
You might be in a dark place Boxed within the walls But the darkness is the creation of your sight The boxed wall the creation of your fear Hold up whatever it is that you got Project it through the perspective of light Break through your own limits of vision And you will begin to see the beauty  Read More...
Published on Apr 13,2020 08:44 PM
The tireless and selfless trains
By Mousumi Biswas in Poetry | Reads: 970 | Likes: 0
My entry for the 3rd  phase of the  contest Over  the rocky terrains , Across the sandy deserts, Along the  blue crystal streams, And along the lush green fields, Running across North to South, And East to West The train never seems to rest Except when it halts at the station Wh  Read More...
Published on Jun 12,2020 11:11 PM
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