Cupid Played It Well
By Pubali Halder in Romance | Reads: 325 | Likes: 0
It was 22nd of March, 2020, the 'Janta Curfew' day. The clock was striking 1 o'clock at midnight when she suddenly heard the notification pop up on her phone. Purvi was awake, she was having sleepless nights. Whenever she closed her eyes, the thoughts of her poor performance in competitive exams, s  Read More...
Published on Apr 23,2020 07:46 AM
Geography for Beginners
By Subhodeep Mukherjee in Humour & Comedy | Reads: 325 | Likes: 0
It was the first day of our new term. Barring two hopeless ones, the rest of us had smoothly sailed to the tenth grade. The first two periods were over. Next up was Geography. Ever since the news of our regular Geography teacher expecting her first child had become the talk of the town, the only log  Read More...
Published on Apr 2,2020 12:49 AM
Companions
By Seema in General Literary | Reads: 324 | Likes: 0
It was a foggy Monday morning in January. My family had shifted to this house just a few days ago. We have been busy arranging the household and making the place habitable. I was sweeping and cleaning along the front porch. Two old men named Jignu and Manglu were doing patchwork on the dusty road. &  Read More...
Published on May 29,2020 03:04 PM
The Man Behind the Mask
By Vasu in Poetry | Reads: 324 | Likes: 0
In the circus of life, we all play our parts As soon as we are born the show starts For the will of the crowd, our masks we don And get humiliated cause the show must go on I am part of the same circus, I also signed the contract The crowd cheers for me and they all love my act But do they lov  Read More...
Published on May 30,2020 08:57 PM
Showering Thoughts
By Spandan Nath in Poetry | Reads: 323 | Likes: 0
When I stand in the shower, Unclothing ...wet scraps of linen, Naked and alone... Sometimes, stroking myself With the reminisce of you, softness! And water takes over Sliding through me, Filling chasms and eroding wholes tearless... Then, I wonder of unthought of thoughts!  I wonder if you hid  Read More...
Published on May 7,2020 11:02 PM
The girl who....
By khanak upadhyay in True Story | Reads: 315 | Likes: 0
The Girl Who... Don't you find it strange? How your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all?                         A girl who grew up in a desert which was located i  Read More...
Published on May 8,2020 11:50 PM
The Wedding After The War
By Madhu Shruti Mukherjee in Poetry | Reads: 314 | Likes: 0
The Wedding after the War “Faster, you fool! Faster I say” In her wedding dress, bellowed Ms. Holloway. “I have no time; my lover’s coming back from the War We’ll get married today at that little chapel we both adore.” “How long does it take to gather daf  Read More...
Published on Apr 2,2020 07:43 PM
The last meeting
By mikhil scaria in Poetry | Reads: 314 | Likes: 0
This is our last meeting, and a bunch of people gathered here along with me. Do you really know them all?  Regular faces, strange entries, and unexpected sympathies. Shutterbugs annoys  with their flashes. You smell dead, but you look promising in this peace attire. Agony, pain, and moan o  Read More...
Published on Apr 30,2020 06:45 PM
A Night at the Railway Station
By Minakshi Aggrwal in General Literary | Reads: 314 | Likes: 0
As I stood there, at the railway platform, waiting for my train to arrive, I saw a silhouette which looked like that of a person; a dandy, his face wasn't clear due to the flickering lights.  'Atleast there is a person'  I said to myself as it was quarter to twelve and such crowded station  Read More...
Published on May 22,2020 09:10 PM
God is a long poem
By Purnendu Ghosh in General Literary | Reads: 314 | Likes: 0
We often see a thing and feign to have not seen it. This is common phenomenon. We often pretend to have seen a thing even when we have not seen it. This is also a common phenomenon. God, no one has seen, some pretend to have seen, while some assume to have seen. For some god is equal to zero and fo  Read More...
Published on Apr 12,2020 12:35 AM
The escape room
By Manasvi Kumar in Poetry | Reads: 312 | Likes: 0
Nothing is felt here In the escape room Your mind isn't clear To save yourself from you But this escape room Just feels right When you need to escape From what you fright  You'll find many minds  Scraping their existence here When they're nowhere Else to find But this escape room Just f  Read More...
Published on May 6,2020 01:54 PM
Crowned bays
By Kunnil Aysha in Poetry | Reads: 312 | Likes: 0
Hold onto my hand let me show you the world You'll come to know as you grow old For the people in here cries are just another breaking news Your cry won't matter too so don't be amused The person who cares for you is your mother And the person beside you is only you This land used to be filled with   Read More...
Published on Apr 29,2020 10:18 PM
Live and let live
By Shruti Prakash in General Literary | Reads: 310 | Likes: 0
LIVE AND LET LIVE If the below significant incidents from our mythology took place in the present era... Situation 1 Bheeshma pitamaha lied on the bed of arrows and desperately praying to be able to get few drops of water... Arjun being the devoted grandson that he was notwithstanding the pain and  Read More...
Published on Apr 6,2020 09:44 AM
Not on Talking Terms
By Suvankar Ghosh Roy Chowdhury in True Story | Reads: 307 | Likes: 0
My neighbour Mr. Atul Patwari and I are not on talking terms, and I don’t know why. It so happens that I do not feel like talking to him, and I sense it strongly that he too feels the same. For over 17 years, we are seeing one another day in and day out while going out, or coming back, or stan  Read More...
Published on Apr 2,2020 08:58 AM
Good Bye
By Payal Sharma in Thriller | Reads: 304 | Likes: 0
He woke up without the morning coffee on his bed side. It had never happened in 3 years. His coat wasn't ironed and was lying on top of the pool of his dirty laundry. His breakfast wasn't ready and the house was dead silent.  All there was, was the sound of a fluttering paper on the dining tabl  Read More...
Published on Apr 16,2020 11:51 PM
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