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Here & Now

By Haritha Sara Kuriakose

Being in the present means being a work in progress. This poem describes the mindfulness of truly revelling in the here and now.

You Choose

By Ramitha Ramesh

…Like Freud once said, “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” …

A Thank You, and Goodbye

By Anusha Kala

A truly heartfelt letter to Sushant Singh Rajput by a fan who resonates with what everyone has been feeling post his demise.

A Beguiling Breaking Ground

By Ekasmayi Naresh

Life has certainly taken a spin, and these groundbreaking turn of events have been expressed in this poem, as nature re-enters the limelight.

Heart Spoke Up!

By Tanvi Ghotage

Groundbreaking isn’t just about the big things in life, sometimes the small achievements and milestones are just as worthy of earning the term ‘breaking ground’.

The Average American: The Red White and Blue with Stars Edit

Sometimes when we die, our things still retain a part of us. And sometimes, the death is so sudden, that the proof of our being still lingers on these inanimate objects: a piece on the devastating moment of 8:46 AM, on 9/11 – and what it did to a common American’s life.

Finding Spectrums

A musing about different colors, and each of the meanings attached to them; and the quest for going beyond the shades, and into a spectrum.

Time, watch, watchglass, or a pocket watch in a gloved hand

Time Through Tinted Lenses

A poem about the spectrum of living, growing, and thriving – all through life, through time in multicolour as colours turn to metaphors.

The Heavens

Couple a boring Applied Mechanics with a particularly imaginative wandering mind, and you have a beautifully descriptive poem about Heaven!

Philosophize

Have you ever been caught in the endless spiral of overthought? In this piece, Tanya explores that feeling with a beautiful journey of introspection. “We can’t let pain and trauma become so familiar to us that we forget that happiness is a choice.”

Everyday Disjuncture

A journal series of photos, capturing the day-to-day coping of an individual, and the process of coming to terms with the distress of quarantine, a pandemic, and closure/endings.

‘Untitled’

A personal reflection on the past few weeks

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