By Vasundhara Singh
A poem on the season of creation: spring! Written using the word for ‘spring’ in multiple languages, and the poet’s interpretation of it.
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A Warm Winter’s Day
By Aalia Jagwani
“The stillness in the room overwhelmed me even as I tried to soak it in. It was the same room I spent every day of my life in, but in that particular moment it felt like I was seeing it all for the first time.”
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The Dialogue
By Aastha K. Pant
A story set in the early days of Covid-19 in Mumbai between Nalini, an employer, and Laxmi, her housekeeper, which illustrates the different experiences and narratives of two women during a seemingly global event.
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Finding Homes Away From Home
By Geeta Lalvani
Live vicariously through adventures and photos of the journey undertaken to find Homes away from Home, in the city of New York.
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Searching For a Stranger
By Vasundhara SinghImage source: Unsplash (portugueseactivity) Part I: The Painter Decadent skies overhead, an encompassing envelope, white fluff dancing about, the silent blue swaying towards an unknown shore. I spot a copy of Ariel by Sylvia Plath and a moment later, I am snatching away at the pages. I am not as reserved with it…
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8:46 AM, 9/11/2001
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.
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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.
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Tigers are Rare
Another December, another tradition, another experience. But will it be different this time? A short photo-story about a tiger in a ghoonghat, and a must-read for our readers who like reading about love.
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Old Gods
“The old gods were asleep, but they are waking up now.” A short and thrilling story of the gods long gone, and forgotten, waking up to the anarchy of today.
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The Death of an Adult
‘Adulthood’ is the most difficult word in any teenagers dictionary. This piece looks at how normal this feeling of apprehension is. For you and legend like Van Vogh alike.
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Jabberwocky
A poem about the Jabberwocky, a metaphor for ‘fear’ from ‘Alice in Wonderland’, and the fearlessness it brings with being slain.
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The Fallacy of A Home
By Vasundhara Singh The undercurrents of a mercurial afternoon were still vibrating under my skin as I sat alongside my father in the back seat of a Toyota car after my last board exam. Almost 5 years have gone by since the tempestuous day but I am often reminded of the friends I left behind…
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