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Colour & Trance

By Preeti Kathuria

An artwork and musing that visually expresses the concept of ‘breaking ground’ by using colours.

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.

A Yellow Phenomenon

“Yellow, always so bright and luminous, capturing my attention to show me that insanity is always the path to courage…”

A New Night

By: theriptidemagazine October 15, 2019December 20, 2019

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About unfiltered nights, where gold melts into blue.

The Autumn Leaf

By: theriptidemagazine October 7, 2019October 7, 2019

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He has been sculpted like a painter and painted like a sculptor. All the poetry is for him, for the dead Maple leaf, the thousand stanzas that a poet creates is just for him, the innumerable colors of life, of celebration, of sacrifice, that a painter’s brush creates, is for him. It is for the withered, surrendered, dead Maple leaf.

Pieces

By: Krutika Puranik We are all pieces of what’s left of our parents. Your mother’s eyes, father’s ears, an aunt’s height. I often sit amidst my family and wonder if they see themselves in me. The way I slip a strand of hair discreetly behind my ear, the way my eyes turn into the colour…

Home?

“Home,” she said once again. It didn’t sound like home from her mouth. It sounded like she was taking the name of a place that should’ve never existed.

Pride

By: theriptidemagazine July 4, 2019July 15, 2019

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Gay pride was not born of a need to celebrate being gay, but the right to exist without persecution.

A Soldier’s Trauma

By: theriptidemagazine July 4, 2019July 15, 2019

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“All forty of you be alert. Maybe it is the last time I will be commanding you. You are required to guard the border…”

A memory, a place, a world, friends, adventure, travel, life and love in the netherlands

Serendipity

“That’s just life, being unexpectedly, unassumingly breathtaking…”

An Ode To The Rain

I have always loved you in bits and pieces,
Never full, never all-at-once.

Moonlight

By: theriptidemagazine June 3, 2019June 4, 2019

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Moonlight. Not the moon. Not just yet. I walk on the street. There are buildings. And trees. I dread them in the night. I must’ve shuddered mentally.And I keep walking. And it keeps getting brighter. “Oh God,” I sigh. I don’t know if I want to see it just yet. I like the moonlight. I…