Hey, Chai Anyone?
There was a message outside the Tea Board office in Kolkata. It said, “All time is tea time.” That’s right in India. We hear the chai vendors at all hours...
College Street
Lopamudra presents a series of prose-poems or short vignettes in blank verse based on certain long-standing images of Kolkata, and the US. Here’s the first one of the series, ‘College Street’...
The Litany of Violence
The recent senseless killings, a terror attack, in the French Riviera (Nice) has appalled people around the globe. Mamta recounts the savage violence in verse. In another Continent Like a leitmotif...
Summer Grill: Wholesome, Healthy Food
The joy of cooking and eating outdoors is a land of white winters is immense. Here Anumita shares gourmets’ delight, the recipes of grilled fish, poultry, mutton, paneer and vegetables...
Caste and Torture
The National Human Rights Commission (2011) notes that from 2001 to 2010, there were 4,034 custodial deaths and 1,836 cases of custodial torture registered in India. The worst affected state...
Child Molestation
Here’s a protest poem by Farah against child molestation. Oh Lord! Is this the World that you created? Where you yourself are not safe Where inoffensive offspring are markedly...
Water
A soulful poem by Tripti. Water is the most dynamic element of nature. It teaches us adaptation, without any shape or color it can adjust anywhere, take any colour…yet...
Monsoon Memories: A Letter to Paper Boat
The essential romantic in us celebrates and serenades the rain. Blue Eve reminisces the monsoon, days of torrential rains, her little paper boat and more. She walks down the...
The Fight
Bhawini talks of a warrior and his remanences of home in this poem. Rays of hope assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors. The tall mystic enemy is at...
A Hard Look at Practical Secularism
To be a secular individual, one has to come to the support of all citizens, whether those who suffered in 2002 and equally those who suffered in 1984 or 1990....