Different Truths - Different Truths

July 16, 2016
Lopamudra Banerjee
Poem

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’...

July 15, 2016
Mamta Joshi
Poem

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...

July 15, 2016
Anumita Roy
Food

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...

July 14, 2016
Lenin Raghuvanshi
Advocacy, Subaltern & Dalits

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...

July 14, 2016
Farah Siddiqui M
Poem

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...

July 13, 2016
Dr. Tripti Sharan
Poem

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...

July 12, 2016
Bhawini Tripathi
Poem

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...

July 11, 2016
Amitanshu Gour
Opinion, Politics

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....

July 11, 2016
Lily Swarn
Poem

Golden Staircase

An enigmatic poem from Lily that weaves magic with potent metaphors. Threads of live electric currents Raw and potent Throbbing with charges Penetrating persistently Into magical realms of eternity...

July 10, 2016
Urooj Murtaza
Music

Amjad Sabri: The Qawwali and Sufi Maestro Silenced to Death

Amjad Sabri was slayed by unidentified motorcycle borne assailants on Wednesday, June 22 afternoon, at Karachi. The news of his death cast a gloom across the borders. Many Bollywood...

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