Beyond a Point
A poem of hope that dispels all despondency by Elsy for Different Truths. Beyond a point, things get past caring. Who will water the saplings so lovingly tended? Who...
Retrobrowsings: Different Times for Different Truths
Neelum revisits an editorial by Anees Jung, in Youth Times, in October 1976. The author states that if last week’s column had occasionally felt like a strange journey into a...
Three Asanas and the Mystery of Chakra Dhyan Unraveled
Navodita, our Yoga expert, reveals the benefits of three asanas, Utthita Trikonasana, which stimulates the region around the abdomen making digestion quicker and faster. It is also very good for the...
Lakshmi Slogged in a tea Kiosk, Educated Children, Bought two Houses
Surmounting many odds, 40-year- old Lakshmi, helped her husband manage the wayside tea kiosk. Two helper boys were fudging accounts. They were thrown out and she put her shoulder to the...
A Flaming Saga of a Soul on Fire
In this evocative verse Mamta depicts the pain and agony of women. A dark poem with a ray of light, a slice of hope, at the end. Grief familiar soul...
Three Women and Their Passion to Excel: Women as Engines of Social Change – II
Fired by fierce passion and never-say- die attitude made simple next-door girls, achievers. They are gutsy and spunky. Maya profiles three such women, a dog trainer who broke the glass ceiling...
A Weekend Trip to Poland and a Lonesome Birthday in a Beautiful Land
Wanderlust Abhijit decides to spend a weekend in Poland. He wanted to see and feel the beautiful eastern European country’s capital, Warsaw, all on his own. A casual chat with...
Our Lords and Masters
A hard-hitting protest poem by Nigerian poet, Olaitan. They chorus with their tongues Beneath their jaws: ‘We will fight For your peace’ Behind covered doors, They scrabble our pains,...
Rape: How to Prevent and Find Solution to this Menace?
Ninety three women are raped in India every day according to the National Crime Records Bureau data. Rape strips the woman and her family of dignity. It’s an unending torture....
There is a House in New Orleans, They Call it the Rising Sun…
Sukanya takes us through a getaway to New Orleans with her children. They drove to their vacation destination, crossing the 18.2 miles long Atchafalaya Bridge, the second largest bridge in the...