The Unsinkable

|Anisha Gupta| The piece below is inspired by the Romance/Drama movie “Titanic,” released in 1997, based on a real-life poignant and tragic occurrence of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. Kate Winslet is the main fictional character- Rose DeWitt Bukater and Leonardo De Caprio as Jack Dawson. The piece is written from theContinue

The Battle Within

Mahak Poonia Everyone and everything fights. Sometimes for air, sometimes for space, sometimes for love and rights. But how does it feel when the battle is with oneself. When you aren’t fighting the forces outside you, but your own soul since the day you realized that you were different. What happens when you battle forContinue

Improvements of a Poetic News Report That Will Never Be Me.

Jaya Narayan (Originally compiled in found poetry form) 3267 words and 900 compositions,  then you will be a performance art.  Writer whose words fill  the Cauldrons of the  World’s Best Scholars’  evaluations.  The formations of your words  written from  hours of sitting in front of his laptop                                                        trying,  hopes for consistency and word counts  BECOME Continue

Rendezvous with the Night

Shruti Each time I see the sky  Brimming with the celestial bodies, I can feel my heart radiating exhilaration. As I recall the days which helped me shape who I am, air embraces my face, negating the fatalism. Gradually, the moon flexes its face As the cloud cover dissipates, It reminds me how one shouldn’tContinue

हिचकिचाहट…!

| करुणा शर्मा | संपादक | मैं कहने से कुछ हिचकिचाई सी हूं, नारी जाति पर कुछ अभिशाप सी हूं। क्या तुम मुझे कायर कहोगी या अपने हक के लिए मुझसे भी अड़ोगी, तुम कब तक ‘नारी हूं’ के नाम पर इंसाफ से लड़ोगी ? नारी हो तुम – खूबसूरती और स्वाभिमान तुम्हारा गहना है, पर अन्यायी होने काContinue

SLAVES OF FEAR

Althi Asraya Have you ever felt claustrophobic of your own thoughts? Did you ever suffocate of the thoughts of some hypothetical situation your mind just cooked up? At the end of the day, we all are haunted by our very own tiny yet monstrous fears just in our minds. As much productive as your thoughtsContinue

Things lie behind

Divyanshi Jain A lustre, a glowA little blowOver the faceAn epiphanyA revelationOf truths you behold.A shine, a glitterDon’t let it litterYour mind, your soulFrom lies that are hidden. By: Divyanshi Jain, B.A. (Hons) History, 2nd Year Image Source: Pinterest

Being

Ardhra A Menon  I’m only nineteen  But I feel like I’ve lived for a century I don’t know if it’s cause my soul is weary  Too tired to live on, or cause I don’t see any different light,  or cause I have already felt it all –  love, heartbreak, longing, hate, grief,  sadness, misery, happinessContinue

GRIEF TO SIT WITH

Priyamvada Singh When grief hits a home and it quietens every corner, a quiet not so usual, it’s not like a quiet Sunday afternoon when you rest from a tiring week, but rooms that have vulnerable deep silences, a quietness which is empty. It starts raining and when the crickets chirp that’s the sound mostContinue

THE NON-EXISTENT SOUVENIRS

Anushka Pareek As I decided to sit down to arrange my thoughts in an attempt to escape the fifth episode of existential crisis, I might be having that week where I found myself empty. I felt bare of any opinion or reaction towards a coeval event. In other words, I chose not to think aboutContinue

MOON IN SUNLIGHT

Krishnendu Pillai Even though,it was broad daylight, there was darkness all around me. Seems like the sun had its own biasescurbing me from feeling its warmth. Sunlight did not fall to bring joy on my skin anymore. I could see shadows in sunlight. Just when I couldn’t recall how radiancefelt like. He entered and holyContinue