Category: Art and Culture

There was shining sea on my side, crystalled by the gems from the sky, sun played with it’s rays all around, and, it made a fairy sight.   As I sat on the shore, tired with life’s chores. Out and in, thoughts ran my mind seeking some place to be calm.   Childhood memories flashed… Continue reading Memories Visiting – Sudipta Chakravarti

‘Tis a tale of yore, oft told to willing ears Across starlit seas and sands, o’er the years Fury, begot in a scorned heart, darkens its sight And accrues to revenge, in the quiet of the night Yet I once did yield, vernal in time’s palm While wrath smiled, brimming within, in cruel calm Deceiving… Continue reading To speak of revenge – Aarif Khan

I was lost there Flying among the stars I catched a butterfly in And it took me into a strange land I flied with it over the palm trees I sat on the flowers Swaying along with the honey bees The butterfly made me like it And we flied together some time long Again I… Continue reading Wonderland – Ojaswini Srivastava

Long, long ago, when I went to work at St. Agnes College in Mangalore, my father had just retired from government service, and settled down in our ancestral home, then known as the “Big House”  in Kotecheri, Kanhangad, South Kanara District, now a part of Kerala State. Kerala and the Malabar Coast lying on the… Continue reading Monsoon Story: A Short Trip To The Big House On A Rainy Day

Awake my eyes, as the darkness unfolds, Visions of euphoria come to a close, Yawn at the Dawn, I put on my Clothes. Goodbye to my devastated father I say, Munch on stale bread like I do everyday, Out of the tenements, I go onto the way. The soot, parching the throat at its best,… Continue reading My Mined – A Poem