October Photo a Day Challenge, Day 5, Birds by City Sonnet These flamingos visit my city Nerul in Mumbai, India every year during April-June. They get along well with all the other species of birds found in the Nerul wetlands. Unlike humans, they don’t mind sharing their territory […]
“My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.’ 2020 October marks 100 years since the publication of Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles – the book that introduced Hercule Poirot to the world. Mystery is my favourite genre […]
I bought these fairy lights some time ago. These lights are so enchanting. Reminds me of full moon night A dark sky littered with stars. A vast meadow filled with foxgloves and daisies. Toad stools glimmering in the moonlight Fairies playing harp and riding dragonflies. Wearing rose bud […]
Today is World Teachers’ Day and I wish to share this report by my son A. L Ashkenaz on the struggles by teachers of India while they continue to teach online. It has been five months of digital instructions and teachers are fighting a battle of survival with […]
Sometimes I wonder why does life have to give us lemons? Why can’t it be melons or apples any other fruits? Life doesn’t always hand over the lemons to you . Sometimes those extremely sour and bitter lemons are hurled at you and sometimes they are given […]
No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for ‘Before Coffee.’- Cherise Sinclair Is there anything more luxurious on earth than coffee, sofa and a book? Coffee is more than a beverage. It is morning’s warm embrace of love. It is nostalgia. It is friends and gossip and […]
I got the below picture for a poetry challenge and I found my ideas completely dried out. My first thoughts were on masked emotions by mothers’ hidden from their children and also maybe mother’s devotion. Then I thought of a narrative from the child’s point of view . […]
Prompt for Week #57 (Sep 26, 2020 – Oct 2, 2020) Need This was an easy one. Thank you Shweta Suresh 1. I need maintenance, not high though. 2. No need for explanations, my dear. 3. Plants need affection not just water. 4. This room needs a woman’s […]
Hey Uterus, This is not fair The way you hitch yourself to my emotions. I am not being ungrateful, you know. But you become the portal to my emotional centre. We should feel powerful, you and me Being the vessel that contains “Shakti”, Instead you send me to […]
I just finished reading the latest edition of Just Mercy. Even though the underlying thought which Stevenson wishes to disseminate in his book is the potential of hope and mercy in redeeming racial injustice, I am left with shock, indignation, resentment and disgust by the very reminder that […]
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