Faiz Forever / Kanika Aurora
Gulon mein rang bhare Baad-e-naubahaar chale Chale bhi aao ki Gulshan ka karobaar chale Come bahaar or spring and we all end up quoting Faiz Ahmed Faiz conjuring up evocative and tantalizing images of...
Category: Prose
NULL & VOID| OJASWINI TRIVEDI
You’re lost in a fantasy
A dream maybe
Where I cease to exist.
You seem peaceful,
I seem greedy.
SLING SHOT: Let’s say we loved each other! Ojaswini Trivedi
“Let’s believe
the two birds
lived in a
seamless crave for freedom,
where the abyss
melted into the horizon”
A Battle of Life That I Will Win| Bansi Kaul
I have been unwell and have been detected with cancer of the brain as well as the lungs. Yet I am sure I will pull through and that we will soon meet again. Your good wishes are my strength – Bansi Kaul
Aradhana’s Pacific Adventures with Crustaceans
Her name is Aradhana and she is a prospective 7th grader at the International School of Panama. Her most prevalent learned behavior during these initial months of Covid-19 has been “Science Curiosity”, be it in Physics, Chemistry, Biology or Zoology. We were pleasantly surprised when she was recognized as ISP’s “Most Independent Thinking Student in Grade 6”.
The stranger across my mirror- Have we met? | Ojaswini Trivedi
The continuous falling back into the comfort, the familiar sensation, the treaded path we walked for weeks together. We feel the urgency to crawl back into that. Our memory cells aching to sprint through those lanes, actions and people. Again.
Erebus and I / Ojaswini Trivedi
Who saves us? What protects us? Or are we just living our lives with the illusion of being protected. Of being saved. Hurt is the chalice of nothingness, writhing through the voiceless screams. The...
Celebrating 150 years of the Mahatma | Manohar Khushalani
Gandhi Ki Dilli at IIC, featured plays films and the festival was also replete with discussions on topics and ideas ranging from Sustainable Living, Sparrows to Gandhi’s favourite Bhajans and
even his nutritional philosophy expressed through a lunch curated by Pushpesh Pant, with unfamiliar cuisine, like Bajre ki Khichri, Methi ke Theple and many such minimalistic gourmet items
“Phansi se pehle Corona ki antim ichha” by Sudhir Mangar
A writer and thinker, Sudhir Mangar, makes a very perceptive, video, on lessons to be learnt from the current Pandemic. A thought on many things in our lifestyle which we are viewing due to...
Shabd Leela – The Interplay of Words / Manohar Khushalani
Text of The Review by Manohar Khushalani Published in IIC Diary Directed by K K Raina, conceived, scripted and narrated in Hindi by Ila Arun, ‘Shabd Leela’ is a partially dramatized reading of the...
