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Month: December 2020

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Festival of Light Returns

O Diwali, the Festival of LightsWe welcome you here yet againAuspicious five-day celebrationIs every devout Hindu’s aspiration You offer a season of merry-makingWith the fireworks and sparklersRegalia, sweets and splendid giftsStrings of LED lights and traditional diyas Festivities offer till you are aroundMind-boggling days of celebrationMoments of pure joy and togethernessWith friends, relatives and loved […]
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Female Feticide

Editor’s Choice What could be more brutalThan liquidating beforeA life has opportunityTo be born? Prevailing social evils…Female infanticide was so commonNow feticide is a major menaceMisuse of medical advancementsFor prenatal sex determinationContinue to remain main causeFor abortion of female fetusesIn urban and rural masses. What adds insult to injury!The ironical social ethos…Daughters are seen to […]
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Fashion

‘Look, I am trendy in fashion’‘I simply go for what is current –Love fur-coats and fur-accessories’‘My mom has a fetish forFancy leather shoes and belts’‘My cousin is crazyAbout leather purses and handbags’‘You look handsome and great in jacket,Is this genuine leather stuff?’‘This suede leather shawlMy uncle gifted me on last birthday.’ These are a few […]
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Colours of Life

Colours vanished after you like whispers in the windLeaving behind only monochrome’s time-worn rindPink and blue’s marvel fancy turned misty and murkyLife’s canvas became grayscale, weary and dreary. Ever Since on each Holi eve, I wish colours’ jolly playFor you, rainbow’s dazzling in a vibrant cosmic arrayMay you shine forever in colours, a masterpiece divineThen, […]
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Rajnigandha Revisited

Rajnigandha, night’s sultry whispererUnfolding like an endless esoteric prayerA green stalk, greenish buds and white petalsTo love’s velvety addiction, its fragrance unfurls. For many, it’s a bloom in night’s dark masqueradeBut for him, an egress to memories’ moonlit shadeA symbol of emotions wrapped tight in ivory petalsEchoes of love’s whispers in night’s euphoric surge. In […]
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Atoning Forever

Memories haunt him, like autumn’s stealthy creepWhispers in the nights of what way back did seepAlone in a shipwreck, he on nostalgia’s tidal waveShadows drowning in the blues like a lonely grave. Many faded photographs, letters like fallen leavesEchoes of bygone days, rustling what he believesHe keeps brooding in twilight, shadows intertwineDrowned in nostalgic labyrinth, […]
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Colours of Life

Colours vanished after you like whispers in the windLeaving behind only monochrome’s time-worn rindPink and blue’s marvel fancy turned misty and murkyLife’s canvas became grayscale, weary and dreary. Ever Since on each Holi eve, I wish colours’ jolly playFor you, rainbow’s dazzling in a vibrant cosmic arrayMay you shine forever in colours, a masterpiece divineThen, […]
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Rajnigandha Revisited

Rajnigandha, night’s sultry whispererUnfolding like an endless esoteric prayerA green stalk, greenish buds and white petalsTo love’s velvety addiction, its fragrance unfurls. For many, it’s a bloom in night’s dark masqueradeBut for him, an egress to memories’ moonlit shadeA symbol of emotions wrapped tight in ivory petalsEchoes of love’s whispers in night’s euphoric surge. In […]
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Atoning Forever

Memories haunt him, like autumn’s stealthy creepWhispers in the nights of what way back did seepAlone in a shipwreck, he on nostalgia’s tidal waveShadows drowning in the blues like a lonely grave. Many faded photographs, letters like fallen leavesEchoes of bygone days, rustling what he believesHe keeps brooding in twilight, shadows intertwineDrowned in nostalgic labyrinth, […]
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