Poem Black & White Editor’s Choice When cheerful folks exclaim ‘Holi Hai!’It triggers out an upsurge of emotionsA rainbow splash of fascinating coloursSwinging, vacillating and dancing folksBody drenched in wet and dry coloursExchanging & sharing sweets and giftsWittingly cracking laughter and smilesIn an ambience of fun & frolic for hours… Also, the very surroundings have souls –Cool, composed like […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh March 25, 2024March 26, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article The Punjab Farmers Resort to Ill-Timed Agitation The Punjab farmers are upto it yet again raising doubts and questions in the psyche of many sound and logical thinking men of this nation about the timing and true intention of agitating farmers. On the last occasion, when the federal government enacted laws for introducing the long awaited crucial reforms in the agriculture and […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh March 16, 2024March 17, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem Flame After the fall of duskAs it’s dark everywhereWith stars twinkling in skyPale moon chuckling at meIn the deepening still of nightMy body start achingWith the desires burningHands eager to hold you tightTo feel the flames of your curves. As if rhyme & rhythm of timeSo also my breath & pulse stopsIn the still and chill […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh March 14, 2024March 14, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem Touchstone Editor’s Choice What is great and extraordinaryIn loving and romancing, someoneOnly to break up after a whileFor whatever mundane reasons…? But following this moving apartIf one still eternally continuesTo yearn and love the personThat is the real test and criterionSay a touchstone, what is love! Alas! This is one stark reality He ruminates now in solitudeWhich […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh March 12, 2024October 15, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem Key to Happiness He, a longtime friend and confidanteOnly recently candidly confided in meThat he with no other liabilities now leftYet ample cash & resources at disposalOnly desire or object he nurtures in lifeIs to seek pleasure and happiness in life. I parried him: If only money and the mobilized resourcesAnd thus achieved such worldly pleasuresWere indeed a […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh February 27, 2024February 28, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem Destined When I look back in retrospectThe only constant thought arisesYou were my first loss of life, thatTurned out to be painful last too! The only viable rationale I surmiseThat in all probability, may be trueFollowing your luckless departureI never aspired anything more in life. So, for this reason whatever cameI accepted it as destined gracefullyRather […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh February 25, 2024February 25, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article Ram Mandir Consecration: A Cultural Heritage Restored Recently, the ancient city of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, Bharat was once again in news globally for the Pran Pratishtha of the most popular deity (Sri Ram) in the Garbhagrih (Sanctum Sanctorum) and opening of the newly constructed magnificent Ram Mandir (Temple) for the darshan by the devotees. According to the traditional cultural and religious […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh February 24, 2024February 24, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem रात से रोमांस अपने से जो लोग है वो तो करते नहीं कभी कोई बात मुलाकात।दिन में कोई देख न ले, रात आती है लोगों को सुलाने के बाद।। धीरे धीरे चुपके चुपके आती है पास, तन्हा अकेले में रात।चांद रखता है पहरा उसके, आती है उसके ढलने उपरान्त।। राज दुलारी है पर दासियों को भी, लाती न […] Written by Surata Ram February 22, 2024February 22, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Poem The Republic Chorale Recalling on auspicious Republic Day, the 26th January 2024,How the shackles of foreign rule, our countless heroes tore.The brunt of unfathomable torture and humiliation they bore!We bow in reverence to the martyrs and earnestly we adore. But for their sacrifices, we wouldn’t have this gaiety and galoreEnjoying our freedom with a ceiling over us and […] Written by Surata Ram February 12, 2024February 12, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article Winter Dahlia From Author’s Garden Friends and acquaintances are also aware about this author’s love and fascination for flowers, and more particularly the Dahlia flowers. While in the government service for the long years, he had ample opportunity and ideal conditions to grow a variety of Dahlia flowering plants along with other flowers year after year in his very often […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh February 9, 2024March 24, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
झील कीचड़ की कैद में थी झील की सोई हुई दृष्टि,अब नीलम-दर्पण बनकर जल ने पाई नव सृष्टि।कुमुदिनियों की अरुण हँसी बिखरी है लहरों पर,मानो उषा ने लिख दी हो कविता जल के अंतर। जहाँ जकड़े थे स्वप्न कभी दलदल की बेड़ियों में,वहीं आज जीवन गाता है हरीतिम छेड़ियों में।धुंधलाते क्षितिज से मुक्त हुआ अब यह […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 5, 2026June 5, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Friends That We Were We were friends, separated and built own spheresBeneath the steady laws of the rolling yearsNew identities were anchored to obligate spheresBound by diverse fortunes, duties and highways. The world commands a script for what we areAnd a strict decorum for our unmapped fireBy counting the distance, questioning our lineTo freeze our spirit rendering lesser sanguine. […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 5, 2026June 5, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Lake Muddy banks in the lake once hid viewNowadays the waters wake in mirror-blueA blush of lily petals; pink, wild and brightNow bathes within the golden day light. No longer choked by only mud and weedThe lilies breathe here from shadows freedFar beyond, no more the mist-veiled crestsNow, there a lush green vegetation rests. 889 total […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 4, 2026June 4, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A timeless Echo Editor’s Pick We never weren’t the friends we wereTime brought a rough change in the weatherThus seized in the tempest’s blinding galeI allowed my inner conscience guide my sail. Something that happened was indeed a phaseA saga in itself and a long-lasting eclipseBut it evaporates now, with so many changesAs the heart doesn’t care about […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 4, 2026June 5, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Silver Lyre of Gondwana An age-old songsmith from Gondwana’s dawnThrough moist Australian forests stepping onMidst luxuriant ferns and moss, rich clay floorsA Lyrebird weaves the melody that life restores. A silver lyre of feathers proudly crowns its graceWith lacy plumes and fine antennae in spaceThe finest artist of the rich fauna in the forestA hundred wild voices live within […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 3, 2026June 3, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
झील कीचड़ की कैद में थी झील की सोई हुई दृष्टि,अब नीलम-दर्पण बनकर जल ने पाई नव सृष्टि।कुमुदिनियों की अरुण हँसी बिखरी है लहरों पर,मानो उषा ने लिख दी हो कविता जल के अंतर। जहाँ जकड़े थे स्वप्न कभी दलदल की बेड़ियों में,वहीं आज जीवन गाता है हरीतिम छेड़ियों में।धुंधलाते क्षितिज से मुक्त हुआ अब यह […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 5, 2026June 5, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Friends That We Were We were friends, separated and built own spheresBeneath the steady laws of the rolling yearsNew identities were anchored to obligate spheresBound by diverse fortunes, duties and highways. The world commands a script for what we areAnd a strict decorum for our unmapped fireBy counting the distance, questioning our lineTo freeze our spirit rendering lesser sanguine. […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 5, 2026June 5, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Lake Muddy banks in the lake once hid viewNowadays the waters wake in mirror-blueA blush of lily petals; pink, wild and brightNow bathes within the golden day light. No longer choked by only mud and weedThe lilies breathe here from shadows freedFar beyond, no more the mist-veiled crestsNow, there a lush green vegetation rests. 889 total […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 4, 2026June 4, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Hindu, Hinduism and Hindustan: Part LXXV Pilgrimage-I Nearly all communities and religions in the world attach significance to places which have some connection with any worldly or supernatural act(s) or event(s) of the divine (God) or His messenger(s); the birth, enlightenment or death of founder and saints; sites of the spiritual calling or awakening; supposedly a dwelling or living place of […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh October 31, 2022November 17, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Gulmohar Again In a life dull and forlornOwing to devastation and fearCaused by the alien coronavirusAs I venture out after weeksFrom my humble yet safe homeIn this rather isolated yet sheltered lane… Oh! It’s the month of May againThe time for Gulmohar to go greenAnd blooming full swing againIn the lane flanked by umpteenGulmohars forming a canopy […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh May 11, 2021November 8, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Whose God is This Anyway? God (Brahman) is the highest... Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh February 24, 2021March 11, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ज्यों-ज्यों बूड़ो श्याम रंग बसन्त विहार कालोनी की परंपरानुसार... Written by Gita Singh February 22, 2021September 21, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked