Yes- They celebrated their day internationally on 8th March, as they do so every year, beaming with pride.
Yes- They’re smiling end to end all the way up, perhaps looking forward to enter the parliamentarian corridors …

The dry leaves on ground scatter to and fro,
“we have places to go,
at the moment our destination even we don’t know”
this all they tell you
when they speak to you…..

The flocks of birds fly together,
“we …

The other day, it was yet again the passive person in “me” sitting back and experiencing the chaos we’re everyday living with in urban India. It isn’t just me, but there are many like me, …

Mrs. Kashyap was one hell of a great cook. Apart from cooking up delicious regular meals, she adorned a special expertise for any kind of cooking that involved frying, steaming, rolling, frosting and almost every …

A place packed with total noise,
There one sees bags of small and big size…..

Completely overboard with chaos n confusion,
On the look of everyone there, you will find a question…..

Time and again they rack …

At the end of the day what matters is….

….that you have maintained a loop of love with everyone,
and that you haven’t hurt the feelings of anyone.

…..that you are happy with your bread and …

When I recently asked this query to one of my friends, she went into a tizzy! She reacted pretty fumingly saying, “Do I look like the types who’d fast?”. “I’d rather eat a four …

Isn’t it such a commonplace terminology these days? Once upon a time, perhaps the term never even existed in the age old journalistic fundamentals, but today, it’s like an Encyclopedia!
What is this Breaking News all …

The brightest of the star sparkles,
The diamond in the necklace sparkles.
Sunlight falls on water,
The water sparkles.

Light falls on the mirror,
The mirror sparkles.

The dew drop on a leaf sparkles,
Sun pierces through the shade …

The other day, I got down from an auto, and the fare was coming something like 26 Rs 50 paise. The driver charged me Rs 27/-. I always carry along an extra Meter Card, knowing …

A captivating, riveting and beautiful read—simply put, it effortlessly makes one fall in love all over again……subtly conveying a message, that true love is extremely crucial, and that one has to learn to value it; …

From onset to sunset,
As the sun went down
And as it again showed up
As the whole world slept
And again woke up
Just for you I waited…

The moon went through its phases
The tides changed their faces
There was …

A close friend recently decked up her house affectionately. There were decorative pieces of furniture and furnishings which were done up in the process. With an overabundant number of furniture showrooms having come up in …

Swipe through TV channels, turn the newspapers, shuffle some journals, and this is what is preached all over. That Earth is getting warmer, that emission norms aren’t up to the standards, that pollution levels are …

Once there hailed a drop among hazy grey skies
Somehow its anxiety had just begun to rise

Though it knew that it would soon fall
One thought grappled it-
How far will I contribute
Big or small?

Then …

Heart had begun to melt
Before the first snow had even embraced land
Let alone what will happen to the heart
When snow is actually set to melt……

Heart is basking in the radiance
Of a mild cool season; …

One of the peculiar habits which I truly take pleasure in, though feeling a bit childlike about it, is when I buy a new diary or a notebook and smell the fresh pages of it. …

I’m colorful; I’m tall
It’s the skies I kiss
I make you all bliss…
Yes I’m a kite
Wanting to reach sunlight…

On the foam of sky
Your name I can write
Yes, I’m your kite…

As winds drift me …

It had been barely a month since Raghu was learning to be cell phone friendly. His elder sister Priya who lived in city had gifted him a sleek brand new cell phone, along with a …

Perhaps someday universe will end
Perhaps someday they’ll stop to pretend

Someday perhaps fishes will survive sans water
Perhaps someday all ills will be cured by laughter

Perhaps someday blind will begin to see
Innocent souls will someday …