The first time I saw you
You made a place in my heart
I don’t know why I melted
and let it all start..
A voice from deep within me
which I had learned to trust
Told me there was something behind …

When was the last time you cancelled an appointment to take your child to the ice-cream parlour after a bad day at school? How long have you lived with an unseen burden on your back, …

She stands at the precipice
of a lonely, weathered cliff
Alone she is always, tested and tried,
now is the time to let the feelings speak
To think unbridled, to decide..
Beauty unfettered, beauty unleashed
She is the face of power.
A …

30th August, 2006. My sixteenth birthday, the best and most memorable one of all!!
I got up in the morning, stretched out comfortably and smiled at the dappled sunlight filtering into my room through the …

When I was a kid I was always intrigued by fairy tales. They fascinated me like nothing else had. Among the innumerable tales my mother was pestered into telling me, the story of Rapunzel …

Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.
Each one of us comes into the world, wrinkled, bawling and tiny but most importantly, born free. Freedom is as naturally given to us as …

The year has made its time,
Life passing on in a blur of colour
With rhythmic beat to the tune of the world,
Don’t miss the music lilting,
It is a new beginning.

Broken hearts and dried tears
Are a part …

Often, we hear people telling us how important it is to be content with whatever you have in life. After all there is always someone who doesn’t have the kind of education being given to …

Closing my eyes and feeling the wind play with my hair,
Hands stretched out to touch the sky,
Today I feel like I can wish for everything
and on opening my eyes it will be mine.
I wish for …

They say that the best days of our life are the ones you spend in school. Timidly sharing secrets, giving each other a hand, learning to laugh at ourselves we don’t realise when we …

You embrace me with smiles
comforting, caressing with soft words
The darkness is nothing to me, I can fight
if you stand by my side, hold my hand and be my guide
Pain in my heart, pain in my …

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
and I chose the one less travelled by
and that has made all the difference…
Most of the time, we hurry through our life, treating it as a chore. We …

Nihaal was a ten year old girl who loved gifts. The small, carefully wrapped ones tied with colourful little ribbons and the large sumptuously decorated ones with glossy, expensive wrapping paper, boasting of surprises. Little …

In the darkness of night,
the black night enveloping me on all sides,
the rim of a bright moon
peeking out slowly in the sky
I close my eyes and let them see
wonders of all the worlds
infinite joy, beauty, …

In one word the book can only be described as phenomenal! Arundhati Roy takes us on such an amazing journey of Kerala, the land of beauty, communism and age old prejudices that we are one with …

On the morning of  November 28th 2009, 2.16 lakh students all over India waited in eager anticipation of the CAT (common admission test) held by the premier Indian Institutes of managements for admission to the most …

The cool night air was pleasant on my face as I rolled down the window of my car. Craning my neck, I could make out a faint hint of red of the traffic signal that …

Friendship is one of those things, that no one can understand
A silent unspoken word, the warm touch of a hand
I thought I’d had it then when I found you near me
Maybe it wasn’t meant to …

A question that we cannot answer completely no matter how articulate we are.
Answer the following with a yes or no and find out for yourself whether you have ever grasped the essence of love.
Does your …

O wanderer go away!
To love you have given an answer so frail,
yet you seek what was never yours
yet you speak, of pearls and flowers
The glittering sliver of light
that you look upon with awestruck eyes
and stretch …