We called it our aeroplane. The epithet was misplaced. It should have been rocket- equally temperamental and majestic. That was my father’s white ambassador- his first car. It looked massive to my six-year-old self. You could roll down the dark tinted windows, honk its horn, play hide and seek in it and if you were … Continue reading No Appetite For Seconds
Category: Life
Atlas Of A Marriage
Pulkit Singh dedicates this poem to her marriage of ten years.
She Saves Herself In This One…
Why go searching for Knights?
Thirties
The teens and the twenties are the price we pay for the thirties.
Echoes In My Freezer
Those evenings were a proof of a love that I have never known since...
Nostalgia Smells Like…
Nikita Banerjee takes us on a culinary trip as she remembers her grandmothers and the food from her childhood.
Vicarious Vacationist
All she wants is to travel. Why is that so hard?
December
The relentless march of the year ends with this.
What Gives
The only way is forward. Yes?
Snow
The heart wants what it wants.
Silver
An uninspired life. And an empty night. What does one do?
Mishti Dhana- A Short Story
Jigyansa Mohanty writes a beautiful short story about a girl whose father has died recently but who still have to go ahead with her marriage preparations. Will she be able to set aside her grief and fulfill her father's last wish. Read more to find out.
Some Days….
Some days life surprises us with the most beautiful gifts.
The Quiet
There is a shelf. Where her dreams go to die. Wrapped with expensive gift paper. Coated liberally with the colours of psycedelia. Death is nothing, if not beautiful, eh? There is a shelf. Browse along. There is that one peeking from behind the cascading 'string of pearls' the one where captured movement and memories in … Continue reading The Quiet
The Book of Colours
What is your shade of being? Dekohled delves into the hues that make up a personality. What does she find?
Mahatma in Finland
A young man leaves the Indian shores on his maiden foreign trip. What does he learn? A lot it seems. Mahendra Rathod reminisces about that trip he made many years ago.
Ayat
Ghost89er spins a poem in appreciation for that one person who was the constant in his life like the 'ayat'- when all the chaos that the universe could muster was encapsulated in him.
To the City
Pulkit Singh gets a reality check when her daughter calls billboards-the big TVs, the first time she sees them. Can living in small towns set you behind the times?
The Journey Downhill
Dekohled pens down a poem that captures the confusion of our times.
War Paint
The most essential fashion accessory you need is Confidence.
