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Isha is a 18 year old student of English Honors in Christ University. An aspiring poetess, a blundering writer and a hopelessly old school romantic, Isha, decidedly in love with English, Maddhava and all things classic, is an odd introvert trying to understand and make peace with the world she inhabits and loves.
The night past a slow vigil , observing the Sarayu parting in two forks ,leaving a barren miniature island behind . The bright moonlight of Purnima held her and the river in a soft chilled touch and the wind was heavy in the mysterious forest . But her heart knew no sleep . Closing her […]
A light shines on my window pane, the gift from the morning meadows, a blue wind flies by, the pages of my diary are ruffled revealing forgotten worlds and forgiven words. Words written , lived and forgotten in the haze of time, words of past lives it seemed, words of a distant self, which […]
My petite form hidden masked in my heart’s strengthened blossom, I take prancing steps flying in new love’s freedom, chained by affection’s wings: I claim the sky today: love has made the whole universe mine. Beloved I am and the lover too, the Eternal and the Ephemeral transcend volatile in my frail form trailing […]
On India's 73rd Republic Day, the poem explores the shackles of marriage, as the nation calls for brave women who can take protect & nurture its spirit-soul!
His fragile masculinity met her determined femininity/In the twirl of tresses/He felt the twirl of death/In their wildness was the shakti of Draupadi's femininity/ Ready to throttle and pawn his throne to death.
When I turned twenty, I did not cut a birthday cake like Tiwari's daughter, but sat down to cut the tall grass overgrowing on his field!
Our Afghan sisters lost their freedom and loves into terrible hands. But even in India, are we really free in our familial and marital bonds, abusive schools and insensitive workplaces?
When the marriage itself has no more meaning, when there is abuse and gaslighting in the relationship, what does a nuptial chain matter?
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