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- Jul 26, 2021
Re-dying in 4 steps (when the depression relapses)
/Assume all trigger Warnings before you start reading this piece of writing/ i) suddenly the sad in my sadness seems so thirsty as if it...
- Jul 26, 2021
Baba always said he wanted a son because—”Sons lit the pyres”
Baba had stopped talking to me when I was in class six. I wanted to learn Kathak. He wanted me to study law. There are only a few...
- Jul 26, 2021
We are a generation of displaced anger and 140 characters.
my grandmother tells me in their times when ‘Mahabharata’ was telecasted every Sunday morning neighbours crowded in our house from...
- Jul 26, 2021
दीदी! यहाँ क्यों छूता है चाचा
मेज पर कोहनी टिकाये अन्धेरे में बैठी हूँ देख रही हूँ आ-आ कर जाती हुई कविताओं को उनके पदचिह्न वहीं पड़े हैं जस के तस मानों मेरे द्वार के...
- Jul 26, 2021
My mother is one-fourth the woman she could be three-fourths the woman she had to be
my mother is decreasing she tiptoes barefoot about the house to not make a murmur of her existence my mother is contracting she nibbles...
- Jul 25, 2021
We believe and believe and then believe some more till our faith becomes a series of arithmetic prog
When I say I want Oxford dictionary to replace the word childhood with falsehood I’m 90% joking but also 10% dead-serious. It’s 2009, Ma...
- Jul 25, 2021
The universe needs me to be a bad daughter on a few days
My relationship with my father is not what you’d call strained. It’s probably a Kesari chai mishap that soiled a small portion of our...
- Jul 23, 2021
Never fall in love with a writer
Never fall in love with a writer because their love comes with a messy disclaimer, their love is only theirs, never yours, (even after...
- Jul 21, 2021
A love letter written by my right hand for my left
somewhere, a little girl appearing for her math exam smashes our faces, and believes she will score the highest; a man temporarily glues...
- Jul 21, 2021
I hope your next lover looks more like disaster-management lessons and mine, less like a catastrophe
you implant subtle disasters in the vacant pores of my skin every time your brown-sugar hands touch my desert-sand body. the first time...
- Jul 21, 2021
My therapist tells me to practice spelling out S-T-O-P I-T everyday, the words that I should have y
(Assume All Trigger Warnings) Summer afternoons have always been too salty, A kind that squeezes up your throat in a way, that it even...
- Jul 21, 2021
Self belief is a rollercoaster ride and i was born with motion sickness
all the keepnotes that couldn’t turn into poems // i. i miss sleeping next to the sienna-eyed boy i love. look at me – a poetic monster –...
- Jul 21, 2021
अंशिका शुक्ला की कविता – जीवंतता
पिता के जाने के बाद जैसे – तैसे संभाल लिया था मैंने खुद को माँ को भी संभाल ही लेती जानती हूँ “जीवन बस एक भ्रम है मृत्य ही अंतिम सत्य”! पर...
- Jul 21, 2021
अनुराग अनंत की कविता – सलीका
पहाड़ चढ़ने का भी सलीक़ा है और उतरने का भी किसी को भुलाते हुए यदि सावधानी न बरती जाए तो भुलाना याद करना बन जाता है जीवन को अगर सलीक़े से न...
- Jul 20, 2021
वैभव मिश्रा की कविता – अधिकारलिप्सु
आँखों ने जगह खाली देखी देखते ही मन ने कहा “भरे जाने योग्य “ और तपाक से बैठ गए जाकर हम । रेल की खाली सीट से लेकर खिड़की के खाली हिस्से तक...
- Jul 19, 2021
At 15, you realize you live in a country where kissing another boy is illegal and you realise you we
My amma did not raise me to be a poet, nor a feminist She asks, why are you a feminist? Amma, when you’re raised in a household run by...
- Jul 16, 2021
The aftermath of an Indian suicide
suicides travel accompanied by history, anthropology economics, politics, literature of all sorts and obviously, the cinema! and what...
- Jul 10, 2021
Art is the only thing death can’t touch
Art is a manifestation of grief, It is a rising sun, A clear sky after days of downpour It is a brooding mother, Photographs of times...
- Jul 7, 2021
Handpicked Hindi Poems from June 2021
एक बार पलटना तो चाहता हूँ – अभिजीत सिंह पीछे देखने के संदर्भ में • एक बार पलटना तो चाहता हूँ कि सूरज जब गिरे मेरी ही तरह वर्तमान से...
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