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  Debanjali Dey   There was a brown crow Silhouetted on the branch that kissed his window sill A solitary figure against the harsh cityscape, Like the backroom of a bad dream, A quiet spectator to the odd humdrum On the twentieth hour of Every obscure day of the week; The man of three and […]

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Saraswat Chatterjee On a chilly winter morning, the scenery was bliss, White, fluffy and tiny, the snowflakes poured on and on, It’s funny, I thought, how small things can bring such joy, And when I looked across, the snow had covered the lawn. Then I thought about you, those little moments we have shared, A […]

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Sohini Sarker From my bed on a summer night, I saw a bright, lonely star It stood still between two trees. The night birds called from far. I came close to the window. The night wind came onto my face The trees swayed to the breeze, As if ready to go to another place. But […]

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mehuli das 17:21 how to disappear completely by radiohead is playing on the stereo. it’s raining outside, even though it’s only march. maa’s smoking a cigarette in the balcony. i am sad today; it’s not the depression, no. just sad. ‘an aching melancholy at the pit of my stomach’ sad. ‘she looks so lonely smoking […]

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Shubhankar Sharma   On my desk to write a poem my pen is about to move. Pondering over life and its obstacles I try to get into the groove. I stare blankly (trying to be artistic) at the magical night sky Like a paralysed ostrich, my creative genius miserably fails to fly. As I doodle […]

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mehuli das at fourteen, haroun and hera; seasonal lovers lay on a roof and watched sunsets turn into moonlight, over chopin’s nocturne op.9 no.2 in e-flat minor, and recited wordsworth’s ballads about love into the starry night. a fortnight later: a shoe-box filled with used bus tickets, hands held and swung; one whole, two halves, […]

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Author: Debanjali   In this entire lockdown episode, while we are dealing with our own lockdown issues, I am trying to seek positives in the current situation. I am sure you all must have noticed some changes in and around you. I noticed a nearly dead adenium which I was planning to uproot, sprout a […]

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