Can there be home within a home? Can our vanity be too big to hold all the love we get? Can solitude taste like the numb strumming of a guitar? How many years must it take for the light to pass through a shadow?
With so much hate being spewed on social media and public platforms, the language of Urdu feels like a soothing balm
Artist Sudarshan Shetty talks about his immersive art installation called Age of Love and how mortality is a necessary condition for regeneration.
Sudarshan Shetty’s immersive art installation Age of Love throws up various theories and queries about love
I must thank Sheikh for his generosity. I ran into him at Bombay Central two years ago when I was in Mumbai for my mother’s last rites. He drove me to his...
As Ma laid her healing hand on her back, Anisha felt like she had magically inserted some fallen, missing piece of a little bone back into her column of...
He had thought of her as she was, as her name spoke of: a single star. And now the star had burnt out, consumed by the vastness of the galaxy.
In her writings and her life, the first prominent female Punjabi poet of the twentieth century leaves behind a legacy for women writers in India which urges...
A narrative of loss: of innocence, and freshness in love. When the dust settles on a relationship, the heart learns to let go. But we still hold on to the old...
After their passionate first kiss, they never get to meet again. Under the fading moonlight, when cold breeze blows over the hills, he secretly remembers her
What are we supposed to do when war breaks out? Some people come out and protest. Some become numb. And some write poems in the hope that someday flowers will...
The poems in Sayan Aich Bhowmik’s collection, ‘I Will Come With A Lighthouse,’ reflect on the crisis of the soul and acknowledge the translated nature of...
You can’t explain love to a plant or philosophy to a dog. We feel only what we understand. And he felt love for me. He wanted me to understand that.
A young woman writer navigates through personal and professional spaces, recording moments that shape us.
For a year, Reema carried on her unspoken love affair with Rashid: Texting him, meeting him at restaurants, losing herself in his warm embrace at hotels.
When my father invited the tall, fat man to stay for the night before he took a friend from the farm, I sat by Cola’s side that whole night.
What sound do you hear when your loved ones leave? What if the sluggish earthworm burrowing the earth get cemented?
‘You think ill of me but I would think well of you and your family and friends and you would ultimately realise that in this tug of war between terror and...
Actress-singer Shibani Dandekar had tattooed actor-director Farhan Akhtar’s name on her neck before, but post their wedding, she got her wedding date...
The protagonist of my first novel is bisexual, but not ashamed of being one. She is neither defined nor restricted by her sexuality. In crafting her, I have...
Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt has come a long way from ‘Student Of The Year’ to her latest movie ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’. She will complete 10 years in...
'When I left the Valley for the plains, the search for love left me with a broken heart. On the last assignment at my old workplace, however, I found true love'
Reality show 'Big Boss' contestant reveals his marriage plans with girlfriend Payal Shetty
The darkness and depth of the night were soothing the souls with its spell-binding silence. The pale crescent moon shone like a silvery claw in the night sky.
Our shadow has flatfoot and it rolls down/to the estuary of obscure.