The writer Sandeep Jain writes under the pen name Timeless Poetry. He is a real estate broker to whom words come in an endless flow.
As soon as the Supreme Court verdict was announced in the case of Sabarimala temple, the CPI(M) leadership seemed to take a pro-entry position, hoping that it would serve as a historic moment to unite progressive elements...
While there were reconciliatory voices in the US administration in 1949 on China, they were based on the hope that the Communist rule will be subverted, notes Kevin Peraino in his book ‘A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and...
Legislators may be charged with defecting from a party if they willingly renounce their membership in accordance with the rules of the anti-defection statute. The law doesn't define this phrase, leaving it up to the...
Mir was a driver by profession and would work long hours to feed his family. However, after his death, the family was left to fend for itself. Mir's three daughters and son—all aged between 2 to 10 –had to discontinue...
Melting grassroots/in an extrovert honey/her passionate lips...like the cappadocia balloons- primrose, pastel pink.
Pain is a bedside lamp. It blinks like a jackal’s eyes, from the night bushes.
Even before our memories could fade out the smile of the child who came out of the rubbles after more than 72 hours of struggle in devastated Turkey, several...
So at what point did you realise, that you’re not the family on TV?
Rahi cannot be dismissed outright as he was a literary genius who worked tirelessly to promote the Kashmiri language and shape the identity of Kashmiris. With...
The real issue is ‘acceptance’. In a society like India, where same-sex relationships are looked down upon, forcing acceptance from the government or the...
A seafood festival and home diners are the newer means adopted by the fisherfolk in the Versova Koliwada, a picturesque fishing village in the northern suburbs...
Sitting in his home on the outskirts of Srinagar’s Mochwa area, Ustad Mohammad Yaqub Sheikh has grown up with Sufi Music and has all along remained with the...
So the poem is still incomplete, though I did add some lines later. It is only February; there may be time yet to complete it by July. Meanwhile, if you miss...
Detail by detail the narrator takes us through his daughter’s school going, the tension of entrance interviews and all the things that anxious parents are...
This was the time when the soon-to-be-famous, Rudyard Kipling came to the ‘summer capital’ of India and its glittering social swirl. Well over a century...
Canteen was essentially a humble affair. Cafeteria came into the picture when India was forced by circumstances to believe that control economy had not served...
The library is an essential part of any educational institution. They are the place for the minds to grow but for a person with disability, they can be a...
The history of international relations suggests that a rising power always challenges the hegemon of the day and the status quo. The United States-China...
The recently released book titled ‘Kitne Ghazi Aaye, Kitne Ghazi Gaye’ by the Infantry veteran from the Rajputana Rifles retired Lieutenant General K.J.S....
Shantashree Mohanty writes about a day in her life as a writer. She receives the advice towards the end of the day that it’s better to be a failing writer...
Poet Vibha Batra writes a poem for Outlook on getting it right in life.
The opening line prepares the plot for the entire book. Who was she? Sriveni, who was once, recognized by her beautifully thick black plait, who was a helping...
