Shades of India

Originally posted on Eunoia:
With pride and delight, I sing of my nation, my homeland Clad in multifarious colors, behold the tinge of the sky, and the shade of the sand Faces, you spot both black and white, but they walk hand in hand Underneath all faces, underlies a single color of love, we are…

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Shades of India

With pride and delight, I sing of my nation, my homeland Clad in multifarious colors, behold the tinge of the sky, and the shade of the sand Faces, you spot both black and white, but they walk hand in hand Underneath all faces, underlies a single color of love, we are one, united we stand […]

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“Silent Slaves”

ARE WE REALLY DEVELOPING? Extreme poverty and lack of education and employment make girls more vulnerable to being trafficked from rural areas to big cities in India. In a six-bed women’s ward in New Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital lies a frail 15-year-old girl. Her face and head are bandaged, leaving visible only a bruised blue-black eye and […]

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Tears of a butterfly

​ Last night near the lake, I sat by a butterfly. She flew to a pebble, numb; While a tear fell from her eye. Rested a while and took flight again; Dragged her body around the place, Kept to float without a rhyme, Crammed with eternal pain. Ending the stern glide, took halt by a […]

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“One last time”

It was the last day in college. Emotions were at an all-time high. The moment which we dreaded the most had arrived.The fear of not seeing each other again for a very long time or maybe forever was looming large.It was the time to say a final goodbye to everyone. Selfies, handshakes and high fives […]

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“Falling in love With You”

I ​fell in love with how your smile formed every time you looked at her, how your eyes narrowed a bit and your lips gracefully stretched into that godly smile of yours. I fell in love with the fervor I saw in your eyes, each time you looked at her, without her noticing. I fell in […]

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“Childhood”

​ Edit “I flipped through my childhood photographs, holding the thick album in one hand and a steaming cup of coffee in another. Every photograph brought a myriad different memories and emotions. Nostalgia at its best, on a cloudy Sunday morning. I looked up from the album and gazed out of the glass window. It […]

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“Inside Here”

Few weeks have passed, and I could still hear the thumping beats of that sound. I have no idea where the sound is coming from. But I don’t have any complaint; in fact this soft thumping helps in killing the otherwise dead silence around. I really like it. But, this silent uninterrupted whooshing of fluid […]

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