लता को क्या गाऊँ, क्या लिखूँ ?
लता को क्या गाऊँ, क्या लिखूँ ? माँ नहीं थीं वो. न दीदी, ना ताई…ना कोई देवी ! बस लता. कैसे बाँध दूँ बहती स्वरधारा को इन छोटे-छोटे रिश्तों में…
अलविदा वीरांगना ..!
अलविदा वीरांगना ! नाम : Bambi Mishraजन्म : 10 मार्च, 2011महाप्रयाण: 26 अक्टूबर, 2021उम्र : …
New Year: The Commotion of Celebration
What’s NEW about a new year? Isn’t it merely a completion of the earth’s gyration in its orbital? How is the 1st of January different from the day before or…
Divine Justice: A Retrospect of life’s Quandaries
‘Do you believe in ‘Divine Justice’?”, suddenly my younger daughter asked that day. “Why are you asking this question? You know, I don’t believe in anything illogical ! There is…
Arising from the Dust : #AFTD, 32 Stories of Grit and Grandeur
Arising from the Dust She woke up from the cindersWith laden wings alongFlecked with ashes of the yoreLissome, yet so strong! Her wings weren’t mere feathersBut, limbs of ores alloyedAh!…
Happy Birthday to My Glimmer, Anindhya…
Happy Birthday My Moonbeam, Anindhya ! What should I gift you today…?…except my words as demure, love as pure and blessings as powerful as you?So, here goes the last birthday…
Depression is real: The Untold Story of Sushant Singh Rajput
Mental health is extremely underrated in our society. Unlike those severe physical diseases that take a toll on human life, you cannot see noticeable symptoms in the case of depression.…
The Sculptress
The Sculptress It was a hot and humid July afternoon. The sky was hailing embers down on earth. The sun, in his backster’ mood wanted us, the puny mortals for…
Haiku On Haiku
“Can you haiku?”, Yes, you can. If you have an effusive heart which feels others’ pain, beholds the beauty around and discern the Almighty within, you can haiku. Whatever is…
Black-hole and You: Haiku
Poems turned in prose I lost my gleaming aura Sunken in black-hole ! Even if it hits you, you feel no pain.Rather you flow with its rhythm…And the world thinks…
The Sun Never Faded, but Glistened Through the Moon: My Father…
Dad’s lil’ girl forgot her smile and lost her eyes twinkle,Her lustrous locks cloistered, her lucent visage wrinkled,The hapless soul missed ever her knight-in-shining-armour,Her melodies were lost amidst cacophony and…
Bruised: Haiku, Senryu
Trespasser west wind, Drifted all my pollen grains I am blued and bruised ! He plunged into her heart and plundered her choicest possession, her emotions…. The arid west wind…
Music Draped Me, Yet I Was Revealed In Its Folds…
…and I sang a song after years, co’z #Life told me to embrace music…again… And I sang again. I did what I was born for, named for and lived for.…
Come back Santa Claus…
He met with me in June, became my destiny in November and left me in December…forever… Ours was a fleeting love-affair but it’s perennial. My love for him is boundless,…
Dark Diwali
Mitranya cried last night. She was getting ready for her wedding. She wept profusely for the seventh time and the dark sky celebrated her wedding night with extra sparkles scattered…
Tum Na Jane Kis Jahan Mein Kho Gaye…
When the whole world celebrates Diwali, a daughter celebrates her Dad’s birthday and mourns her amour at the same time… He was the music of my life. Like him, music…
Alice and Thumblina on a Blind Date: #TheBlindList
Alice was a menace! She was not that bored and drowsy girl as Lewis Carroll proclaimed her to be, but was an errant grade-schooler with mischief in her moves…
The Hermit Crab and a Cancer Heart…
Her heart was made of resin, ’twas clear, fashioned easily… She revived and restored it after every hurt and aversion, but it retained those imprints… ….forever… It pretended to be…
The Red Cardinal: Five Sentence Fiction
There were many chirping birds around the fowler… He forgot the nightingale cooing in his den, ensnared…of her own free will… The hunter never cared until she stopped singing…
Total Eclipse Of The Heart: A Page From My Dairy
I narrowed my eyes and looked into the quaint sky to find the crestfallen blood Moon. But, Alas! I couldn’t see any celestial being there, neither the eclipse-d moon, nor…