This is my heart lately
By RK Lakhi Kant
A flurry of small buildings
Without much architectural works
Much like the distant villages
Where most of India lives
Ladies and gentlemen
Now you are inside
And...
Attestation – Poem – Ananya S Guha – Assam Molestation
She walked out. She walked out.
From the bar they Yelled.
She has been drinking.
Did you have any inkling?
She is an inviolate oxymoron, the cuss,
the paradox...
Dear Life!
Dear Life !
(By: Deepa Khomdram)
Dear life was lost
The city was in chaos
Harmony was eradicated
Hue and cries annihilated
Many an invocation sent
Many a proposition sent
Mothers and...
Spring
Spring
A poem by Bijayata Akham
They say,
Once the gale blew ,
The fragrance of the flowers
Pervading ,
When the king arrived .
Blandly He was
visiting homes and hovels
to...
Switching hands
By RK Lakhi Kant
Driven ahead, driven to a risky end
by the mind of the new Indian
knows this but entangled
in its own gait
money and comfort...
Inquiete Peace
(Under the Twinkling Stars)
Dark is the night,
Save for the one day –
– less, Full moon
And the Twinkling Stars,
Talking amongst themselves,
Like the bunch of ‘chongas’,
In...
Diwali Prayer
HA EMA, ECHA SE HOUGAT-LE
KHOURANG-BANA KAP-LAK-LE
KARAM-NA TOUGANI
... KADOMDA CHAT-KANI
CHARAMSU METPI-RE
CHARA-SU THATPI-RE
HA NONGDAMBA
HA MITAMBA
EIGI KARI ERALL-NO
NANG-NA KARI KHAN-BANO
EIGI CHARAM METPA-DO
NANG-GI KARI PEN-BANO
CHARAM-SE METKANU
LAMBISE THING-GANU
NGASI-GI CHARA...
In the arms of little sister
By RK Lakhi Kant
The little girl called her brother who,
barely begun to walk, is at play;
"Come son, come. We'll go back home now," -
placing...
Elixir of Drik India
Elixir of Drik India
By Joshy Joseph
Those are the days
bygone for lingering
gone but not gone.
while you come
in the going of gone things
memory excavates .
Party at...
LAKKHINI EIGISU YELHINGTHA
LAKKHINI EIGISU YELHINGTHA
Paikhro Painingba Maikeida,
Nongmadon Khetna Leichillakta,
Naningtamna Hangla Malanglakta,
Sakhap Toina Atiyapakna.
Chajaru Umanggi Uhei,
Thakcharu Loknunggi Laija,
Tongjaru Ufeida Ningaidana,
Khongjaru Nakhou Pongna.
Eigi Yelhing Hundraba Punsise,
Lepli Ngasisu Saraba...
When I don’t feel
By BIJAYATA AKHAM
During my childhood
when I saw the moon in her calmness
raising from the Nongmaijing hill
casting its silvery rays with a smile
full of tenderness...
I DREAM OF SHEILA: HOPE SPRINGS
I DREAM OF SHEILA: HOPE SPRINGS
(Script Writer: PurnaChandra Sharma)
<Screen lights up>
<Phone rings>
Me: <Caller ID: PR><deep sigh>Yes?
<Split screen>
PR<Preet Ramani>: WASSHUPP! PC, bro?
Me: <exasperated> Mitt, no...
Kangana Ranaut launches book Between the Poet and Her Pencil
Wearing a traditional Manipuri phanek with the enaphee (dupatta) draped like a pallu, Kangana helped launch her friend’s book. Curls firmly in place, the...
Devoid
By RK Lakhi Kant
No zest, only a cheap stage
tear jerkers pass off as
folk and classical tradition
social conditions, how to nullify
the impact of new wave
westernisation...