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...
A Short Grace To Monsoon
A Short Grace To Monsoon
By T. Priyokumar
The sun is set behind the mountain,
A warm glow, a half halo,
For birds to wing to their heart,
Yes,...
Sharmila
Sharmila (15.7.2013)
By: Sophia Arambam
A legend, an enigma, a unique human being,
Unsung and unknown
To most people of the world,
Frail body, wild hair, pale skin...
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...
Short Story : The lady who thanked her doctor after her death
By V.N. Devi
Chaobi is a lady patient like any other, who got married and was ready for a child. She wanted a family like...
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...
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...
`Where 5,000 Graves Don`t Speak`
By Ananya S Guha
Yes they don’t speak.
How can they?
They are merely graves.
Head less.
Face less.
They seek refuge
In the insides of
Molten, clayey earth.
They are not despoiled.
Their...
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...
Patriots Day – Ode to Great Martyrs of Manipur
PATRIOTS' DAY
(An ode to the great Martyrs' of Manipur on the occasion of Patriots' Day)
Full of pride, honour, gay
Glorious Patriots' Day today;
Bravest...
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...
My First Born
By Michae
A smile visible on my two month Old’s lip,
Is all it takes for me to realise the power of a smile;
A smile followed...
Yesterday's Bird
Yesterday's Bird
By T. Priyokumar
My wife calls out, aloud, to me,
In a complaining mood.
But,
That troubles me not why,
For it is of love that she nags,
Of...
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...