ELECTIONS 2024: Loudspeakers, Language, Sound and Action…
ByHarsimran Kaur June 2, 2024 The moment of truth arrives on June 04, 2024. Preceding the blizzard of ‘election results’, blather of ‘truth’ and ‘lies’ cascaded under the sleeves of the ministers and politicians, finally burling through the unbridled loudspeakers. Did what they say matter? Were they being real? Or, it was the charlatans fanning […]
Magic Pill by Johann Hari Book Review
Harsimran Kaur On May 24, 2024, In Book Review, Magic Pill by Johann Hari – Non Fiction Rating: 5/5 Magic Pill by Johann Hari Book Review I am crossing a bridge; below rapids entangle in the mystified wind, not to be seen. Their conceited analogy amazes me; up & down, turning deliquescent as they roar intemperately to touch the invisible sky. […]
UNCLE SAM FINDS A TRUE CALLING….
ByHarsimran Kaur May 14, 2024 The buzzer reads ‘RED’—Uncle Sam has been caught off-guard! Was it the fault in the stars or did the misbegotten cadence of inappropriate humor fell heavily on his head; the stars following an invisible thread straight from cartoon strips, phosphenes being the cause for the bizarre phenomenon. Albeit for Uncle […]
THE LOVE THAT HAD NO NAME
BySunaina Luthra May 10, 2024 By: Sunaina Luthra Beyond the realm ofMundane duties and responsibilitiesNurturing and caregivingEverything and nothingnessLies my tranquil sanctuaryMy hermitage for my emotional healing, a spiritual bondLifting me from the abyss of forlorn Of seven vows once taken with conviction’s glowNow, just sepulchral promises echo in the shadowsWhen all attempts at compromise […]
A MOSQUE OR A TEMPLE
ByHarsimran Kaur May 9, 2024 A Leap of Faith or a Lesion of Faith A temple vandalized is a faith repressed; a mosque built over it is a faith conquered. The indiscernible act of pulling down the mosque is an impressionistic faith; a temple then constructed over it is a faith again repressed. Religion otherwise […]
The Lost Bookshop By Evie Woods Book Review
Sunaina Luthra On May 07, 2024, In Book Review, The Lost Bookshop By Evie Woods– Fiction Rating: 5/5 The Lost Bookshop By Evie Woods Book Review Why is it always necessary to navigate a difficult terrain to realize one’s purpose of life? We carry an unclaimed anguish and opportune resilience to craft a perspective lapidary of life. Does it come out […]
THE MEMORY
ByHarsimran Kaur April 20, 2024 The intemperate hand slides through the pack of photos. I glare at them; non-existent to my remembrance, they have become use to my iniquity. Some of them have developed a cast of furtive cracks, a rub-off of the surroundings. I look at the tree behind me; it looks like a […]
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER – THE GULLIBLE AND THEIR GUILT
ByHarsimran Kaur April 5, 2024 I sit with my arms tightly embracing the folds of my knees, rocking back and forth. The spell of chill sends shock waves through the nerve impulses, and I cry for a warm tusk to coil my fragile silhouette. I am in cognizance of what’s happening; it has happened before. […]
THE CANCER IN ME
ByHarsimran Kaur April 5, 2024 Cancer comes in as a distinguished guest, and with no fault of it is saddened by how execrably the human fanatic imprecates it. We are often so unapologetic in its condemnation. It has neither a face nor a semblance to the ghost pirouetting in the dark shadowy nights; but around […]
The Women By Kristin Hannah
Harsimran Kaur On Mar 20, 2024, In Book Review, The Women By Kristin Hannah– Fiction Rating: 5/5 Frankie McGrath lands in Vietnam to fight the wounds of the debilitated and the incapacitated. The egregious war has turned Vietnam into a forbidding territory of impassioned impressions albeit curled with imprudence and impropriety. Frankie is not the combat on the ground; feet in […]