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Delhi Diaries : Day 2- Lajpat Nagar Market and Tanka Tuesday

Having heard so much about the Delhi markets, we decided to explore it on Day 2 of our visit. My friend, who’s lived in Delhi during her school days, suggested we go to Lajpat Nagar, also known as Central Market. So that’s where we went. Protected by sunscreen, a cap, and a scarf, we braved […]

Delhi Diaries- Day 1: A visit to the Qutub Minar

P.C. Seema Latha Delhi has alluded me. Being someone who loves traveling and loves history, and Delhi being the capital of the country with a number of monuments, I should have visited it a long time ago. But it’s taken me all these years to get to the city. Not because I could not but […]

Published : 2 poems in Lothlorien Journal

I’m thrilled to share two of my poems published in th Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Both poems are centered around art. The first one is from the point of view of a novice artist and the second, is an ekphrastic poem based on the painting Bathers at Asnières’ by Georges Pierre Seurat. Here are a few lines from […]

Art: The Simple Life, Tanka Tuesday, Festival of leaves challenge

My painting, ‘The Simple Life’ is a fishing village somewhere in Europe. My last few paintings have been done without pencil sketching i.e. I’ve applied the paint directly on the blank canvas and gone about painting the picture from a photograph. I especially enjoyed painting the boats. It’s something since I’ve wanted to paint since […]

Book Review: Only in Darkness Can you See the Stars by Dr Santosh Bakaya

‘Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilisations are written the pathetic words: Too late…we still have a choice today, non-violent co-existence or violent co-annihilation.’ – Martin Luther King Jr (Only in darkness can you see the stars by Santosh Bakaya) The author has several books to her credit, both fiction and poetry. […]

Thursday Doors 05.10.23, Tanka Tuesday, Onam in Dhaka and some more reason to be thankful

I’m thankful for yesterday’s rains. They lowered the temperatures. Although, it’s been raining on and off here, it hasn’t been cool. In fact, before and after the rains, it’s been hot and humid, leaving me feeling like a shrivelled raisin, sucked of all its moisture. It’s funny how much of an influence the weather has […]

Thankful Thursday 051023 : An interview by AllAuthor and a Book Review by Lubna Ahmed on my debut novel ‘Coming Home’ and a message from a reader

I‘m excited to share my interview with AllAuthor. If you want to know more about my transition from banking to writing, what I wanted to become but did not, my inspiration and my first piece of writing, read on. Where did you grow up? As a kid, what did you want to be when you […]

Published: Confessions of a ‘Retired’ Shopaholic

I’m thrilled to see my poem published by Masticadores USA. Thank you, Barbara, for telling me you enjoyed reading my poem. If not for you, it might never have seen the light of day.I wrote this poem, two years ago, and for some reason I did not share it. I was looking through some old […]

Book Review by K. Krishnakumar of ‘Coming Home’

There is nothing more satisfying for a writer than being told by the reader that they enjoyed the book and knowing what in the book spoke to the reader. There’s no way the author will know of it unless readers share reviews. I am grateful to those readers who shared their reviews on the book. […]

Sunday Stills : Bridges – a link

The prompt for this week’s Sunday Stills is ‘Bridges’. It led me to check my digital albums. Needless to say the photograph brought back wonderful memories and made me realize how quickly time flies. Talking about bridges, there was an article in the newspaper today about a bridge being in urgent need for repair. So […]