Nothing can be more shatteringly painful and shocking for humanity than witnessing its young minds become victims of bullets fired with hate. Vinita Agrawal shares her shock through a poem on the theme ‘Mystery & Crime’.
What would a reader of a traveller’s diary seek to know from its pages? What would its pages say? Debleena Roy pens her thoughts in a poem under the theme ‘Travel’.
An Indian, an Afghani and a Bosnian find themselves sitting together in a Sydney gym the afternoon of the hostage attack in the city in December 2014. The conversation that ensues compels each woman to dig into her own past. Preeti Madhusudhan describes the conversation, under the theme ‘History & Culture’.
From unconfessed love to falling in love with someone’s nose, this universal emotion has many dimensions. Aman Chougle captures some of these through his poems under the theme ‘Love & Friendship’.
An erstwhile top-notch detective has now begun teaching at a university, after he fails to solve a serial murder case. When looking for a Professor of Criminology for his department, he receives an interesting application. Debleena Roy tells the story under the theme ‘Mystery & Crime’.
Ashok Niyogi writes about the drum beaters, or the dhakis, who play the dhak, a large drum, during the Durga Puja. The poem is based on the theme, ‘History & Culture’.