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The Plimsoll Line

The captain of a ship shares the different kinds of load that his ship carries and how the Plimsoll Line is the magic code that he has to follow. Bakul Banerjee writes a poem on the all important line under the theme ‘Science’.

Stuck between Languages

Can language be a barrier for someone who’s in love? Poornima Laxmeshwar presents her perspective through a poem on the theme ‘Love & Friendship’.

Butterfly Effect

A man listening to music suddenly travels back in time – to the memory of a butterfly that he had chased as a young man. M. Mohankumar’s poem on the theme ‘Travel’, is about travel of a different kind.

Epitaph For 132

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’.

A Traveller’s Diary

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’.

Make a Move & Other Poems

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’.

Durga Puja

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’.

Fashionista

A mother’s fashion accessories become a little girl’s source of fascination and temptation. Fashionista is the fashion (mis)adventure of that child. Shloka Shankar captures it in a poem.

The Wristwatch

A wristwatch from childhood, bought under rather strange circumstances, continues to hold a special place, even though many costlier and flashier watches make their way into the narrator’s life. M. Mohankumar’s poem is a tribute to that wristwatch.