As summer sets in, we are bringing you exotic tales from across the world! Our April issue, ‘Beyond India: From around the world’ is full of ideas, stories, photographs, views and magical moments from lands afar. Read on!
Inspired and moved by what he has read in ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’, M. Mohankumar writes a poem that invokes powerful images of the life of Anne Frank along with her family in their hideout during World War II. 2015 marks the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps.
Prerna Goel’s photo feature is surely a feast for your eyes. She captures the exquisitely beautiful and pristine waters of the Americas and also shares the emotions that came to her mind when she looked at these water bodies.
Vinita Agrawal writes a poem about the overwhelming thrill of the alien pleasures of a big city when she visited it for the first time. It’s about wanting to risk the forbidden adventures of everything unfamiliar…iconized by the metal bean structure.
The idea of home has undergone many changes in the last ten years for Lavanya Pathmanaban. A non-resident Indian, she tells us about the transition.
When people move out of India to live abroad, they unconsciously carry their motherland as memories and wear their Indian-ness like an outer skin, points out Indu Parvathi through her poem that touches upon transporters – the people who carry their motherland abroad and try to recreate it in foreign locales.
Sudha Nair tells the story of a young couple who celebrate their first Holi away from home.
Inspired by what she has heard from her brother about the town of Acre during his brief stay there, Albanian poet, Alisa Velaj pens a poem about a little girl who aspires to become a poetess.
A 21-year-old who has moved overseas to study finds herself on the threshold of freedom – for the first time – and she can’t wait to lap it all up. But is it going to be as thrilling as she expected? Rrashima Swaarup Verma tells the story.