For Devanshi Khetarpal, ‘Beyond India: From Around the world’ doesn’t just refer to countries in the geographical sense; it means how humans are transposed to different places in the tiny spaces of their minds and how volatile our imagination can be as to how we construe the meaning of being in a ‘place’. ‘The Waves’ is her poetic take about lost, undiscovered places.
Losing one’s mother tongue to a foreign language is Love’s labour lost, opines Amitabh Vikram, presenting his thoughts through a poem.
Beniprasad Chowdhary aka Ben believes that if life has to be lived anywhere on this earth, it has to be the U.S. But his wife, Veena, thinks otherwise. Ram Govardhan tells the story of Ben and his determined wife.
THE LOUNGE | THE INNER JOURNEY When Arjuna, the third of the five Pandavas, was confused whether he should fight the Mahabharata war against his own teachers, relatives and friends, Krishna spoke the Bhagavad Gita to help him achieve clarity in thought and fight the war. One of the oft-asked questions, therefore, in this context is, ‘Does the Bhagavad-Gita Advocate War? Is it a violent scripture?’ Hari Ravikumar and Koti Sreekrishna attempt to answer these questions in this piece by digging deeper into the context of the Mahabharata war.
THE LOUNGE | SLICE OF LIFE As the nation recovers from India’s loss to Australia in the cricket World Cup, Parth Pandya, a devoted fan, remembers the other unsuccessful tales of the Indian cricket team in the biggest cricket tournament.
