Author: Aneesha Saran
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Where does our childhood go?
Featured Illustration: ‘Swing of Love’ by Darshan Sompura Where does our childhood go When we force ourselves to grow Does it sit in the broken swings Hugging itself tight, yearning For a warmth that will never come Does it lie under the covers Shining a bright light in the middle…
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Locket
Inside the rusted locket Lies the old burnt image From a time I can no longer see Of someone long lost But the more and more I look Over the eyes that still have their shine And trace the details of their face The more I get confused Were all…
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Masks
Featured Illustration: Emilia Khan Trigger Warning: Abuse. . . . The way your hands move As you gracefully go about Light on your feet And a sweet scent of flowers trails behind you And every time you stumble With every step making you wince The limp in your light steps…
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Threads
Featured Artwork: Artem Stefanov I sew myself shut With the delicate threads of false hope That maybe tomorrow I could move freely again Void of the looming fear That one single string would break And everything would fall apart All around my numb body as I lay curled Clawing at…
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Find Me
Featured Artwork: KwangHo Shin Find me in those torn up pages filled with empty words sitting at the bottom of my drawer. Find me in those empty boxes of paint and the overused bristles of a thick brush. Find me in the sweets that stay snuggled within your already heavy…
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they tell a story
The scars on her body They all tell a story For she had been ridden of freedom To speak, to laugh, to live & to love With a life planned out just for her She was caught in binding ropes Her “well wishers” had weaved oh so carefully But the…
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Writer’s Block: Tips & Tricks to Get You Going Again
If you like to write, then you’ve probably suffered from writer’s block every now and again, times where your mind doesn’t feel like working and decides that it’s time go off on an unnecessarily long vacation. A lot of people tend to take a break themselves to wait out the…
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The Indian Education System: What’s Wrong and What Needs To Be Done
India has managed to create quite a few well-renowned and successful doctors, engineers, artists, and scientists. And that would possibly imply that the education system here is pretty top notch, and something that you can rely on — well, that’s not really the case at all. The Indian education system…
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Is this meant for me?
Ever since I was a child I was told about how my marriage will be How the halls of a big room will be decorated with flowers and diyas How I’ll be wearing the prettiest red dress How they’ll find me the man of my dreams and how I’ll spend…