It was noon. Well, at least that is what the office clock seemed to show. But the view from the window showed something entirely different. The sun had bee...

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I have always been terrible at remembering things. Things that are as recent as what dress my girlfriend wore today or what was it that I was getting mad a...

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As the thick cover of dirty yellow and pale orange almost blocks the morning sun from shining through the window on the left wall of Sikander's two-room hu...

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As we lay on the soft grass gazing at the sky, I turned to face her. Her skin lit up with the dim moon light to a pale blue hue. The light doing its magic ...

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We all have our own safe spaces. A library, a gym, a friend, songs, writing so on and so forth. I, after 12 odd years, finally realized my safe space. And ...

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Waves came crashing on the coast and splayed on it like a mirror. They rose over the sea like spirits of the dead. Like pangs of a buried past they stretch...

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Ever felt like something inside of you is cracking up? Like your hitherto solid frame has now started to break apart. Cracks have started making their way ...

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“We have not inherited the earth from our fathers, we are borrowing it from our children.” – Lester BrownWhen you come to think of it, I...

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“Shreyu” came an old voice from the lobby of our house in Haldwani. I had seen the change in the texture of this voice throughout my growi...

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At the crack of dawn, as the sky begins to shift from a dark violet to a warm golden-orange and the rosy periwinkles wake up from their night long slumber;...

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The concept of Cultural Studies can be understood as a study of culture in order to understand a society and the politics that governs it. Having a sense o...

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Gazing at the Agra Fort, leaning against the railing of the mausoleum, I couldn’t help but think about the grandeur of the red sandstone structure t...

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How often have you felt the urge of bursting out all that you hold within? Does it ever happen to you that you just lose control over your body as your min...

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There is a lot of history that one often takes for granted. History that goes unnoticed in the wilted yellow pages of struggle and resistance. Uttarakhand ...

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I can’t help being fascinated by the stars of the night sky. In summers if there is anything that would even remotely make me want to get out of my ...

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Every time that I go back and look at this photo, I am filled with feelings that I find really hard to describe. It’s painfully beautiful, this sigh...

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These days I have been thinking about life quite a bit. Perhaps this comes from the uneasiness and amplified uncertainty that came as another quite deadly ...

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How long is a decade? Does it have to be 10 years? Time was supposed to have a reference, was it not? Because I don’t see decade in years, or the wo...

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