By: Pallavi Manoj Dixit The Shared Path Life is a fast-moving race,Where everyone’s on the run.Can we lie to ourselves and claim,That we’re different from everyone? We’re just like the rest in this chase,Holding on to our own pace.When we…
By James Aitchison His rule in Romania lasted 24 brutal years. Incredibly, it ended on Christmas Day 1989 when he and his wife were executed by firing squad. Like many dictators before and since, Nicolae Ceausescu (pronounced Chow-shes-ku) refused to…
By: Andrew Nickerson Best-selling author Dan Brown’s work has long been a source of discussion and controversy amongst readers and experts alike. His work The Da Vinci Code set the world ablaze with its implications regarding Mary Magdalene, and follow-up…
By: Mayumi Yamamoto No Chance Shall I tell you about the onewho came before you? She enjoyed a carefree life,and used to ramble aroundthe house with abandon,never felt the need to beon guard. She’d curl up and sleepwherever she loved….
By: James Aitchison Consider the power ofthe limitless mind,the broadest sweep ofcomprehension.Knowledge brings glisteningnewness and light.The earthly plane evaporatesas nothing more than mist,revealing all things infiniteand eternal.They are, in truth, the onlyreality worth seizing.
By Meenakshi Malhotra From Calcutta to Kolkata:City of Dreams by Mitali Chakravarty traverses between worlds and words, as the poet’s eye sweeps across the changing cityscape, from times past recalling the erstwhile stories and narratives of Job Charnock to…
By Mou Chakraborty 1 “Who walks through this storm? Is it you, Mother Durga, arriving at such an hour of ruin?” Sanatan whispered, his voice small against the roaring sky. Lightning tore the darkness apart, and his feverish ten-year-old daughter…
By: Maryam Iftikhar You are close to me,like the brightest star in the sky.But when I lift my finger to touch it,a devastating truth breaks me:even in this world,I’m still a million stars away from you. Tides of longing sweep…
By: Andrew Nickerson Movies have long been one of the world’s best forms of entertainment, thus finding material for them is a huge responsibility for studios. Therefore, it’s no surprise that one of the oldest standbys on that front is…
By: James Aitchison In 1997, Iris Chang’s bestselling book, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, sold more than half a million copies. Within seven years, Chang would take her own life. Her book was the…