Some thoughts from an OC – Suresh Sethi 1961-66
Suresh Sethi E-mail: sureshsethi49@yahoo.co.in My poems have been published in: Poetry, Australia : Australia Five Poets Magazine Journal Of South Asian Literature:USA The Canadian Forum : Canada Queens’s Quarterly : Canada The New Quest : India Indian Literature : Sahitaya Academy–India The Penguin Book Of Indian Poetry: India 2012 Signatures : National Book Trust […]
The Oceans – by Vivek Bhasin
How cool You feel Walking on Soft Sand White Gold Smiling sure Windmilled hair Wind Whispers Sometimes Roars Seagulls flock Busy business Feet Wet Shells whistle How Great You Feel Knowing all Memories return Love found Embracing you Hugging me Heartfelt Goodbye Love lost Nothing around Blue Sea Not Knowing Lookouts posted Gleaning across Miles […]
George Floyd and what is happening around – by Jerry Godinho
I have received countless calls, emails, texts, and messages on all social media channels as to my response to the death of George Floyd. I do apologize for my delayed response. I am helping my wife battle cancer. At the beginning of this week, I got a text that a dear friend from my youth […]
Miss Marie Bonnaud…The Boys from BCS
…. 7th April 1990…. MS Scandinavian Star a passenger and car ferry plying between Olso Norway and Fredrikshavn Denmark, experienced a heart wrenching maritime disaster orchestrated by way of a planned sabotage by a few of the vessel’s crew members. This resulted in a fatalistic fire resulting in 159 deaths… One of the root causes […]
Dan Dhanoa COVID19 survivor writes
Guest Column: Reflections of a Covid-19 survivor The disease normally will not kill if you are proactive when you feel unwell by starting to monitor the symptoms. Keep a check on some health parameters and take timely treatment April 26th 2020 By Dan Dhanoa, Hindustan Times Chandigarh As someone who has suffered from and survived […]
Some random thoughts – Indi Khanna
On the cusp of adding another year in my life I find myself, uncharacteristically, sitting idle at my clean-as-a-whistle office table. With little else to do, one’s mind does tend to wander. So today I very consciously gave it a free rein, allowing it to meander along down my 67 years, picking up little bits […]
Remembering – by Vivek Bhasin
R E M E M B E R… the day I clambered on the Kalka Mail aged five. Mr Das Gupta was the Calcutta party escort.. ..the train chugged in to Kalka and it was bitter cold the 1st of March 59 years ago.. We changed to the hill train and chug-chugged up through 103 […]
The Wrong Doers – by Vivek Bhasin
What did I do wrong… did I break bounds and wreck the fence and let the lambs out? So hungry wolves might ..encircling pounce? What did you do wrong… did you jump the light on amber turning red wishing to get home to tuck your child to bed? What did they do wrong… with a […]
Think of Happy Days
Never before has a pandemic thrust the world into such a frenzy. Nations, acutely consider the loss of life just as important as livelihoods and causing desperate economic measures for the future. It is just my feeling this may bring about surrender away from war & hate to global peace. Behind all this […]
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining – by Nalin Sood
Hello friends. Hope you and your families are safe and you are taking good care of yourself .While we wait for this pandemic to come to an end, I just felt like sharing this personal experience with you all. Hope you will find some time to read this and reflect. The night before the Janta […]