Suggestions

April 2018

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I Am An Old Soul.

Breeze of autumn swooshes the leaves, The world gushes forth fast and furious. As I sit in a solemn wooden chair, Resting my neck in a wine red cushion By my window, lacy white curtains pushed aside Sun sets behind the cedars
April 30, 2018
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Editor’s Note – Freedom Of Choice

In early March this year, I was invited to present a research paper at a conference in Istanbul, Turkey. “I’ve never left Istanbul, never left the houses, streets, and neighbourhoods of my childhood,” says Orhan Pamuk in his Memories and the City.
April 30, 2018

Unnoticed Pulse Of Sri Lanka

The narration includes pictures of day to day struggles of strangers that I captured in Sri Lanka. Each of these moments lives within me and revisit and influence my political and academic life. The recurrent impact of these captured moments forces me
April 30, 2018
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In The Name Of The Almighty

Clouds swarmed in great dark clumps a malformed day transformed to murk as she was dumped – a squall settling beyond wailing walls, wind bawling Following through the icy halls head bowed, bag in hand flat soles slapping cold stone flags and
April 30, 2018
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Death Before Dishonour

In this case There’s no honour in being violent No honour in unleashing feelings that refuse to stay silent There’s nothing worse than Leaving your daughter more than frightened But still Some would go beyond those limits To protect the family name
April 30, 2018

Ayaz Bhuta – A Story Of Courage And Resilience

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller. Engaging in sport is more the exception than the rule in today’s busy lifestyle. Being born with Roberts Syndrome and going
April 30, 2018

The Illusion Of Corporatised Knowledge

In a corporate-dominated world, every belief has been substituted and replaced by cynical notions. Human morality is no longer in existence: human imperfections are considered to be weaknesses. We go to school just to become part of the workforce of a corporation. We
April 30, 2018

7 Sumptuous Rice Dishes Around The World

Rice plays a significant cultural role throughout many countries around the globe. It’s also the most popular grain consumed by people across Asia. There are more than 40,000 varieties of rice, and they vary in length shape, colour, and size. FemAsia
April 30, 2018
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Little Golden Books

I used to feel it a lot when I was younger. The sense of bitumen laid smoothly over something so much wilder, and more complex. The awareness of what exists, past the boundaries of the nature strip. It is a great country,
April 30, 2018
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You Can’t Write A Poem Without Me In It

No one is speaking, but everything is. The wordless hanging hurricane lanterns on breath, firefly words electric over forever’s backyard shiver me sideways inside the blizzard of myself. I’ve kissed you with that breath, the shawl of snow. Now, wherever you go
April 30, 2018
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My Salad

is made with a poetic love, like breaking lines in my poem I chop into pieces the Roma tomatoes and the English cucumber with the yellow onions, all raw adding also some boiled dried Indian chickpeas with un-fried sunflower seed, sprinkling generously
April 30, 2018
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The Baton

Verbal, verb-less, jabs of manifold colour crimson, gleaming gold and darkling from sisters of the cross of the familial kingdom arches of the eyebrows, with pits and crests on the turbulent waters of marital seas bobbing sisters, aunts, nephews, and nieces, and,
April 30, 2018
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Bus Trip

A Monologue About A Ghost & Groundhog Day I never got around to getting a driving license, having my own car. (Pauses, as if sorry). My parents were a little too high strung to teach me. My boyfriend at the time, who always
April 30, 2018
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Confluence

Waters when they evaporate, meet… at a global conference, to speak of fish dropouts, obscura of clouds, near-deaths, hydrological dynamics, monocultures, and metals: nickel, lead, chromium, at their beds. The bend is notional: water for coffee, cane, banana, paddy, mills, distilleries, fertilizer
April 30, 2018
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Sound Of The Soul

I hear the sound coming from the weeping soul You reflect it-the pain and broken heart With the spreading wing of mercy and love Solacing the weeping heart…..! Yes, the wing of the heart is broken The dancing leg is in the
April 30, 2018
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The Unspeakable Act

A Short Story Something is finally happening in my life. And I don’t mean like baba noticing the drawings and sketches I’ve been leaving around the house for him to see. No, baba is much too busy to pay attention to something
April 30, 2018
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A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

The night I think, to most people, is the scariest part of the day. Not just because it’s dark and you can’t really see much of anything, but because whatever you saw in the daytime now looks very unfamiliar. Unfamiliarity scares us
April 30, 2018
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#DONTPRAY

“I miss those simple times” but maybe We lived through a mere interim False hope Prayed for healing rains on our dreamy heads not ashfalls among the dead. Oh “I miss those simple times” but don’t you remember? Our foundations, our hopes
April 30, 2018
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A Distant Rumble

Last night it rained. I lived that storm in my senses. Felt in my bones that inevitable hush… The calm before the storm. Listened to the distant rumbling of thunder and watched distant flashes of lightning illuminate the night sky. I stepped
April 30, 2018
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The Journey

In the time between Blooming and withering of a flower…. In the time between One gunshot and another…. In the time between Two explosions you hear… Children set off on perilous journeys, From darkness to darkness… The sun and the moon Armed
April 30, 2018

A Note on Laïcité ( French secularism ) -My Thoughts

Classical anti-Semitism rooted in nationalist notions viewed Jews as a distinct cultural entity functioning outside the national collective, particularly within the Germanic majoritarian context. This perspective considered Jews not as a demand for a separate polity but as a religious-cultural group that
April 30, 2018