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July 2021

Infertility And Women In Africa

Infertility affects millions of people of reproductive age worldwide and has an impact on their families and communities. Estimates suggest that between 48 million couples and 186 million individuals live with infertility globally.[1] Childlessness is the state of being without offspring. It
July 25, 2021

A Choice That’s Not A Choice

The impact books have on our lives is not limited to the words written between the covers. Some books inspire new thoughts and send us to unexpected places. Follow me Down the Rabbit Hole in this recurring segment. During
July 25, 2021

Eyes Are The Windows To The Soul

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I have always loved people and have always wanted to learn about them from up close. People, their culture, their experiences, always fascinated me since my childhood. I found out that photography gives me opportunities to go and learn about
July 25, 2021

Changing The Script

When Dylan sang The Times They are a Changin’ in 1964, a clarion call to generations of rebellious young people, he (and we) would have never imagined just how prophetic his words were. If there is anything constant in our contemporary mediascapes,
July 25, 2021
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The Eulogy of Doctored Tresses

  I stand before the mirror Watching the comb work itself upon My hair. Partitioning them in strands That fall and fissure apart.   The teeth, Of the comb press down upon the scalp My medicated one Not the one, victory borne
July 25, 2021
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In Tribute To Toko Shinoda (1913-2021)

This series of ekphrastic tanka was inspired by Toko Shinoda, an amazing and important contemporary Japanese artist connected with the Abstract Expressionist movement. Toko Shinoda passed away on the 1st of March this year. This portfolio is a memorial
July 25, 2021
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Amaltas

Last night, while reading out a Gaelic verse to me, She said she’d wanted to see a golden shower tree! We discussed how long it had been since we were out last time, Perhaps even longer since we saw
July 25, 2021

Rising Cases of Violence Against Women

Jammu & Kashmir Needs a Women’s Commission. Waiting since morning inside Kashmir’s only women’s police station in Ram Bagh area of Srinagar for her abusive husband, 30-year-old Rukaya Jan and her three minor daughters were growing restless. Despite
July 25, 2021
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Sometimes One Gets Nothing

No endearing book, No kind people, No beautiful flower, Neither a fascinating garden, Nor the sweet-smelling breeze. Quite often even the hands don’t Glow with the mustard of Heena,   Sometimes one gets nothing, Nothing happens that,  Can
July 25, 2021
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The kiss of Judas

For the re-telling of this tale, “The Kiss of Judas”, I made my preliminary notes from the Holy Bible. But I also borrowed some facts from the Gospel of Judas. It is the latter text that mentions that Judas purchased a field
July 25, 2021
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Breastfeeding

Come my child and feed on these breasts This time maybe my milk will come I’ve removed the scabs, cleaned up the blood The doctor says if you suckle enough My body will answer your hunger Come my child, help
July 25, 2021
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What You Are

I have paid the price For being what I am, I proclaim with pride. I have withstood icy glances, Burning words, entombing silences; Merciless shutting of emotional doors; Smouldering resentment that flashed cruelly Like bloodstained swords in battle;
July 25, 2021

Life – A Path of Choices

The shape, the form and the structure of our life right here right now is a series of choices that grew and expanded consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and unintentionally over the years. What choices do you engage in every day? What
July 25, 2021

And It Continues

Mrinalini’s joy was infectious. Everyone around her could feel it. After all, her dream was going to become a reality. She had known Nikhil all her life. They had grown up together, studied in the same school, college and
July 25, 2021
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Free Fall

In the deep recesses of the mind A thought unfurls Like leaves in the sun. Words freefall Leaving me to wonder What is lost in translation.
July 25, 2021
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Melting Pot

Somewhere over the blue Pacific, I lost my Indian accent it tumbled out of me into the crashing surf I was born again as a true American, a California girl. Grey coastal fog, fields of strawberries and freeway traffic
July 25, 2021
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I Interpret My Colourless Drink

 The Painting in graphite pencil is by Artist Anthony Gartmond, New Jersey, USA Pour yourself some scotch. Pour yourself some water. Pour yourself some erudition from the Tree of Souls, and I’ll listen. Pour yourself some ire, some envy, some conceit, and
July 25, 2021
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Zubaida – The Warrior

Prologue The Fork in the kitchen rack knew a dark secret. Something gruesome. Still, the Fork was a forced ally. Aye! that was it. A muted ally. A cold friend who was her solace.  Stealthily, the footsteps would approach
July 25, 2021
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VHS Tapes

Tapes are the comrades to simplicity.  cassette click. Margherita pizzas our incense. indeed a mouldy remnant of earlier times but the only place left to see long gone family like mufasa from the lion king.   an era of
July 25, 2021
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Sketching A Bird

Turning into text the image of an impulsive act I place it upon the glass table of my cabin While combing my hair a strand falls upon the text. Turning passionately into a bird The text breaks open the
July 25, 2021
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New Beginning

For Happy New Year  I heard last night, Oh it’s time for new beginnings. But I slept before New Year. People wished me a good LUCK, But I slept before New Year. I Ended my Year before New Year, I SLEPT BEFORE
July 25, 2021
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Cucumber Stream

Vellamaathi and her son Thalamuthu resolved to leave the palm garden-at present, there was only the label but hardly for the fact, was there any trace of one such a garden. To illustrate the Palmyra garden and its reality, not even
July 25, 2021
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Régis Debray

The thought of Régis Debray Is not for everyone you know Well, it’s complicated, Each thought setting off Trajectories multiple, Prancing, forward Régis Debray! we who are about to die Salute thee, in the face of Torture, death, impalement, castration The
July 25, 2021
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The Old Mother of Freedom

Push me! Pull me! Maul me! Haul me! I’m old I’m frail Do you reckon I’m easy prey, because my hair’s turned grey? Oh! you slight mighty men Don’t you be fooled you can drive me away! Shame on you! With
July 25, 2021
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Bavarian Inn

In Shepherdstown, West Virginia, over on the side of a mountain, overlooking the roaring waters of a river below and just beyond the meeting of three states in my country, there stands a restaurant serving traditional German dishes with German
July 25, 2021
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The Perfume Bottle

The perfume bottle was once, Filled with colourful liquid, Lying down on the dressing table, It once had a life of its own. Now seems empty with empty hopes, Lying down without colour and light, That coloured perfumed water, Vanished
July 25, 2021
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Cardamom Tea

  “We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.” — Seneca. This pandemic has given us a perfect reason to change some of our old, perhaps unhealthy habits. Here’s
July 25, 2021