Category: Non fiction
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A letter to Santa 🧑🎄🎄- Sameer Gudhate
Dear Santa, I hope this letter finds you and Mrs. Claus in good health and surrounded by the festive cheer of the North Pole. Hope that when you receive this letter you have not started your early journey to deliver happiness to the world. As the year draws to a close, I find myself reflecting…
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A letter to my Dear Santa🎄- Nilshree Damani
Dear Santa, How have you been? If you are expecting this to be another letter that has a list of demands, well, then, you are wrong! We have all grown up with this concept of Santa gifting us the things we wished for on Christmas. Then came a time when we realized, our parents are…
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All The Godly Creatures- Hirak Dasgupta
(A commentary on the human tendency to appraise and possess) First, there was a bunch of dogs. Then came the pigeons, and now there’s a cow. Rain or shine, they all come to see me in the mornings. Biscuits for the dogs. Leftover vegetables for the cow. And the pigeons are particularly fond of mustard.…
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Ideals can be our prison- Raghava Deepak
Impersonal observation of the facts of existence is only possible when one does not escape into ideals, but rather one has to look at ‘what is’ in the present in the mirror of relationship without the baggage of prejudice upon one’s own thoughts. The baggage of the self acquired from the past is imposing a…
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On Palestine: A letter to the citizens of my country – Chirag Saxena
To the citizens of India, The worst of all evils in the world is the generalization and dehumanization of a particular group in the world. It was done to Africans, Jews during the Holocaust, Indians during British rule, and the Palestinians have been subjected to this for decades. While I can understand the neutral geopolitical…
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How reading helps you grow – Tanvi Agarwal
Tanvi Agarwal is a published author, avid reader, and book reviewer. You can follow her on Instagram. As Marcus Tullis Cicero said, “A room without books is like a body without a soul,” I believe a person who does not read misses the virtue of different emotions, exploration, self-discovery, and knowledge. Reading plays a crucial…