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This poem is a stroll down the poet's memory lane, reminiscing about her son’s enchantment with the natural world as a child.
The Terrible Secrets of Growing Up
'Maybe all of life is yearning, to feel the same way you felt at 13, never knowing that sometimes dreams wilt away in the heat.'
More Than a Piece of Furniture: It Is Sometimes as if These Old Pianos Have Souls
It tugs at the heartstrings to see an instrument that has weathered over a century of faithful service get carted to the tip, or “piano heaven” as insiders say.
Moongazer
A poem on the nostalgia that often haunts us all our lives — a lost childhood and lost innocence.
Poetry Review | Writing Locality as Text: Abhay K’s ‘Monsoon’
With its global and public consciousness of history, ecology, and climate change, poet-diplomat Abhay K’s 'Monsoon' can still successfully awaken nostalgia for the small, the personal and the minor.
Lone Fox Dancing at Ninety
A personal essay that reflects upon the author's 90-year-old grandfather's intimate experience of reading Ruskin Bond's autobiography 'Lone Fox Dancing'.
Tablets for Trees and Other Plants
The poet writes about his early life, and delves into nostalgia.
Review: Tracing the History of Punjab’s Nobility
In 'The Punjab Chiefs: The Lost Glory Of The Punjab Aristocracy In India And Pakistan', Bobby Singh Bansal manages to capture the very quintessence of the aureate period of Sikh …
A Tangible/ Not So Tangible Walk Down Memory Lane
When a song triggered a series of memories.