Jai javaan, jai kisaan | Vaishnavi M S

ಜಗತ್ತಿಗೆಲ್ಲಾ ಅನ್ನದಾತರು,

ಅವರೇ ನಮ್ಮ ಹೆಮ್ಮೆಯ ರೈತರು.

ಭಾರತ ಮಾತೆಯ ರಕ್ಷಕರು,

ಅವರೇ ನಮ್ಮ ದೇಶದ ಸೈನಿಕರು.

ಜನರ ಹಸಿವನ್ನು ನೀಗಿಸದೇ ಇರುವುದಿಲ್ಲ,

ತಿನ್ನುವ ಅನ್ನದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಷವನ್ನು ಬೇರೆಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ.

ಶತ್ರುಗಳ ಗುಂಡೇಟಿಗೆ ಹೆದರುವುದಿಲ್ಲ,

ದೇಶ ರಕ್ಷಣೆಯನ್ನು ಮರೆಯುವುದಿಲ್ಲ.

ನಮ್ಮ ದೇಶವು ರೈತ ಪ್ರಧಾನ,

ನಮ್ಮ ರೈತರಿಗೊಂದು ನನ್ನಯ ನಮನ.

ದೇಶವನ್ನು ಕಾಯುವರು ಪ್ರತಿದಿನ,

ನಮ್ಮ ಯೋಧರಿಗಿಲ್ಲ ಯಾರು ಸಮಾನ.

ಮಳೆಯಿಲ್ಲ, ಬೆಳೆಯಿಲ್ಲ ಕಿಂಚಿತ್ತು ಫಲವಿಲ್ಲ,

ಆದರೂ ತಮ್ಮ ಶ್ರಮವ ಬಿಡಲಿಲ್ಲ.

ವೈರಿಗಳ ಗುಂಡೇಟಿಗೆ ಎದೆಯು ಸೀಳಿತಲ್ಲ,

ಆದರೂ ವೈರಿಗಳ ಕೊಲ್ಲದೆ ಬಿಡಲಿಲ್ಲ.

ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಂದು ಅನ್ನದ ಆಗುಳಿನಲ್ಲಿಯೂ,

ಅಡಗಿರುವುದು ರೈತರ ಶ್ರಮ.

ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬ ಸೈನಿಕನ ಕಣಕಣದಲ್ಲೂ,

ಅಡಗಿರುವುದು ದೇಶ ಪ್ರೇಮ.

ಬೆಳೆಗಳನ್ನು ಬೆಳೆದನು,

ಭೂಮಿಯನ್ನು ಹಸಿರಾಗಿಸಿದನು.

ಹಿಮಗಳ ಮಧ್ಯ ನುಸುಳಿ ವೈರಿಗಳ ಕೊಂದನು,

ಭಾರತ ಮಾತೆಯ ಹೆಮ್ಮೆಯ ಪುತ್ರನು.

ಕೈ ಕೆಸರಾದರೆ ಬಾಯಿ ಮೊಸರು,

ಎನ್ನುತ ಹೊಲದಲ್ಲಿ ದುಡಿಯುವರು.

ಎಂದೆಂದಿಗೂ ದೇಶ ಸೇವೆಗೆ ಸಿದ್ಧ,

ವೈರಿಗಳ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ಮಾಡುವರು ಯುದ್ಧ.

ಕಷ್ಟಗಳನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ನುಂಗುವರು,

ಲೋಕಕೆ ಅನ್ನವನ್ನು ನೀಡುವರು.

ನಮ್ಮಯ ಸೈನಿಕ ನಮ್ಮಯ ರಕ್ಷಕ,

ಭಾರತ ಮಾತೆಯ ಹೆಮ್ಮೆಯ ಸೇವಕ.

Eyes | Dr Tanulina Sarkar

These hours, these days,

Spent in an idle haze,

Eyes wide open,

But see nothing with their distant gaze.

Oh, but these eyes!

How dearly they wish to cry,

But lest they be frowned upon,

Only let out a silent sigh.

Just yesterday, it seems,

They had seen a million dreams,

Of a future filled with passion and joy,

Of soaring high up, amidst the sunbeams.

But in an instant, these rays now lost,

Plunged into darkness, so deep so vast,

It seems like a bottomless pit,

Into which these eyes are cast.

All day and all night long,

The leaves sing a woeful song,

Rustling and waving to the tune,

Bidding the eyes to sing along.

But these forlorn eyes, they dare not speak,

For the immense darkness has made them weak,

Wishing for someone to share their agony,

Alas! They know not where to seek.

Blind and hapless the eyes live on,

Nowhere to find the spark that once shone,

Only to be caressed by the ethereal beam,

Then can rest as the lids become one.

The Epiphany of Love | Pratyusha Neog

" Do you believe in love? " She asked.

With curiosity glimmering in her eyes

Waiting impatiently for my answer.

I said " Why yes of course I do otherwise I wouldn't be saying that I love you . "

Her eyes hinting a sense of dissatisfaction like this wasn't the answer she wanted to hear.

" No do you believe in love?

Love as an emotion, love as an expression, love as a declaration, love as power, love as a sense of freedom, love as vain, love as a conquerer. "

I looked at her in awe, wondering how deeply she felt, admiring her thoughts, the beauty of her mind.

" Do you believe in it? " She asked again, eagerly waiting for my answer, a sense of desperation in her voice and a pang of hurt flashing in her eyes, hoping for an answer I cannot give her.

I firmly say " No, no I don't "

The first tear drops, she looks away.

I grace her hand, but she pushes it away,

she pushes me away.

Before I get a chance to tell her why,

she walks away with ache in her heart and tears in her eyes.

She looks back one last time and says

" If you don't believe in it, how can you ever mean it when you say that you love me? "

I hesitate to speak my mind,

but by the time I am ready, she has already walked out the door and out of my life.

So I confess, to the old and empty room I am in, with no one to hear me, just the four walls I am guarded by.

" Oh I believed in love once, all of it, I felt truly fierce and powerful, yet gentle and kind. I was caressed and kindled, I was reminded time and time again for its significance. "

" I saw love everywhere I went, the leaves dancing as the winds whistled, the ink of a pen making love to paper, the faint sound of laughter that came from that little girl when she first learnt how to ride a bike, how the mere smell of coffee in the morning lightened up the faces of so many, the joy in his face when he finally found the song he was searching for days, the way that rusty scent of an old novel safely tucked away in the back of some shelf rejuvenated times I had almost forgotten about. The way my eyes lit up everytime I saw my father plant a kiss on my mother's lips. The way he looked at her, the tales of the past, the present and the future that he told, ' Your mother and I? I met her at the old vinyl shop it was love at first sight and I plan to keep her here with me forever.' "

" Oh how I wished to have found a love that strong. But as I grew older I saw it all. The truth. The dark truth that love blinds you from. He only loved her on the good days, the others he spent drinking away. He then takes his first hit, buying her flowers the next day, calling it love and an outburst of anger, promising her it will never happen again. It only happens more until love turns to anger, to pain and to hurt. I watch it all enfold in front of me. Making a vow to myself ' I will never be my father' "

" Years later when I saw her, I called her ' the love of my life ', showering her with all affection left in me, I gave her the world I thought. But the world too comes to an end, so when I ran out of love to give, I gave away all the hate, an emotion you can never run out of. I poured all of my misery on to her. The next thing I know I find her bleeding in my arms, realising I had become what I had feared the most, my father. But that day I also realised something else, love is an illusion, it is a veil that only keeps the monster in you caged. But when the hunger strikes the monster eventually breaks free, revealing all your wounds and flaws, your raw and naked self. The unlovable side of you. So no, I do not believe in love and all it's glory because it is not true and never will be. "

ফিরে যাওয়ার পালা | Arpita Chowdhury

এক দিন শীতের দুপুরে,

সোনালী আলোর ছায়া তে,

বারান্দাতে বসেছিলাম

দুই হাত বাড়িয়ে।

সবুজ আলোর পরে,

হালকা হওয়ার সাথে,

উড়েছে আমার ঘুম,

জানিনে সে কোন খেয়ালে।

চে থাকি চোখ মেলে, চা তা যে ঠান্ডা হয়ে যাচ্ছে,

বুঝিনি যে আমি সেটা ওই প্রহরে।

যেতে চাই অনেক দূরে,

ভাবিনি কোথায়,

বিকেল যে পরে আসছে,

এবার যে ফিরে যাওয়ার পালা।

রেলের আওয়াজ যেন মন যায় কাঁপিয়ে,

অফিস থেকে আসছে সব্বাই,

ট্রাফিকের যন্ত্রনা কাটিয়ে।

জানিনে কবে ফিরব আমি,

সিঁড়ি থেকে এক-দু পা নেবে,

চা তা যে জল হয়েগেল,

মাটি হলো সব ভাবনা।

গল্প হলেও সত্যি হবে,

বিশ্বাস যে আমার আছে,

কালো আকাশে তারা এসেছে,

রোদ্দুর আসবে আবার ঘুরে।

আজকের মতন এখানেই থাক,

এবার যে ফিরে যাওয়ার পালা।।

Jaadu jo khud tujme hai | Kajal Singh

Meri mano to tum bhi maan lo,

Jo maine aaj hai maan lia.

Ki Jaadu jesi koii cheez nahi,

Or jo hai toh ,,Tum me bhi h.

Maan lo aaj, ki jo kaam krne se

Tum ab tak katraate aae ho,

Ho na ho ,, wo tumhe hi hai krna

Tumse behtar kisi se na hona.

Himmat haar jo tum baithe ho ek paar

Yaad dilaa du ,manjil ab jyada door nai

To uth fir or daud lga ,, bharosha rakh

Naav utha or manjhdhaar ban..

Maan le ab, jo maine hai maan lia,

Kuch kaam tujse hi hai hone ,

Rakh himmat , koshish kar aur mehnat kar

Door nai hai ab manjil jara kadam to bdha

Faasle door ho skte hai , par

Mann hi mann me use chahne ki

Lalak jo hai ,,use mat mitaa..

Darr mat ,, use bdh jane de ....

Aaega wo din bhi jab kaamyabi tere kadam chumegi

Tb kismat bhi saath hogi or tarraki bhi

Bs bhool mt jana ki ye mehnat se mila hai

Ye us jaadu se mila h jo khud tere andar hai

Bs phir maan lena jo

maine h aj maan lia

Ki jaadu jesi koii cheez nai

Joh hai to wo tere andar bhi h

Tere andar bhi h …

(Real magic is inside you )

Nostalgic Butterflies | Tanisha Saravana Kumar

Nostalgia flutters

like a Butterfly with glass wings

It shines,it twinkles

like thousand golden yellow fairy lights

but suddenly it shatters

into a million sharp glass pieces of regret

stabbed the heart

and memories bled to death

Footprints of memories

washed away with tides of regret

slowly forgotten

like a withering rose

holding on to the fading faint fragrance of reminiscence

Beautiful albums of memories

whitened with silver fish of regret

Dying screeching echoes of beautiful recollections

no longer resonate rememberance

Shadows of regret

haunting the dreams of the past

Let them go

for we have all made mistakes...

Your heart defines bravery | Ananya Bansiwal

The weather turns colder, and the days grow shorter, but the questions inside my head, and the list of things I wish I had said grows longer!

I have something to say to this world, that I couldn't since these many years, now it is itching to get out of me, and I can hold no longer.

I think this is the hardest part of all, that we have an undeniable will to love people whom we grow around, and in the return, they have an unrealized behavior of wrecking and pulling us down.

And there comes the pain, that like no-one else feels like a very close part of me.

I've been betrayed as a child. The images blur, but I still feel that clear.

I never had been the one to rage against them.

"What if they're just about to understand!"

All the times I've been screaming in silence, whenever you're in my head, questioning my existence.

How abruptly, we've grown into people we thought we'd never be.

It's no wonder how life sets a contrast to us, how in these moments, I've made myself look like a stranger.

Tired of apologizing for things that break me.

And to all the horrors of this life, the only thing haunted here;; is my heart.

My hands tremble when I hold love.

A part of me dies each time I see myself with people for whom I'll never be enough.

I've been searching for something I can't reach.

For the longest time, you felt like hope and scarlet skies.

I thought you were the sunlight slicing my dark, when all you did was sketching everything dark.

I'm still tracing the scars and secrets I've buried five fires ago.

I do not know if it matters to you as much as it does to me.

If my head could be a little less noisy, if I knew how to scream, And I wasn't all alone, when it's too crowded and stuffed in there.

I tried to fix this, but maybe in a parallel universe I don't have to!

In another life, I will change the course of fate.

If, what I'm living meant anything more than being locked inside a place forever, maybe not forever, but for as long as I breathe. Do you not think, that we're pieces or boxes,

trapped and closed moving inside our spaces, losing sense, Is that what life had planned?

I tried to think, but I couldn't!

If I were drunk right now, I'd say I'm too low to be high anymore.

It's filled, but it's vacant.

What is grief on a shot of truth, my heart on ice!

Swallow the emptiness you feel and bleed, what else would you do with it.

I'm glad, that I could keep up, bruised, broken, and yet smiling.

But now, whenever I look at the mirror, we don't ask each other how we've been, I would lie to the mirror and the mirror would lie to me.

This heart of mine, no longer wrenches in misery.

There's a different tune now, that I'm lately learning.

If I feel something, it is that none of us can escape being a human anymore. I don't have anything to grab or withhold back.

It's just me, and my space, that fills with stillness, and all that I can really hold on to, is myself.

You know what's the good part about people, they say they don't want to see you hurt, and apparently: apparently they do everything // everything to keep you from believing that they're good, They treasure you in the deepest and purest form //

You trust them even when you can't trust the mirror,

Even if you have to choose between them and yourself, it would never be you.

They teach you to not be locked inside your own head, like old locked drawers //

In no sense of time, they feel like hope; for that very moment, you exit your wounds,

You go million moons apart doing things for them, they teach you poems about self-love // so that when they leave, and act selfish, you owe them a promise you couldn't keep.

That's the beautiful part about humans // There's no way out to shutting people.

For the rest of our lives, we just think,

"What if we've not been there, so where would we be"?

But my friend, you deserve to let go of the heaviness in your chest, knowing your heart defines bravery.

Her thoughts | Shweta Mahani

The engine of her thoughts began...

Poured them in poetry

and gave a glimpse

of her lovestory

In her thoughts

She was left alone

with making memories

that were too deep to stop

They kept sliding in her head

Like pebble into the pond

In her thoughts

She wish the freedom

to lay her soul

bare before him

They both come to life

in the stillness of an hour

In her thoughts

She desire to walk

for thousand miles

At the seawall of fortune's rock

where the sea licks

pink and silver sand

In her thoughts

She wish to lay together

Besides the waves of sea

on the soft rose sand

Wish to dance together

under the silvery lights

The most romantic place

In the cosmos of life

The real wealth,

enough for her

will remain throughout her life !!

She is like water | Dipti Shinde Salvi

She becomes what she is poured into

She wears the colour we mix it with

She becomes river when we allow her to flow

And she nourishes all embracing her

When flowing, she is transparent like crystal

The transparency showing colourful stones and soil lying at the bottom

Upon touching, she calms us

Upon diving deep into it, she excites and pacifies us equally and simultaneously

But she becomes puddle, if we hinder her flow

And she accumulates waste serving us nothing

Flowing is what she is

Giggling is vivacious to her

Dancing is what she loves

Nourishing is what she enjoys

And coexistence of excitement and peace is what she is

She is life, our very own existence...

Thunder were my thoughts | Sayantani Banerjee

The thunder rumbled, and scared you

Think if I told you the truth,

that it is what my inner thundering thoughts

Then it might have made you sad, which would in order break my heart.

Think if I told you the rain yesterday were my tears,

The tears of halt for another moment of life,

Until the moment we meet again.

It would have ceased on me, your eyes.

Think if I said that I didn't want you to leave,

That I didn't want the moment to end,

That the first rain with you was of resentment,

And not of joy.

I felt my half splitting off,

I felt the urge I felt before,

The urge of wanting to see you from near,

And now it's even more, for now I have truly loved you henceforth.

The wait will end soon in time,

But the longing in my heart will seem a decemvir

We will meet soon for sure,

But how will my heart store the absence of thy.

Think if you really could read my eyes,

Think if you really had the power to read mine,

Then long before you would have known,

That love for me arrived when I meet you anigh.

जननी | Vivek Gulati

जीवन मिला तुझसे, जीना सिखाया तूने

राह से जब भी भटके, लक्ष्य दिखाया तूने।

प्यार का सागर थी तू, भर भर लुटाया तूने

तेरी कमी हर समय आज भी खलती है

अंधकार में तेरे आशीर्वाद की लौ जलती है।

भगवान तो कभी दिखे नहीं हमें

तुझमें उसका स्वरूप दिखा हमें।

Sawdust | Apoorva A N Manohar

smear-laden in lifeless mud

slinging herself over the last bit of a ruthless saw

trrrrrrrm trrrrrrrrrrrm brrrrrrrm...clack

the machine, it screams so loud..

she flinches ahead as it cuts through

her gentle green eyes turn a dull grey

the long tresses caress her face

as she takes the fall

my heart sinks.

if you followed the twisting vines nigh the wound

you would see

the vines that came crashing through

meet the earth in its roots

it is where

she now plonks in blood now

..and in splattered mud

it is where life must happen in green I muse out loud

raising a brow she heaves a sigh

her gentle eyes concede silently

it won't be long, her parting glance says it..

standing aghast- clenching herself

thud!

a deathly silence deafens me

and a numb stupor rises and engulfs the sky

a dull fainting thump– thwack– it strikes again

the machine, it still screams so loud

trrrrrrrm… trrrrrrrrrrrm brrrrrrrm..rrrrrrrrrrrrrr….clack....

there’ are bits splattering on the earth

yet it roars on

the machine....

trrrrrrrm trrrrrrrrrrrm brrrrrrrm...clack

maybe it has reached the last root on earth

….a loud scream echoes, the machine falls mute

at last

the scream lingers still

hanging in air, heavy as lead

even as I see a lifeless void steep up into my heart

Five Reasons Why I Fear Learning To Carry A 'Bottle' Within Me | Suvedhaa R S

I don't know how to bottle it all up

To be honest, I dread it

Because, think about it,

What if I bottle up a lot, to a point where the bottle explodes

And its pieces pierce and tear all my organs, making them bleed, until everything that is red becomes purple and

Letting everyone see what they aren't supposed to see?

Or what if the more I put in the bottle, the more it continues to grow and expand,

In all dimensions,

Until the day it squishes my lungs, to an extent where it becomes suffocating that I die and no one would ever know the truth behind my death?

Or even worse, what if every single thing I put in the bottle vanishes because the bottle eats up everything?

If that's the case, then there wouldn't be any breaking point, where my brain tells me to stop

So, at some point, sooner or later, I will die

I will die without knowing anything about myself

The moment I finish contemplating these what-ifs,

I come to realize that my hands have already spilled everything, everywhere,

Out of fear,

Out of shiver

And I end up feeling like an 'idiot' because,

"Adults Aren't Supposed To Act This Way!"

And I am, supposedly, an 'ADULT'

An 'Adult'

Or an 'idiot', forever feeling anger burning inside her head

While also being aware of how this anger is- slowly but steadily- feeding on her brain.

She couldn't do anything to stop it,

Or her, from becoming a brainless idiot with no home to sleep in.

Life of Misery | Riya

From

Love & Laugh

To

Tears & Self-harms

How much have I changed?

The Roaring minds & the Silenced heart

Turned the Cherries on cakes,

To Cigarettes & Vapes

Pills & Drugs, Knives & Cuts

Blemishes & Scars, the Stains & Guilts

Oh how much I have really changed!!

Fears & Heartbreaks, Anxiety & Stress

Lonely nights & Scary long miles

How much has my life torn away?

Short of breaths & Shaking legs

The Unheard cries & the Fake smiles

Perfect lies & Buried alive, Blurry faces & Hollow inside

Withered flowers & wounded wrists,

Hating light & Escaping nights

From

Cheerful kids

To

Battling the evil minds

I appear so changed!!

Unending paths & Unescorted life

With a seemingly content face

And still sobbing in my grey pillow every night

I have changed!!

زن و زنجیر | Md Shahbaz Alam

کبھی سیتا تجھے جانا کبھی دیوی تجھکو

کبھی حوا ہے پکارا کبھی میری تجھکو

تجھے عورت تو یہاں پر کبھی مانا ہی نہیں

کبھی جنتو تجھے سمجھا کبھی دیوی تجھکو

تو ہے بازار کی زینت کبھی مردوں کی عنا

کہیں ماں بہنوں کی صورت میں ہے عزت کی بقا

تیری آواز کو ہر دم ہے دبایا سب نے

کہیں برقعیں میں مقید کہیں گھونگھٹ کی سزا

کبھی آواز جو ان سے تیری اعلی نکلی

ہو کہ زنجیر گلے کا تیرے ساماں نکلی

ہے انہیں خوف کے آگے نہ کہیں تو نکلے

تبھی ہر روپ میں تو مذہبی جاما نکلی

کبھی دلسوزی میں انکے تو غزل بن بیٹھی

تیرے ناموں سے سجائی گئی گالی ان کی

کبھی کوٹھے پہ رکھا تو کبھی محبوبہ

ان کے کھلوار کا سامان اصل تو ہی بنی

تجھے تاریخ کے پنوں سے بھی اوجھل رکھا

تجھے گھر بار کے کاموں میں ہی بوجھل رکھا

تیرا دنیا سے کبھی سامنا ہونے نہ دیا

تجھے بھلانے کو دل تیرا اس نے چھل رکھا

ہے گناہ گار یہاں بیٹھا ہر اک فرد تیرا

کبھی سمجھا ہی نہیں حال تھا جو زرد تیرا

جسے پیدا کیا ہر درد سحن کر تو نے

تجھے کمزور کہاں بھول گئے درد تیرا

تو اگر اب بھی میری جان یو خاموش رہی

ان بھرم پالنے والوں سے جو تھوڑا بھی ڈری

یہ تجھے اور دبائینگیں ، رلائینگیں تجھے

اب بھی گر جان میری اپنے حق کو تو نہ لڑی

اب انہیں یاد دلا حق ہے یہاں پر جو تیرا

یہ زمین تیری بھی ہے ، ہے یہ آسماں تیرا

یہ ہوا پانی سر سبز گل و شادابی

جتنا اس مردہ کا ہے ، ہے یہ وہ اتنا تیرا

गंतव्य | डॉ.आरती भारद्वाज

धार है कृपाण की

चलकर है तुमको जाना

अश्रु एक बहाए बिना

गंतव्य है तुमको पाना

रुकना नही थकना नही

तू पथिक राह अंजान का

लाज रख तू तेज की

और मां के अभिमान का

जब सांस तेरी तेज हो

आंख में जुनून हो

राह में हो अटकलें

और हृदय में सुकून हो

धरा है साथ चल रही

साथ चल रहा गगन

हौसला बुलंद रख चल

निर्भय सिंह हो मगन

मन | Nivedita Ojha

खिड़की के खुलते ही, हवा के शीतल झोंके की तरह तुम ;

हौले से, मेरे पास आकर बैठ जाते हो ,

मैं भावों की बारिश में भीगती

अगली- पिछली यादों के कितने मोती आँखों से दुल्कातीं हूँ ,

जब तुम सूखी पाती को खोल-खोल ,

सुमधुर गान सुनाते हो.

और कभी तुम सतरंगे इन्द्रधनुष से ,

मदमस्त मुझे खींच कर ,

खुली घाटियों में खेत खलिहानों में ,

दौड़ते....

कभी झरने नदियों से गुज़रते...

खूब दौड़ाते हो ;

और मैं, सुध-बुध खोई सी भागती चली जाती हूँ.

कभी तुम रूठे बच्चे से 'अनमने,

न जाने कहाँ भटकते फिरते हो सारा दिन....

और कभी मौन क्षणों में, निर्विकार से,

मेरे संग किसी शून्य में समां जाते हो,

जहाँ न तुम ,न मैं ,न कोई एहसास ही होता है ...

ऐ मन ! तुम कितने रंग दिखाते हो ?

The 21st Century | Bhakti Putty

Welcome to the 21st Century wherein humankind is not so kind.

Where kindness is synonymous with stupidity.

Where weeping signifies weakness.

Where being truthful is a crime.

Where money outpowers character.

Where education is a privilege.

Where criminals occupy offices.

Where laws are flexible.

Where libraries are deserted and books are a mere home decor piece.

Where colour decides beauty.

Where people die before their deaths.

Where living bodies transform into walking graves.

Where humans tear each other apart.

Where degree decides potential.

Where schools teach everything but wisdom.

Where forgiveness is an act of cowardice.

And most importantly, where humans fail to be humane.