These days, it’s not hard to imagine the end the world. Wars, pandemic, floods, famine and earthquakes dominate the news cycle, breaking your heart over and over again. It’s easy, in the midst of this collective misery, to lose hope and abandon the world. However, it’s the smallest of things – a tree, a cloud,Continue reading “Poetry Corner: Volume 10”
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Introducing the Shop
Hi there! This has been in the works for ages. We are starting with a couple of notebooks in what we call ‘The Hope Series.’ The artwork is based on poetry that we love and keep going back to. As you flip the pages while jotting down your notes and impressions, we hope these versesContinue reading “Introducing the Shop”
Poetry Corner: Volume 6
What kind of times are these? Families aren’t even given dead bodies to grieve. Activists, journalists and NGOs are under the scanner, if not behind bars already. Somewhere, women don’t have abortion rights. Elsewhere, they don’t have a right to education. In most places, they don’t have the right to their own bodies, their studies,Continue reading “Poetry Corner: Volume 6”
Poetry Corner: Volume 4
Living in a country that’s lost its soul and gone rabid takes its toll. The dreams are distorted, bulldozed and buried under a pile. Still, most days you want to live, forget the reality and feign ignorance. Live in the hope that the songs will come back, the flowers bloom and you will be ableContinue reading “Poetry Corner: Volume 4”
Poetry Corner: Volume 2
The world is hurting – there are wars afoot, we are still reeling from the pandemic, there is an alarming rise in fascism, fake news, poverty, hunger and ignorance. It’s time we recognise that it’s important to take a stand for human rights above everything else, for one can’t remain insulated from the divisive forcesContinue reading “Poetry Corner: Volume 2”