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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Sep 26, 20212 min read
EnvironMental 'SNOW LEOPARDS'
The elegant snow leopard with their beautiful spotted fur is an endangered species with only around four thousand of them remaining. With...
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Lakshmi
Sep 22, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'DISSONANCE'
In poetry, dissonance, is a powerful and useful literary device, employed by poets, although dissonance disrupts the harmony of vowel...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Sep 19, 20211 min read
EnvironMental 'ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA'
This is a lament, this is a call to action, my dear-dear friends! I am inconsolable every time I task myself with apprising all of us of...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Sep 12, 20211 min read
EnvironMental 'LADYBIRDS'
This week let's take a look at a cute little red critter and the role it plays in our environment. These are soft bodied variously...
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Lakshmi
Sep 8, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ALLITERATION'
In literature, when the same initial consonant (in some cases even vowel) sounds are repeated in successive or closely placed syllables...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Sep 5, 20211 min read
EnvironMental 'FASHION: WEEK-IV'
Following a fashion event we've all familiar with how the audience walks away with plastic gift bags that contain various samples from...
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Megha S. Sunder
Aug 30, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'O. N. V. KURUP'
When reading or listening to his poems, one could easily wonder if there ever lived a poet who loved Mother Earth as fervently as this...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Aug 22, 20211 min read
EnvironMental 'FASHION: WEEK-III'
It feels good to finally walk down the street showing off a pair of limited edition sneakers or having a branded tote or backpack slung...
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Lakshmi
Aug 18, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'INTERNAL RHYME AND END RHYME'
What is the difference between internal rhyme and end rhyme? Internal rhyme and end rhyme are determined by the position of the rhyme...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Aug 15, 20212 min read
EnvironMental 'FASHION: WEEK-II'
As promised, I am back this week with the second edition on the disastrous impact of fashion on the planet. This is Week-II of a series...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Aug 8, 20212 min read
EnvironMental 'FASHION: WEEK-I'
Appearance, how much does it matter? The replies are going to be diverse, considering how different every individual is. Not all of us...
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Lakshmi
Aug 4, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'INTERNAL RHYME'
Internal rhyme, too, is an aural rhyme, where similar sounding words or syllables occur within the same line multiple times, such as in...
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Ahmad Towaiq
Jul 31, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'ABU AL TAYYEB AL MUTANABBI'
The tenth century poet Abu Al Tayyeb Al Mutanabbi is one of the greatest world poets, who wrote in Arabic. His poems are riddled with...
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Lakshmi
Jul 28, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'END RHYME'
This is the most common form of rhyme and also the most discernible type of rhyming pattern in a poem or verse. This is an aural rhyme,...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Jul 25, 20212 min read
EnvironMental 'SINKING'
I believe the following excerpts from some of the news organisations from the past few weeks will speak for itself : "....deadly floods...
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Megha S. Sunder
Jul 22, 20211 min read
On O's Stage 'THOPPIL BHASKARA PILLAI'
There was a time when theatre was central to the cultural dimension of the society in Kerala. The playwright Thoppil Bhaskara Pillai or...
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Lakshmi
Jul 21, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'EYE RHYME'
We associate rhyme with sound and it mainly is to do with the aural sense. However, an eye rhyme is an exception; it is a rhyme that...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Jul 19, 20212 min read
EnvironMental 'BLEED FREE'
Did you know that one sanitary pad takes about 500 to 800 years to decompose! Naturally, the environmental hazards that come with all...
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Lakshmi
Jul 14, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'RHYME'
Rhyme is not new to us. Nursery rhymes, the most popular types of rhymes, have a certain quality to them — perhaps why we retain them in...
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Arun Somasekharan
Jul 13, 20211 min read
Flash Fiction 'AN ODE TO OZ AND CHAOS THEORY'
Introduction Brevity is the soul of wit. A haiku, in my opinion, is the purest form of poetry. It encapsulates an idea in a few choice...
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