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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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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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Lakshmi
Jul 10, 20212 min read
On O's Stage 'EFUA SUTHERLAND'
Efua Sutherland did not just begin writing after inspiring ideas and thoughts nudged her mind or after scribbling about. It was...
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Lakshmi
Jul 7, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'QUANTITATIVE METER'
Although the metrical system in English poetry is predominantly qualitative, quantitative meter, too, has been attempted in English...
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Arun Somasekharan
Jul 5, 20214 min read
Speculative Fiction 'DANGER ON DERMA'
Introduction The aim was to write something termed as micro-science fiction prototype or Micro-SFP. Micro-SFPs are complete stories in...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Jul 5, 20211 min read
EnvironMental 'Heatwave'
This drawing is based on the heatwave that struck Canada and North America this past week. The heatwave's intensity can be gathered from...
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Arun Somasekharan
Jun 28, 20218 min read
Speculative Fiction 'THE DOOR'
Introduction I’ve been a science fiction fan since forever, growing up on the likes of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Larry Niven, Jerry...
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Lakshmi
Jun 23, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ANAPEST'
Anapest is antidactylus because it is the reverse of dactyl. What is dactyl? Refer to O's earlier commentary on dactyl, or let us simply...
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Arun Somasekharan
Jun 22, 20214 min read
Speculative Fiction 'A MELANCHOLY IN QUANTUM FOAM'
PART II “Yes, that is correct indeed,” she nodded slowly in agreement. She had not thought of it that way. This was what made discussions...
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Arun Somasekharan
Jun 15, 202110 min read
Speculative Fiction 'A MELANCHOLY IN QUANTUM FOAM'
Introduction This story was developed in two days around a small paragraph I had written quite a while back. And that was: "What would...
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Lakshmi
Jun 9, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'PYRRHUS'
Like an iamb, a trochee, and a spondee, a pyrrhus, too, is a type of foot in a metrical feet. While a spondee is a pair of stressed...
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Arun Somasekharan
Jun 7, 20214 min read
Flash Fiction 'A TRYST WITH CAFFEINE'
Introduction The origin of this short fiction began as an exercise using writing prompts. I listen to lectures by Brandon Sanderson and...
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Arun Somashekharan
Jun 1, 20212 min read
Speculative Fiction 'JACK AND JILL: An Existential Problem'
PART IV The box itself was made of dark wood with dimensions of 36x36x36 cm. She looked inside. It had some dense machinery along the...
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Lakshmi
May 20, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'LEIGH HUNT'
The glad demeanour and mischievous tones in Hunt's most shared and well known poems must come from the cheerful, sensitive and perceptive...
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Megha S. Sunder
May 20, 20212 min read
On O's Stage 'CHIKAMATSU MONZAEMON'
The acute attention to detail that the Japanese culture lends to every aspect of their life is unmistakable. One such aspect is Bunraku,...
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Lakshmi
Apr 20, 20211 min read
On O's Stage 'SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ'
At, O, we kickstart this section by celebrating and applauding this seventeenth century Spanish writer, ahead of all our other great...
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