From beneath the chandelier to underneath the stars, DHOL BAJE 2023-
24 by the Rotaract Club of MAHE was Manipal at its finest. The event
hosted at the Fortune Valley View on 10th November 2023, Manipal is an
annual signature festival of Rotaract MAHE, where they bring to the
celebrators … Continue Reading
Manipal मणिपाल /mʌnipa:l/
a student town so rich and vibrant in culture that it’s like living in a world of its own.
A town so small, yet so vast that it has everything a student would need to survive thrive.
It is not just a town though, it’s a feeling, an emotion, a … Continue Reading
The Beautiful Tragedy of Franz Kafka- Part II
The German-speaking Jewish writer Franz Kafka is a widely recognized figure of 20th-century literature.
One of the first of the modernist movement.
Franz Kafka, based in Prague, penned three major novels and a plethora of remarkable short stories in his abled stillness. The creative seclusion was one that … Continue Reading
The Beautiful Tragedy of Franz Kafka – Part I
Who was Franz?
Leading to and sensitized by the devastating manslaughter and political conundrum that marred human goodwill in World War 1 arose a deviation from formulaic concoctions of the safe and trend-affirming overtly poetic literature.
It brooded a change in self-reflection and a stream of consciousness which was translated … Continue Reading
Fireworks in my Soul: Day Twenty-one of NaPoWriMo
Sometimes, I hear explosions bold and bright,
Something screams with all its might.
It slows down at night and makes its bed at dawn,
But every day, it fights like there is nothing left to mourn.
The sound, so crass and full of violence,
It threatens to unravel the … Continue Reading
Simulated Realities: Day Eighteen of NaPoWriMo 2023
Our Universe, of atoms, accidental
Springs into sultry existence
Far from earthly fathoms
God’s guttural life sentence
Time; an unholy mother
Unborn, reborn, and neverborn
Deviant and defiant, we discover
Vicious thorns of forlorn scorn
War; a cold world in order
Shaping up stars, lives, and … Continue Reading
Colours of Love: Blue
Love for me will always be blue,
Tinged with sadness,
It’s a bittersweet hue.
Blue for the sky that Icarus fell through,
Trying to soar for freedom,
Too close to the Sun he flew.
Blue for the loss Daedalus felt,
When he beheld his boy,
Suffering the curse he was … Continue Reading
Colours of Love: Autumn
Weary of summers past and wary of the winter to come – Autumn is a gaunt, worn veteran, hunched over on public benches. He sits with pursed lips, silently mouthing the ending of every story that begins now. As the harsh, dry wind claws the leaves off the trees, the … Continue Reading
Colours of Love: Pink
You carved little hearts out of the cement,
and I laid down the foundation of the road.
We paved the path together, and now you repent
for creating with me, your house and my humble abode.
Our hearts, which were once whole, are now empty with agony,
I forwent … Continue Reading