Remembering Shahryar (1936-2012)   By Mohammad Sajjad  To pen down in memory of somebody so dear to me is too difficult a task. I am choked with emotions too deeply, even though we knew it for the last so many months that the cruel hands of the greatest truth called DEATH is going to snatch him away from us. Munhasar marney pe ho jis ki ummeed    Naa ummeedi us ki dekha chahiye (Ghalib) My friend, Syed Ekram Rizwi, devastated with the news of Shahryar’s death, called me saying, ‘only dust is left in Aligarh now’ hadd-e-nigaah tak yahan ghubaar hi ghubaar hai While joining the namaaz-e-janazah at... 

दो कवितायेँ वरुण पासवान         पटना में गंगा पड़ी हुई है एक किनारे पर होगी कोई नदी कोई विस्तार पानी का अपनी बैठक का कोई झोलदार कोना महज जहाँ भटक के ना पहुंचा कोई मेहमान ना ही टिका कोई मेज़बान दूरियां पार करने को एक पुल है उसके नीचे... 

Coffee and Cigarettes A short story By Alekhya T Kilambi  Note: inspired by the film ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’ [2003]   A man and a woman walk into a restaurant. It’s an outdoor café, with umbrellas casting a shade on each little table. She walks to a table and sits down, just as he is about to pull out the chair for her. His hands fall limply to his sides as she beats him to it. He lamely goes and sits across from her. He has a sheepish look on his face, which he tries to disguise as a casual smile. “Why are you smiling like that?” she asks as she removes a pack of cigarettes... 

7 poems by Tomas Tranströmer: 2011 Nobel Prize winner   THE COUPLE They turn the light off, and its white globe glows an instant and then dissolves, like a tablet in a glass of darkness. Then a rising. The hotel walls shoot up into heaven’s darkness. Their movements have grown softer, and they sleep, but their most secret thoughts begin to meet like two colors that meet and run together on the wet paper in a schoolboy’s painting. It is dark and silent. The city however has come nearer tonight. With its windows turned off. Houses have come. They stand packed and waiting very near, a... 

दो कविताएं बिपिन पांडे बिपिन पांडे हम मनचले हम मनचले, सिर्फ मन की सुनते हैं, और मन की हीं करते हैं. वहीँ चले जाते, जहाँ मन ले जाए. वही अपना ठिकाना, जहाँ मन ठहर जाए. गीत वही गाते, जो मन गुनगुनाये. रित वही अपनी, जो मन को भा जाये. हमे नहीं आता... 

तीन कविताएं बिपिन पांडे -बिपिन पांडे चाँद की ख़ामोशी चाँद खामोश क्यूँ है इतना, क्या वो सागर की लहरों में खो गया है ? काश! कोई बदल आ जाता, दोनों के बीच में, और मुझे मेरे चाँद की आवाज़ मिल जाती |बादल भी क्या आया,आते ही बरस गया, वो भी चाँद के... 

यशेन्द्र जी के सौजन्य से तुलसी - योगेन्द्र प्रसाद ‘योगी’ [  योगेन्द्र प्रसाद 'योगी' के काव्य-संकलन 'प्रेम-पयाम' ( राजकमल प्रकाशन, 1978, © कवि परिवार) से उद्धृत.  गोपालगंज, बिहार, के निवासी इस कवि ने इस कविता की  रचना वर्ष 1938 में की थी. गोपालगंज एवं... 

State funeral for Acharya Janaki Vallabh Shastri Patna: Janaki vallabh Shastri the veteran Uttar Chhayavadi poet passed away at the ripe age of 96 after protracted illness. According to the latest reports, the Bihar government has announced that it accord a state funeral to the universally respected Hindi poet. Acharya Ji passed away at his residence in Muzaffarpur town of Bihar. ‘Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has decided to accord state funeral to Shastri,’ an official spokesman said. Shastri died after protracted illness at his residence in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur town, about 85 km... 

I AM…. By Rimly Bezbarua I am their Fantasy That fires their desires Their hidden longings They weave their dreams Around me But fail to make Me real. I am the “What if” Ponderings of their life That could have been But lacking the conviction, The courage to Give it a shape. I am the Cauldron Storing their panacea For heartaches Handing out magical potions That makes them whole Coming back always for more Leaving me empty. I am their Muse Inspiring them to Break into poetry Celebrating their life While all I have Are sad and broken verses. I am their Secret Their... 

एक गांव पर संकट है सारे गांव इकट्ठा हों कवि एक राष्ट्रीय चैनल में मीडियाकर्मी है, और अनामदास के नाम से लिखते है. एक गांव पर संकट है !!! पानी डूबा फाईल में – गाड़ी में – मोबाईल में सारे वादे डूब गए – खून स‌ने मसाइल में सारे गांव इकट्ठा...