Manisha Mishra

My crescent-shaped lover Appeared breath-taking Playing hide and seek With my senses and my mind The date was promising. Following me everywhere I could not decide If he looked…

When the Mehendi grew dark In the wee hours of the morning She woke up to the smell of it And began to imagine How he would lose his senses By the intoxicating aroma. Months of…

If only the night was morning And the morning was night Would silence exchange Its exasperating breath With the constant din? Would the clock ticking away Wait for everyone To…

Glowworms flash In the remote spider webs Gathering an unknown emotion Waiting to be acknowledged. Quivering across the lanes They rush to the road Full of upheavals Rain…

Ernest Hemingway, while sending his manuscript of ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ to his Editor Wallace Meyer, wrote a note: "I know that it is the best I can write ever for all of my life, I…

A whiff of monsoon, greenery everywhere, the aroma of wet mud in Odisha and the womenfolk here are eager to celebrate the festival of Raja that is round the corner. Raja, basically a rural…

The second wave of COVID-19 pandemic is creating waves of despair all over India. Amid ripples of gloom in Odisha and at a point in time when everyone is talking about social distancing,…

Often considered as a ‘Victorian realist’, Thomas Hardy is one of the most influential writers of the Victorian Age. Hardy had unconventional perspectives about subjects like religion,…

Born on May 13, 1916, prolific writer Sachidananda Rautray, popularly known as Sachi Rautray, came to the limelight mostly after the publication of his long poem ‘Baji Rout’. His poem ‘Chota…

Actress Gilda Susan Radner calls motherhood “an act of infinite optimism”. On this International Mother’s Day, Radner’s saying conjures up in my mind the figure of an ‘exceptionally brave’…