Sunday Poem: My Crescent-Shaped Lover by Manisha Mishra December 18, 2022 0 My crescent-shaped lover Appeared breath-taking Playing hide and seek With my senses and my mind The date was promising. Following... Read moreDetails
Sunday Poem: Waiting For The Groom by Manisha Mishra August 28, 2022 0 When the Mehendi grew dark In the wee hours of the morning She woke up to the smell of it... Read moreDetails
Sunday Poem: Morning Is Night by Manisha Mishra July 25, 2022 0 If only the night was morning And the morning was night Would silence exchange Its exasperating breath With the constant... Read moreDetails
Sunday Poem: Glowworm by Manisha Mishra December 19, 2021 0 Glowworms flash In the remote spider webs Gathering an unknown emotion Waiting to be acknowledged. Quivering across the lanes They... Read moreDetails
Characters & Colours: Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man Santiago And COVID-19 by Manisha Mishra July 21, 2021 0 Ernest Hemingway, while sending his manuscript of ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ to his Editor Wallace Meyer, wrote a... Read moreDetails
Characters & Colours: Laxmikanta Mahapatra’s Old Bangle Seller Resonates Tagore’s Kabuliwala by Manisha Mishra June 13, 2021 1 A whiff of monsoon, greenery everywhere, the aroma of wet mud in Odisha and the womenfolk here are eager to... Read moreDetails
Characters & Colours: Bijaya Prasad Mahapatra’s Old Granny And Her Death Wish by Manisha Mishra June 6, 2021 0 The second wave of COVID-19 pandemic is creating waves of despair all over India. Amid ripples of gloom in Odisha... Read moreDetails
Characters & Colours: Thomas Hardy’s Joana Exemplifies ‘Character Is Destiny’ by Manisha Mishra May 30, 2021 0 Often considered as a ‘Victorian realist’, Thomas Hardy is one of the most influential writers of the Victorian Age. Hardy... Read moreDetails
Characters & Colours: Sachi Rautray’s Witness Jintan Sahu & Theory Of Karma by Manisha Mishra May 16, 2021 0 Born on May 13, 1916, prolific writer Sachidananda Rautray, popularly known as Sachi Rautray, came to the limelight mostly after... Read moreDetails
Characters & Colours: Betty Mahmoody, Remembering A Mother With Indomitable Courage by Manisha Mishra May 9, 2021 0 Actress Gilda Susan Radner calls motherhood “an act of infinite optimism”. On this International Mother’s Day, Radner’s saying conjures up... Read moreDetails