Category: Arts

Thursday Poem: ‘Metropolis With Ghazal’ by Siddharth Dasgupta

Come walk with me through the bones of this bustling city.Time hedges its bets in…

A London Jeweler Turns to Home Goods Made With Precious Metals

by Jo Rodgers at New York Times: Walk down a side street in London’s diamond…

Wednesday Poem: It’s the Little Things

It’s the Little Thingsthe sparrow’s tender headthe dead possum on the roadthe pungent smell of…

Tuesday Poem: A Family Matter

Of course, when my mother askedthat I give my wife a kiss for her, I…

Sunday Poem: Hundred Flowers Blossom

I went to the woodsbirds talked with musictheir marriagesand a tree laceratedits trunk, offered me…

Frida Kahlo’s Painting ‘The Wounded Table’ Vanished in 1955. The Hunt For it Continues.

by Paulina Olszanka at Air Mail: During her divorce from the artist Diego Rivera, Frida…

Thoughts On The Advice Pandemic

by Tom Cox at The Villager: In my experience, it is the people who seem…

Saturday Poem: ‘Why I Write’ by Akshay

These words are for me,For I’m the one who’s hurting,I’m just healing myself. I often…

Friday Poem: ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ by Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so…

Thursday Poem: The World is a Beautiful Place

The world is a beautiful placeto be born intoif you don’t mind happinessnot always beingso…

Wednesday Poem: Eve’s Protest

Men insist I shouldn’t use my body to conquerthem when men have been using meto…

Tuesday Poem: On a Squirrel Crossing the Road in Autumn

It is what he does not know,Crossing the road under the elm trees,About the mechanism…