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Some of the content in this issue may be potentially triggering for certain audiences. Please proceed with caution and as per your capacity. Moreover, we recommend contacting a clinical professional if you find yourself deeply relating to some of the more serious works or generally in a poor mental condition. Please consider contacting any of the lines provided below if you are unable to find a specific professional. If you’re from a different country, we recommend dialling your respective mental health and related helplines as soon as possible.
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I Am – Yashasvini Verma
Trigger Warning/Content Warning: Mention of death/loss, and content entailing the current pandemic and general despair. Proceeding with due discretion is advised. For the most part, I am numb. Used to hearing the worser parts of it all. Expecting bad news…
Uncertainty – Ishani Singh
All acquired one moment Slipping out the next Promises once made so strong Not meant to thrive for long Mind traipsing in chaos Never braced for a face-off With the unknown that lies ahead With the rectos and versos…
Twilight Hours – Vrinda Rastogi
Trigger Warning: Mention of death/loss. Proceeding with due discretion is advised. 1// I Don’t Know What To Do Now That I Have Lost You Can you hear me? I’ve been trying to speak to you Touch you Feel you Breathe…
Sal(vation) – Tanvi Jain
Content Warning: The following piece contains content entailing general despair. Proceeding with due discretion is advised. The tears They won’t come I feel my heart Weeping But my vision, not Blurred with brine The tears They came I feel…
The April Rain – Adya Chauhan
Trigger Warning: Mention of death/loss. Proceeding with due discretion is advised. The sky is raining; how lovely and lonely. It’s drenching the leaves, the trees, the buildings, birds, people, feelings. We’re one month on, in the middle of May.…
Teenage Limbo – Aayushi Bawa
You are never more alive than when you are a teenager. Your brain is flushed with chemicals that can turn your life into a story of epic proportions. A good grade feels like a Pulitzer’s Prize. A lonely Saturday night…
A Village Life – Sruti Das
I am tired of being competitive I want to leave this city life. Oh! The hustle and bustle here It is so peaceful there. I am talking about a place Far away from the city face. It’s a small…
Monachopsis – Shreyas Dhar
I think of the life I’ve seen Over the past 17 years I didn’t always feel so blessed I didn’t always conquer my fears What can a boy of 17 do? Not much I suppose, For I’ve just learnt…
Broken Glass – Sara Maheshwari
Content Warning: The content in the following piece entails the current pandemic and general despair. Proceeding with due discretion is advised. In an Italian premium restaurant, the head chef came out for a round. As people bowed and smiled looking…
Trying to Try – Samiksha Dubey
Trigger Warning/Content Warning: Mention of death/loss, and content entailing the current pandemic and general despair. Proceeding with due discretion is advised. Here we are again, Back to chugging dalgona coffees And baking banana bread, Served with a side of dread.…
Who Am I? That’s a Secret! – Elisha Khaneja
Everybody thought she was delighted, Her life was the mixture of a unique shade; But I knew, the tint diminished, And it was turning to fade. Her eyes could indicate the misery, That she had been hiding From the…
For Those We Lost – Saara Mathur
Trigger Warning/Content Warning: Mention of death/loss, and content entailing the current pandemic and general despair. Proceeding with due discretion is advised. In a state of crisis, You left us all alone, But I hope you’re happy now, To be on…
The End of Humanity – Ananya Mishra
Content Warning: Please proceed with due discretion if you are sensitive to content that entails the current pandemic and/or general despair. It is ludicrous when someone says the end of humanity is near; answer me then — what ceased when…
A Whirlwind of Emotions – Shweta Bahal
Content Warning: Please proceed with due discretion if you are sensitive to content that entails the current pandemic and/or general despair. Deeper Deeper Deeper I drown, in the pool of my own darkness, of my own creation The abyss beneath it,…
Revenge – Samiksha Dubey
Chalky, monotonous white walls, The professor talking on and on. The dim lights flicker out in the hall, Waiting for the bell to ring so I can be gone. But then certain dampness engulfs the room, The sky becomes…