Tenebris – Jasmann Singh Narang
“It’s beautiful,” he told himself. With nothing but hope in his heart, John finally swayed into the surreal, cosmic place he had always dreamt about. His heartbeat was so elevated at the sight of it that he wasn’t even afraid of the…
Escape – Sanjali Sharma and S. Mysha Urooj
I wish for an escape so eerie I hope it never breaks my reverie I wish I would view the things that I’ve never seen Be lost and yet be found in my own memories. My soul lies unrest…
The Tree of Life – Mohini Soni
I am alone, Crying in the dark, Where no one, No one leaves a mark. At the tip of the cone, Chilled to the bone, Thinking someone might arrive, Rescue me as I strive. As I walked on the timber,…
Zombie Culture – Ishani Singh
Welcome to zombie culture! No, it does not refer to a culture where people cosplay with fake blood or have fangs in place of their canine teeth. It refers to the modern-day world. The present; where people exhibit thoughtlessness, unfocused…
The Boy who 𝖫̷𝗂̷𝗏̷𝖾̷𝖽̷ Helped – Mira Sehgal
Sirius Black is trying to fly away with Buckbeak to escape the dementors. What happens next is quite ironical… As Black rose higher and higher into the air, sitting on the magnificent flying creature, with its gloriously large wings…
S.O.N.A.T.A (Part-2) – Surrealist Music
“[Surrealist music is] the combination of historically devalued musical fragments by means of such editing that allows them to give meaning to them within the framework of a new aesthetic unity” – Theodore Adorno Surrealist music is a fairly…
Lucifer, A Continuation – Vaasvi Sethia
This story is a continuation of the show “Lucifer”, from where it left off season 5. Beware of potential spoilers. “It is quite suffocating here.” Being in a storage room with my kidnapper’s identical twin wasn’t something I was…
Black Magic: a Myth or a Reality? – Archisha Pahuja
Being a part of a country like India, we’ve often stumbled upon the term black magic. It has been a part of ancient stories like the Ramayana. In fact, the Mayong village of Assam is still referred to as the…
From the Editor’s PC – Yashasvini Verma
Some parts of the write-up below are fiction, and others are not. You can decide. Saturday, 1:22 a.m. Busy days. Tiring minutes. I could hear a clock ticking ever so softly. I was falling asleep over the keyboard. “I should…
Crime Fiction | Paint the Town Read – Bhavya Nayak
About the Series “I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book” – J.K. Rowling Here’s what I believe; every person has that one book which sings to the rhythm of their soul and speaks…
Why Do We Fear the Unknown? – Adya Chauhan
‘One fear to rule them all, one fear to find them, one fear to bring them all and in the black box bind them.’ This statement from Tolkien’s text (1954) This statement from Tolkien’s text (1954) establishes a good foothold…
Through the Looking Glass – Aarushi Das
“Through the Looking Glass” contains two parts. The picture actually painted is in negative. So, when you put a negative filter on it, it looks how it would look in reality.
The picture to the left is painted, and the one to the right has the negative filter on.
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The Curious Case of ̷B̷e̷n̷j̷a̷m̷i̷n̷ ̷B̷u̷t̷t̷o̷n̷ the Bermuda Triangle – S. Mysha Urooj
October 11, 1492: Christopher Columbus and his crew see a candle-like light which rises and lifts up. 1918: A Navy cargo ship with 300 men and 10000 ton of manganese disappeared between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay without sending a…
A Glance at the Timeline of our Universe – Siddhant Shrivastava
Where do we come from, where do we go? The contents of this small article deal with the nature of our universe, and where it’s heading. As odd as it might sound, this theory was popularized by a mobster…
Every Picture Tells A Story – Isha Singh
The mystery the eyes of the main subject behold is beyond intriguing. The shop towards the outside is vivid and colourful, but holds a dark shadow within. It makes us question, what does it hide? What is there inside to discover?
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Each Day Is A Blank Canvas – Ishani Singh
“Nothing’s for sure, that’s for sure” One day, as I sat at my study table jotting down the things I had to do for the day, it occurred to me that the idea of uncertainty in life has always made…
Just Another Road Not Taken – Mira Sehgal
June 28, 1914; the yellow streets of Sarajevo; a nationalist ethos; and one wrong turn. This was all that was needed to start the first world war— one of the most disastrous and vicious wars ever to be fought on the planet;…
Under the Microscope | Dil Bechara – Anandi Ganguly
Seri? “Gaana adhura kyun tha? Kyunki life hi adhuri hai.” You rarely come across a film in which it becomes impossible to separate the art from the artist. On the 24th of July, the entire nation braced itself to witness…
Mystics of the Desert – Ananya Tandon
From the very beginning of our childhood, we have heard about the Arabian Nights. After reading all the desert stories from the very famous Aladdin, a question arises about the mysteries of the mystic desert .
The illusions, the mysterious experiences all feed to the rumour that the desert is magical. Imagine a dark night, when you are alone and a sudden aurora streaks across the sky. Just like this one, many stories come by and blow our minds– from meteors exploding in the sky to illusions– all coming to a stop at the question, “is a desert really enchanted? ”
Most theories suggest that these are really rare experiences which occur once in a blue moon. Other religious theories believe that there are true and sacred spirits which cause these mysteries .
A mystery still unsolved… What is your take on this? Is it really true or just a conspiracy?
Love Forbidden – Aliyah Banerjee
“We’re neither black nor white, but gray. I can only feel the touch of your hand in mine. Beneath my feet, the ground slips away.” My hair is long, so is yours, You are feminine, so am I. And…
Feeling Fearless – Riya Jain
Fearless is an imaginary term. One can pretend not to have fear but it dwells in everyone’s mind. Some fear death, others fear the outcomes of their decisions, but everyone fears the uncertainty of the future. We have all come…
Conquering the Unfamiliar – Aayushi Bawa
One afternoon I said to myself, “Why isn’t fate more sure?” Never forget the fluky and insecure fate. The horizon is not bright! The horizon is exceptionally dumb. Never forget the bleak and dumb horizon. A posterity, however…
The Big Bang: Time and Entropy – Rishit Verma
The basic laws of the Physics, things like F = ma, gravity is inversely proportional to the distance squared, Schrodinger’s equation, and so on, don’t say anything about ‘The Direction of Time’. Surely they relate what’s going on now to…
Mixed Bag – Kavya Loona
In Praise of Flaw Was that mistake meant to be? A blessing in disguise is all I could see A lesson learnt is better Than the miracle you wanted to see A little positive is all you’ll have to be…
The Nexus of Coping with Actuality – Arshia Khanna
“Aberration stamps reality; Regularity births distorted self.” Today the movie ‘Contagion’ as directed by Steven Soderbergh in 2011, no longer wrecks my spine! One of the realms which stay veiled is the apparatus of normalcy— or rather, lucidity. Vulnerability is…
The Last Good Place On Earth – Meher Narula
Eli kept her face passive as she felt the cool material of the smooth polymer gloves and biohazard suit slide over her body, and then a high definition EQ-12 helmet, a standard, adjusted on her head. Nothing new. Just her…
Questions Unanswered – Ananya Yadav
How does one begin to write about something one knows nothing about? The more one tries to delve deep into the realms of the unknown, the more ignorant one gets. What happens to the soul after death? For how many…
Interview | On The Frontlines — Mrs. Yogita Dixit
Pictured: Mrs. Yogita Dixit (centre) and her team Tanvi Jain of Delhi Public School, Noida, interviews Mrs. Yogita Dixit, a Technical Officer at the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences, about the coronavirus outbreak to gain an insight on…
Please Help Master – Ananya Pareek and Sanjali Sharma
It was a pleasure to go outside. It was a reunion; though we have stayed together for over two years now, but to go outside was heaven. But inside, it sure as hell wasn’t. I slept, which I don’t understand…
Getaway – Tarsuha Singh
Tell me the dark doesn’t frighten you and I’ll call you out as a falsifier instantly. You’re saying that the image of what seems like an incessant corridor extending into an oblivious dark shadow doesn’t make you quiver? It terrifies…
Chasing the Northern Lights – Bhavya Nayak
I’m sorry, Noah, it reads on the back of the faded postcard he holds. It’s not safe here. Go home. I’ll catch you later. There’s no signature, not that Noah needs one. Not when he can find that familiar lopsided…
The Quandary of the Mandela Effect – Stuti
In a place like our Universe, there exist hundreds of thousands of unsolved and unusual phenomenons. One of my recent fixations has been the Mandela Effect. The first question that arises: What is the Mandela Effect? According to The Reader’s…