wandering around in the lowest valley....there seemed to be nothing there....suddenly my attention shifted to a man dressed in pure white. He beckoned me to join him at the top of the mountain; quickly I made the decision to accept his invitation...but there were two paths up the mountainside.

  

आदमियत से इन्सानियत की ओर बढऩे की चाह रखने वालों के लिए कविता, शायरी और गज़लों की अपनी अहमियत है। ये अल्फाजों में लिपटे कुछ ऐसे जज्बात हैं, जिन्हें किसी के दिल की जमीन पर रखकर पिरोया जाता है। यह भी सच है कि हर किसी में अल्फाजों को तरन्नुम में पिरोने का हुनर नहीं होता लेकिन बावजूद इसके जज्बातों की कदर करने वालों के लिए जरूरी है कि वे इन इबारतों की खूबसूरती से ज्यादा इनकी सच्चाई और सादगी को तव्वजो दें।

  

The night was dark, moonless and silent sans a few whispers or the sound of the dawdling footsteps of pedestrians or the crass shrieking of few vehicles. These noises made Vatsala uneasy. The day had been extremely demanding and laborious for her. She wanted to retire for the day and craved for a much desired sleep but the constant web of unearthly dreams had long before dodged her making her feel insomniac.

  

The river of Drear was known to exist between two kingdoms, before people were created it was a peaceful river…..but after the kingdoms went to war, it has been left as unknown as it was covered in mire.

  

Love is not an emotion, just as life and death are not emotions.  However, all three—love, life and death—invoke emotions, the widest range of human emotions, which are explored to their fullest by Mr. Prabhat Kumar Deo in his debut novel, EETI VS ANSH.  This is the story of two young college students who fall in love and soon discover that it is easier to excel in higher education than to plan a simple date for coffee.

  

Global Fusion Voices (read & keep) Jan. 2012  VOL.1  No.1

Nietzsche’s magnum opus Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None has been described as “the deepest ever written”. This book by the esoteric German philosopher opposes the Christian and Jewish morals, values and traditions. It is quite ironical that Nietzsche mimics the Bible style while revealing his concept of ‘overman’ or superman through the prophet Zarathustra. 

  

Tahera Mannan is a lovely gifted poet from India who has become a great peer on Poetry Soup... Her talents range in variety as she has been writing since she was eight . This talent is unique and superlatively creative as her ability to write poetry has a broad spectrum.  

  

Shamsud Ahmed, MBA (b. Assam, India) has been writing poems since age 12; published in numerous local journals and newspapers and many websites.

  

Haiku has emerged as one of the most popular poetic forms of the 20th & 21st centuries. The form, with its brevity and pinpoint illumination of the spiritual, appeals to a contemporary audience that yearns for meaning in a chaotic and rushed world. In some ways, haiku dovetails with some aspects of Post-Modernism, in its capacity to reveal telling moments and express spiritual loneliness.