In my childhood days, summer nights were spent under open star-lit sky. After completing my homework, I used to lie down on the cot laid down on the terrace and gazed at the stars and was fascinated by the forms the stars formed. In early days, I was ignorant of the constellations or asteroids […]
Learning is a continuous process and the day you stop learning, you cease to exist. It is not only the text books that comes to learning, we learn from each instances of life and the good motivates to move further and the worst gives us a chance to mend our ways and try again, so […]
As I was dusting my cupboard, I came across this snap of my school days and memories of yesteryear’s flashed before my eyes and was transported to the world of my school days, the golden period of life, now I feel so after facing so much of struggle to carve a niche in adolescence. When […]
While tripping on different sites, I came across Mismatched Costumes in vogue. I am not much interested in trending fashion, still the subject caught my attention and I was amazed to find that Yes Mismatched is in vogue….I sighed & brooded over. What actually is Vogue, it can be anything different n unique from the […]
Peace and war are very far Yet they entwine at par At one pace there can’t be both Leave war adopt peace take oath To make the world serene and humanity roar. © Ila Varma 29-07-2016 #PoetsForPeace Published in Praxis Magazine Online is pleased to present “Peace Poem, 2016″ Written for MINDANDLIFEMATTERS
Politics & Politicians uses the word “Impossible” as “I AM POSSIBLE” and the possibility of impossibility does not stand in their context, they know the correct usage 🙂 By Ila Varma #1linerWeds
In a bid to enhance her creativity She ambled on the wrong path Spoiling her originality. .© Ila Varma 06-06-2016
Being in the mid- forties, I have been lucky to see my great grandparents, my grandparents (both paternal & maternal side), my parents and now I am with my sons and a daughter-in-law. When I aggregate my experiences of all these years, I feel I am quite rich in experiences, the ups and downs, […]
The Book, “She Ekla Cholo Re” authored by Dr. Shayan Haq and Santhosh Avvannavar is a very short interesting novel that you can read in one go and it will hardly take half an hour to finish it off. The story spins around the life of Kusum, who does not fits into the conventional […]