Lockdown Diaries Competition

Reading Time: 3 minutes         I think many would agree with me when I say that lately, each day has lasted a year, but each month seems to have lasted a week. The strange inexplicable feeling of time having flown by in a hurry, but also slowing down at the same time, has been experienced by…

Reading Time: 3 minutes         An ear-piercing sound broke the little sleep, I had gotten. Groggily, I sat up and made my way to the washroom. After quick shower, I jumped into yesterday’s jeans and was out of the door. The day had begun. I was at the speed of 50km/hour, hands full of multiple tasks…

Reading Time: 4 minutes         Putting an end to my invocation queuing in succession are the eerie hours of quivering night into the boughs of which I perch in search of aesthetic beauty of dissimilar genre. Unless awaken by morning dream or once in a blue moon rooster crowing, it’s the midnight set alarm intrudes my…

Reading Time: 3 minutes         The pandemic has started so abruptly, by just a blink of an eye, the world has been reshuffled, a whole new game staring over again. As the pandemic sleeks beyond us — throughout the globe, cities are being locked down, confining everyone in their homes. Four months of lockdown, a hundred…

Reading Time: 3 minutes         It is often too hard to believe how our lives can be changed in the split of a second. The pandemic has been one such change in everybody’s lives and I think we would unanimously agree that this change hasn’t brought any good. My emotions have risen and fallen like the…

Reading Time: 2 minutes           Death is an intriguing affair, No one knows what it bears. We all roam carrying a facade, Of rich and poor running roughshod. Now I ponder staring at the star, What will cease this self-created war. Whom to blame or be flawed? This is something hoisted by one’s own petard….

Reading Time: 2 minutes         “I can’t wait to get out of school,” we all exclaimed. Little did we know how we were going to crave to go back there. To spend another day complaining about our teachers. To spend another lunch break attacking each other’s lunch boxes. To spend another period bunking just to talk…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Terrifying, isn’t it? The thought that a moment is merely fleeting. The idea that this is all it ever will be. A moment. An improvised fragment of spoken word that cannot be recalled from the depths of a memory. Why must I be burdened by having no souvenir other than a husk of enchantment that…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Last month, the country had witnessed a suicide of a young promising actor, Sushant Singh Rajput. The entire nation is still not able to wrap their head around this incident. And there is something I found out revolving around this incidence, and I believe that we need to rethink some things. We are living in…