The Blahcksheep
In this piece ‘Playing Wordle With My Friend ‘ the author writes about her fun experience of playing Wordle with her friend Rasna Baruah. Have you played Wordle yet? Do you relate with this piece? What was your experience like? Tell us about it at theblahcksheep@gmail.com Sometime around mid-January this year, a good friend of …
#Poetry Cultivated by English the isles, they soughtO Albion your sea-encircled coast.What an interpreter of the maps visualisesTo the feet, hands never known Till like the Normans on your fair sand trod and tastedGeoffrey’s rhapsodical recipes of the national tongue.At Lakeland, lithosphere’s rainbow, poets met their museAnd your vast, icy cliffs guard Dover’s moon-blanched coast. …
When we think we’re multitasking we’re actually multi switching. That is what the brain is very good at doing – quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think we’re being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But in reality we’re simply giving ourselves extra work.” Michael Harris We are living in …
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Mirrors lie every time; I do not look into mirrors for weeks or months at a stretch. If your authenticity is an “abnormality”, then is it not your biggest achievement over the years? Who are you? Only you are the only one who truly knows that. You are never the illusion your mirror tries to …
Director: Jaydeep Sarkar; Screenwriters: Aparnaa Chaturvedi, Ankur Khanna; Genre: Drama; Year of Release: 2015 Do you remember the last time you watched a film that depicted a realistic female companionship? One in which the female characters were not merely playing sidekicks to the male protagonist, but had their own flaws and desires, motives and ambitions? …
#LoveMonth He saw her this morning, after almost a year, while crossing a street. Seeing her flooded him with feelings of longing and desire. There was a surprising look in her soft brown eyes when they met his, and she gave him a melancholic smile. He ran that scene over and over in his mind …
#LoveMonth Notes on love and relationships, friends and their experiences, films and writing and maybe climate change … It was in 2006 that Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” introduced some of my classmates to the urgency of climate change and how our generation needed to be on a war footing and work to be able to …
#LoveMonth हाँ तोह बताइए, प्यार क्या है, वो कहाँ है? क्या वो किताबों में है या फिर गुलाबों में आसमान के चाँद सितारों में या ज़मीन के खेत खलियानों में है? तो जनाब आपको बतला दें – वो ना चाँद सितारों में है ना ही ग़ालिब और बशीर बद्र की क़िताबों में।। वो शायद उस आचार …
#LoveMonth Every time I start writing something, I wonder if I should. “What is the point of it?” my inner self asks. Maybe there is no inner self. But that’s for another day. The first instance of love you encountered was in kindergarten when you had a crush on the guy who was rubbing his …
#LoveMonth Blurb: This piece ‘Maa (or Mother) Taught Me’ is very close to my heart. It talks about the little ways in which my mother coped with my father’s death and the lessons I learnt from my their heart-wrenching love story. for every time my fatherwould be away on business tripsmy mother would take up …