by Fatma Al Sibani | Apr 19, 2021 | Fatma Al Sibani, Wordsmiths
The Pomegranate By Fatma SibaniShe was sitting on a ladder-back chair in the veranda, staring at the azure sky, clear but of a pigeon hovering around something in the ground. Nothing was disturbing the stretch of the horizon except for a fruitless pomegranate tree...
by Anil Wadhwa | Mar 24, 2021 | Anil Wadhwa, Wordsmiths
By announcing an end to the US support for offensive operations in Yemen, the Biden administration has signalled a shift in policy, which will be welcomed, but with guarded expectations. The US Congress has been notified that the US would lift the “terrorist”...
by Adarsh Madhavan | Dec 13, 2020 | Adarsh Madhavan, Wordsmiths
By Adarsh Madhavan Some of us are just pseudo animal (read dogs) lovers (read hypocrites). Like me, for instance.I love animals.And I like chicken.Curry. Roast. Fry. Biriyani. Shame on you!Yes, shame on me, but I am with this diet since decades....
by Fatma Al Sibani | Dec 7, 2020 | Fatma Al Sibani, Wordsmiths
By Fatma Al Sibani He was not a man of wealth. Neither did he have a lamentable life that would have finished him years earlier than the day he left home to the city souq, forever. The day when the front door was knocked in a rapid pace, leaving the five siblings and...
by Siegrun Samira Rengert | Dec 1, 2020 | Siegrun Samira Rengert, Wordsmiths
A few years ago I was gifted my first box of Omani pomegranates fresh from a farm near Nizwa. The fruits were as big as my children’s heads and super juicy and flavourful. I could not believe that such amazing produce was growing just a few hours away but never...
by Adarsh Madhavan | Nov 18, 2020 | Wordsmiths
By Adarsh madhavanSometimes he sits just outside the Pillayar Kovil. All hunched up and done, actually, a bag of bones in rags but with matted locks that Bob Marley fans would envy. He sits there only when he is totally dry and hasn’t had anything to eat at all. And...
by Adarsh Madhavan | Nov 8, 2020 | Wordsmiths
By Adarsh Madhavan Most of the Whatsapp groups to which I am involuntarily party to are dominated by the fervour over the US elections. Before the declaration, it was who will win, Biden or Trump or Trump or Biden and what have you. Maybe, by this time, a winner would...
by Priya Arunkumar | Nov 5, 2020 | Priya Arunkumar, Wordsmiths
By Priya Arunkumar“You are a feminist, aren’t you? He smirked. Et tu brute, I silently thought as I looked at my childhood pal, who used to bully me at every given opportunity. No, why do you say that, I queried. “Well, long back when you joined us in school, I knew...
by Siegrun Samira Rengert | Sep 16, 2020 | Wordsmiths
By Siegrun Samira Rengert After surviving this pandemic we learned that health is the most valuable possession of our times and no money in this world can give it back to us once it is lost. At Filfil & Loomi we baked breads, cooked wholesome foods, tested new...
by Sitara | Jun 14, 2020 | Wordsmiths
The cowboys and cowgirls of our era are no longer riding horses in the dust, where the long arm of the law doesn’t reach. They’re undertaking the ego trips of entire nations, riding spaceships, leaving a massive trail of debris in a galaxy untouched by humans not so...
by Adarsh Madhavan | Jun 14, 2020 | Wordsmiths
Many say they have never experienced magic in real life. We beg to differ. Haven’t they seen people disappear into thin air? No? Tell your party friends; your weekend buddies; your just phone-call-away friend or a close person that you are in big trouble – you need...
by Bikram Vohra | Jun 13, 2020 | Bikram Vohra, Wordsmiths
On a visit to Delhi very recently I happened upon a small ad with a blurred photograph of three children aged 6,8 and 10. The legend on the top said Missing. The three small children reportedly left their home that Monday evening at 7 pm and had not been seen then....
