Pritiranjan Swain

Biggies are being nabbed one after the other after women are opening up about their experiences of rapes, molestations and assaults. However, away from spotlight, a common girl is still facing sexual harassment just like before. On 1st October, a school on Haryana's Gurgaon had conducted an unit test. One 15 YO girl student wrote how her 23 YO uncle...

We have fought our battles. We have been through the worst and still have risen up, again. That's enough to prove that all of us are 'fighters', some of us might be 'winners', but none of us is a 'loser'. Life has shown each one of us a face that it has never shown anyone before. We have faced...

There are hearts who had loved truly but were crushed. There are hearts whose each beat was loyal but were betrayed. There are hearts that were played with despite being the strongest claimants of love. Those hearts are no more the same. They've grown stronger, kinder, wiser and probably, quieter. Here are a few verses by Zoyena Shams Ansari that...

You don't feel one thing at once. The heart gets exhausted going through this turmoil and yet, never stops experiencing the wide range of emotions all at once. When you're a writer, things become tougher for you for you feel almost everything more intensely. And your pen, when starts jotting down can't stick to just one thought. Just fly through...

Remember childhood when Disney was the ultimate stop for all our entertainment cravings? And the Disney princesses who ruled hearts back then. Giving up watching them was never an option as we grew up. But definitely, we began watching it from a different angle and started decoding the hidden messages it had. They're just heartwarming! The world of fantasy...

In India, 70% of diseases involving reproductive health present poor menstrual hygiene as the root cause. Not just this, but in some cases, these may lead to complications in pregnancy and even maternal mortality. As per a health survey, 58% of women aged between 15-24 years use locally prepared sanitary napkins, and around only 48% of women in rural...

Life is too short to experience all that it serves. We miss on a lot of beautiful and ugly but necessary aspects of life. That's why we need to hear out to others, particularly them who know how to use words in the wisest of ways possible. And they're the writers! Reading verses of some writers make us feel...

You know what's the most multifaceted emotion? Yes, you do and you're right! It's love. Two people spending an entire lifetime together are in love and so are two who could enjoy proximity for some counted moments and still cherish them. Going down on knees with roses in hands and a ring is how you confess love. But...

You have every power to achieve all you want and deserve. And Sir Stephen Hawking rightly proves this. Life played a trick to imprison his body in a wheel-chair and he decided to explore galaxies, decode black holes and travel beyond stars. Such was his knowledge and such was his determination. We're not remembering him because he has passed...

Whoever says that the most beautiful feelings and the worst of all pains can't be put into words, definitely has not yet sipped in shayaris. The most tender form of literature. A petal of words subtly carrying the raindrops fallen on it from a cloudy heart. What explains beauty even more beautifully is shayari. Let these beautiful verses by Zoyena Shams...