By Uttara Shidore. To me, drawing these patterns feels like a silent prayer—healing, meditative, and cathartic.

By Narendra Pachkhede. The Sharm el-Sheikh Peace Summit on Gaza: a televised triumph? A reality show dressed up as a fake peace accord?

Anuradha Kumar. A murder is only part of everything else that happens in a small town over certain years. It’s never properly resolved. A murder was a dramatic way for me to ask questions. And there are still so many questions.

By Ajith Pillai. Is the AI bubble bound to burst? A recent case tells a story.

By Samina Salim. Damage, desolation, desperation; too much for too long. Today I write dream, I write bloom, I write freedom.

By Ajith Pillai. Does this suggest that people, citizens of a nation, brainwashed over the decades to accept totalitarian authority silently, have lost their will to protest?

By Narendra Pachkhede. And who speaks for Gaza?

By Ratna Raman. In VS Naipaul's semi-autobiographical ‘A House for Mr Biswas’, there are only fleeting glimpses of its most attractive woman character. What if she were to tell her story and that of Naipaul – or Anand, her son in the novel – instead of the other way round? Hence, her story.

By Amartya Acharya. It's all in that ‘perhaps’, and thus we needed more. We didn't need Dylan depicted as ‘A Complete Unknown’. Rather we needed to understand the mindset that makes him Like a Rolling Stone.

By Ajith Pillai. Political Science Fiction: The government’s Mahasamadhi Bill as forced Euthanasia for millions of the jobless and poor. Only the rich could live and flourish. The advertising blitz that accompanied it was persistent. ‘Death is not Elimination; It’s an Elevation’ -- was the official slogan that haunted citizens 24/7.

By Sarita Chouhan. Like a weaver weaving warp and weft. It's repetitive. Meditative. Mystic.

By Ramsharan Joshi. The libraries in these schools are extraordinary. Public libraries offer memberships to 6-month-old babies! I saw this in Edmonton, the capital of Alberta, Canada. Even 4th and 5th graders are used to ‘heavy books’. In summer, children are encouraged to read and write, and discover their  independent minds.

By Narendra Pachkhede. His music was steeped in jazz and cabaret; his dialogue was in the Beiruti dialect, his wit was mordant. He wrote not of cedars but of unpaid rent, not of timeless landscapes, but of shifting alliances. He did not so much mock Lebanon’s hypocrisies as make them speak.

By Arjun Janah. But, still, be gentle with yourself.

Ayasha Kaur. People have been so afraid of educating their daughters because they would say, “If tomorrow daughters become educated, they will write letters to boys.” This exposes the inherent fears of this patriarchal society. This means that if girls become educated, they will fight for their rights, they will take their rights themselves, they will not need to become dependent on anyone.

By Binu Mathew. Yes, we are Davids facing Goliath with just a stone in our hands. At first glance, we are destined to fail. But if we act collectively, we can win.

By Aditya Nigam. Well, the upshot was that I had to tell them that I would not be able to do what I was expected to do by the ‘German public sphere’ -- that is, dance to the tune of the German and the Israeli states.

By Uttara and Sudarshan Shidore. To mark 50 years of the greatest entertainer, blockbuster, and the most successful Hindi film ever made, here's a quiz on the film, designed by Uttara and Sudarshan Shidore.

By Harshit Rana. In this dark world, there is a need of little spark, so as to make a better world where at least two people can love, work, study, play and share, without the fear of age-old boundaries and prejudices imposed on them.

The Ambassador of Palestine in India, H.E. Abdullah Mohammad A Abushawesh, writes to Editor, Amit Sengupta.