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Poem : Towards the Heavens

Original : When it left my hand and rose against the earth, I attempted to bound it. But bounds were not what it was meant for, and its destiny found it. It started getting lost in the sky, but a beauty it brought in lives. A ray of light in darkness, it was. Romanticized in words, a tragic cause.                                     - Sush ant Kumar Das From A Child's Perspective: The boy like me was holding a balloon, which wanted to go in sky. And he accidentally left the thread, and the balloon started to fly. I kept looking at the sky, and by disappearing, it showed it's might. The elders were looking at him and smiling, as if it was a beautiful sight. They looked at him in the same way I do when my brother has something that I have lost. They were smiling at him while exchanging words,...

When Heat Overtakes Life

Do you crave for the sun too, when cold is seeping through your body, and you can neither run from it nor hide from it? When every part of your body has started going numb, and you aren't even aware of the battle that your inner biology is going through to prevent that, do you crave for the ray of light that brings warmth along with it? Well, we sure did. And boy, did our wish come true; rather someone went a little too overboard with our wish. It was a few decades ago, when scientists realised that the extent of global warming has taken an exponential rate of growth, and warned the world administration about it, suggesting safety measures. But while most of the countries were not able to successfully execute the safety measures, some spent their time in denying that global warming exists (no jokes there). And finally everything went really well. By the way, did I mention that the world population is below ten thousands now? No? Well did I mention that all of us, champs of our ci...