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Essays, opinion pieces, reviews, profiles, and poems — published across Global Talks, The Global Times, Reflections Magazine, MUN International Press, and literary anthologies.

Global Talks — Online Magazine

Opinion · Society · LGBTQ+
Who Can Give A Law To Lovers?

When the Supreme Court struck down Section 377, it was an overdue acknowledgement of the higher law of love. A reflection on what this means for India's LGBT community.

Oct 2018
Pride & Prejudice Issue
Sports · Culture · Women
The World is Not About He-Man; It's About Hima

How 18-year-old Hima Das clinched India's first-ever gold at a global track event, and carried the gamosa to remind the world where she came from.

Aug 2018
Mélange Issue
Politics · Geopolitics
The India-China Border Tension — Is it an Indication of War?

Amid the pandemic, a war-like situation erupts at the LAC. The deep historical roots and present-day triggers of the India-China standoff, examined.

May 2020
Global Talks

The Global Times — School Newspaper, AIS Noida

History · Culture
Relics of the Past: Remembrances of Mahatma Gandhi

On Gandhi's 151st birth anniversary — the charkha, spectacles, ahimsa chappals, and handwritten letters that defined minimalism and magnanimity.

Oct 2020
Gandhi Jayanti Special
Humour · Personal · Life
Fighting Tooth With Nail

A humorously exaggerated account of two years in braces — written to vent the years of repressed anger.

Class X
The Global Times
Opinion · Pandemic · Nature
Dear Covid-19

An open letter to the coronavirus — acknowledging its grim lesson, thanking it for letting nature breathe, and asking it to stop. GT Quarantine Special.

Class XI
GT Quarantine Special
Creative Writing · Satire · Pandemic
Autobiography of Corona

A first-person account narrated by the coronavirus itself — how it was born, how it travels, and why human carelessness is entirely to blame.

Class XI
Reflections, Apr 2020
Society · Pandemic · India
Corona Out in the Arena

A vivid panorama of how the pandemic reshaped daily life — from supermarket hoarding to nature reclaiming the streets.

Class XI
The Global Times
Life · Philosophy · Emotions
What Is Life? — A Beautiful Amalgamation of Feelings and Emotions

From the contentment of small children to the devotion of Mira Bai — how love, hatred and anger define the arc of human life.

Class XII
The Global Times

Reflections Magazine — Associate Editor & Contributor

Society · Culture · Opinion
Zombie Culture

Not fake blood — the real zombie culture is the modern world of thoughtlessness and a desperate refusal to let things change or end.

Nov 2020
'Within the Surreal'
Life · Philosophy · Personal
Each Day Is a Blank Canvas

On uncertainty, anxiety and the quiet courage it takes to paint your life when you can't see beyond today.

Aug 2020
'Into the Unknown'
History · Justice · India
Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits: A Forgotten Tragedy?

The cold dark night of January 19, 1990 — the slogans, the mobs, the abandonment — 30 years on, the wound has not fully healed.

Jun 2020
'Justice Beyond Just Us'
Society · Philanthropy · Values
Don't Give to Get

Your biggest and sole reward for giving back is the realisation that you've made a difference in someone's life.

Dec 2018
'The Social Conscience'
Film Review · Romance · Culture
Review: Five Feet Apart

What's love without touch? Is love more vital than life? A review of the tear-jerking romance about two teenagers with cystic fibrosis.

Jul 2019
'To Cinema, With Love'
Poetry · Time · Existence
Uncertainty

All one has is today. A poem on the fleeting nature of promises, the taunting of destiny, and the only real choice: to carry oneself with belief.

May 2021
'Catharsis' Issue
Poetry · Culture · Personal
But First, Chai

A Gen Z sceptic discovers the thick brown liquid capable of filling silences with sweetness and a mind at havoc with calmness.

Mar 2021
'Food' Issue

MUN International Press & The Global Times Club

Poetry · History · Maratha Empire
The Disheartening Chronology

A narrative poem tracing the fall of the Maratha Empire — from Ahmad Shah Durrani's jihad to the forty years of anarchy that followed.

2020
DEL-E-CON MUN Press
Poetry · Music · Emotion
My Dear Piano

As the fingers land on the keys, a sense of escape palpates. Where black and white keys fill the head with every colour.

May 2021
Ingeniously Illuminated

Personal Verse

Poetry · Love · Letting Go
A Truth That Will Never Fade

Not love that asks for "always mine" — but something stronger, something true. A poem on loving, hurting, regretting, and the kind of quiet love that stays even through parting.

2026
Personal Verse