ध्रुव खुराना, कक्षा ११वीं F
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Art by Dhruv Khurana, Class XI F |
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Art by Dhruv Khurana, Class XI F |
Alone I stand before the sea,
The sloshing waves washed me.
Foot prints gone from the sandy shore,
Leave no signs like it showed before.
I slowly turned around,
It’s a new beginning I found.
All the worries, all the sadness,
Let it be washed away,
Let it be given back to yesterday.
Look up and look down,
The sky looks one with the ground.
Treasured memories will always stay,
Yes! Hardtimes are faded away.
Reviewed By | : | Prachi Palod, Class XI C |
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Based on true events, this book revolves around the life of an American woman who is held hostage by her Iranian husband with their daughter in his native country, where women empowerment is still a far-fetched idea. After several futile attempts to escape, she finally flees the torturous clutches of her husband and his community with the help of the few local people. The American Embassy in Tehran also helps her return to her motherland with her daughter. It’s a journey of a woman who yearns for freedom in a country where women are still at the mercy of men. Evoking a true sense of freedom, this book sends a shiver down one’s spine.
Written by Betty Mahmoody, to help the American women and children held against their will in Iran and other Islamic countries, this book inspires a rebellion, and provides a different outlook towards the plight of women in Islamic countries.
I enjoyed reading this book and I am sure all Shishyans will enjoy reading it too!
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Dawn seeps into me
with its moisture and cool breaths
and I become the dawn
all vermilion –
prepared to dissolve myself
into the heart of a blazing day.
The sun doesn’t burn me.
How can it?
I am its own ray.
Fiercely, I fall on the Earth
but humbly, she gives me an identity.
I become the newly sprouted sapling
stretching its arms
towards the sky and
roots groping the unknown.
Suddenly, I grow into cottony feathers
and wind carries me
wherever it pleases.
I don’t lose my existence
anywhere – anytime to anything.
I only become.