Creative Desk

< p style="text-align: center;"> Choose Your Luxury: Quiet or Noisy?   By PRAMITA BOSE As a young yuppie software whiz, Sumit thinks it to be cool enough to buy an electronic guitar without even knowing how to strum a string or two. That’s how he has always been a show-off to his buddies ever since he grew up as a pampered brat. Oblivious of the pragmatic world, collegian Simran loosens her pursestrings to overspend her paltry savings from her pocket money on a haute, fancy outfit. Being a high-profile business tycoon’s wife and an affluent socialite, Mrs. Namita Kapoor too hardly felt the pinch while acquiring a sparkling diamond necklace to draw stares and glares from her peers. Seems her self-indulgent pleasures know no bounds. If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It! From the above cases we gather that this is how the new money of the nouveau riche smells and speaks ostensibly to boast branded goods and status symbols. The elaborate spread of opulence and wealth screams

< p style="text-align: center;">  Love & Longing… BY PRAMITA BOSE Three masked men  Came to the fore They leaped and pranced, They hopped more and more Their joyous smiley faces Had said it all Each rode a bicycle Atop a ball What fine balance, What acrobatic skills! Are they only midgets? Or magicians all feel! They juggled and giggled,  They rolled on the floor They tried out every trick in the book They never intended to bore Scratching their heads, They looked at the clock Time was speeding away To signal silence and no more talks Scooting to the side-wings, They pulled the string hard Up went the velvet curtain To unveil the statue of a bard Carved in stark white The sculpture stood tall at the centre stage The poet had composed this musical In a different age, So melancholic, beautiful and lyrical The play is laced with a heartwarming message Must appeal to everyone From the layman to a sage It