The Track ‘Dilbaro’ from the film ‘Raazi’ where Alia Bhatt essays the role of an Indian spy sent to Pakistan on a mission to collect confidential information ahead of the Indo-Pak war of 1971. She is married to the son of a Pakistani general for her mission and her wedding has the soothing song ‘Dilbaro’ playing in the background. ‘Dilbaro’ has been trending across the entire social media since it has been released. But it is not the only one trending, a lot of covers and dance videos dedicated to ‘Dilbaro’ have also been trending.

Recently Saloni Rai, a young and dynamic singer from Haryana, made the cover of the amazing song ‘Dilbaro’. Saloni is very passionate about music and her overwhelming love for music gives her the inner strength to never give up never get down. The person behind the amazing music production is Neeraj Kaalia.

The original song ‘Dilbaro’ plays as Alia’s character of a Kashmiri girl Sehmat gets hitched to Pakistani army officer Iqbal Syed, played by Vicky Kaushal. It starts with a Kashmiri couplet in the voice of singer Vibha Saraf. The song in the voice of Harshdeep Kaur beautifully captures the bond a father and a daughter share. ‘Dilbaro’ will tug at your heartstrings and you might end up playing it on a loop. Penned by noted lyricist Gulzar, the song brings forth the feelings of a father who has to let his daughter go after marriage and wait for her to come back sometime soon. It gives words to countless emotions that go unexpressed between a father and a daughter on the latter’s wedding.

Listen to the cover song here:

Mehak Mirza Prabhu, born in 1982, is a writer and story teller from Mumbai, who creates fictional stories in multiple languages. The audio story telling through voice modulations is one of her unique strength. She is a blogger, script writer, social enthusiast also; who runs an online story telling school named ‘Jhumritaliaya’, dedicated towards merging art form of classic story telling with original stories that reflects recent trends in modern times.

She was an entrepreneur few years back, but now she is a full-time writer – storyteller – voice over artist – performer – mentor.

Her story telling act ‘Zoya Ki Diwali’, songs by Mohammad Muneem, was listed as the ‘Top 10 theatre acts of 2017’ by the Mumbai Theatre Guide.

Her story ‘Phir Mohobbat Karni Hai’, performed at an event organised by ‘YourQuote’ in collaboration with Tinder, has gained over 5 Million views, across various digital platforms.

She collaborates with Mohammad Muneem for story telling duet form. Their story telling act on child abuse was recently performed at IIT, Bombay. Their recent show; “Valentine’s Day Special Set” in Indore was featured in the Dainak Bhaskar. She has performed alongside legendary artist Piyush Mishra at an event in Jaipur. She has been featured in Bombay Times, Times of India, Being Indian, The Logical Indian to name a few.

Her Tedx talk on “How Story Telling Saved Me” has been highly appreciated.

Mehak is also a social reform enthusiast and has featured in the campaign “The Bridge Talks” by Caravan Magazine.

Apart from the events, Mehak puts up regular intimate story telling shows in Hindi, Marathi and Urdu across Mumbai Metropolitan City.

She conducts workshops of her story telling school ‘Jhumritaliaya’ aiming at creating story tellers out of common people from their day to day observations and imagination in their mother tongue.

She recently in collaboration with KalArt for telling a beautiful stroy ‘Ammi ka Mobile Phone’. We always hear the term ‘Aaj Kal Ke Bacche’ used in a negative way. This story came a handy of breaking this notion and showing that there exists another side to every coin. It is a story surrounding the basic emotions that run through every family. Click here to watch the video now.

It is said that God can’t be everywhere which is why he created a mother. Of the various types of love that one experiences in their life, almost nothing compares to that of a mother’s as it is unconditional, priceless and the biggest blessing of life. It can never be put in words, but can only be understood completely when one becomes a mother. There is something magical about motherhood that brings women closer to each other and makes us realize our mother’s love in its truest sense.

There are so many things that a mother does for her kids and family.From the very first pain of bringing her child into this world, to the innumerable sacrifices for her family, to being the first teacher of life and yet being the partner in all the mischiefs. “Meri Maa Ki Beti” brings to light these moments, in the most beautiful way possible. Through her poem, Niharika, takes us on a journey to our childhood, filled with beautiful memories of our mothers.

Niharika Mishra is a mother, a sleep-deprived impulsive writer who is often lost and found in a Bollywood style daydream. Check out her poem ‘Meri Maa Ki Beti’.

This Mother’s Day, let us roam in the lanes of memories, holding our mothers hands, yet again.

Call-centre workers have it tough. Like retail staff, they are frontline cannon fodder. They have the task of dealing with people who are in the majority of cases lovely and reasonable but also sometimes disgruntled and short of patience. If one works for 40 hours a week, the last thing one wants to do is spend 20 minutes on the phone to a stranger discussing why their bill had gone up 30%. But they do it everyday.

Everyday they sit at their desks and answer to all our queries politely no matter what is happening in their personal lives. They have the ability to multitask and micromanage things at the same time.

Click here to watch the beautiful words by Rakesh Tiwari as he describes his life of working at a BPO through this beautiful poem.

Credits: Tafreeh Peshkash

The power of questions, is often undermined. We often don’t realise what raising a question can achieve. Great ideas start with a “how”. Revolutions begin with a “why”. Kajender Srivastava attempts at questioning the gross injustice happening right in front of us.

Belief in faith and hope, keeps us standing. But blind faith? God, the creator, the destroyer, the ever forgiving. How could he stand and watch his creation cull those that cry for his mercy? How can he withstand the crimes being committed in his name?

The poet strongly believe that god helps those who help themselves, which means, his creations, who he created in his light. The elected leaders of this so called free world, their inactivity, and their attempts at materialistic rehabilitation will not bring the silenced laughter of a million little children back.

So where does that leave us? It leaves us with an initiative. A question. What can we do? Ask yourselves, what can we do? We can open our homes, we can ask our leaders to let go of the inanimate concept of borders and welcome those who have lost it all.

Because we will always have this. The powers of hope, humanity, and questions.

Click here to watch the full poem.