Stay tuned to our new posts and updates! Click to join us on WhatsApp L&C-Whatsapp
learningandcreativity
LnC
Learning & Creativity
Write For Us Advertise With Us Blue Pencil Support
 
 
  1. Home
    2. >

LnC Silhouette Magazine's Blog

LnC Silhouette Magazine

About LnC Silhouette Magazine

Silhouette Magazine is a platform for gathering myriad views on film (and allied art forms) and to continue with the flux of discourse. The Silhouette publications are our attempt to achieve this goal.
 
A Blob of Meat’s Entrapment: A Short Story
She thoughtlessly slipped the polythene parcel of minced meat in the khaki paper bag-the bag held by her long and slim hands......
Stories
Learn from Mistakes
Make mistakes and learn from them. ...
Quotes
Experience and Knowledge
“A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.” ― Lemony Snicket,...
Quotes
The Sunset
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ― Maya Angelou...
Art by Kids
A Strange Darkness
"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself." - Desiderius Erasmus ...
Poems
Choices Before an Aspiring Writer
Write to please yourself. And find as much pleasure as you can in the company of your work. But don't try to draw others' attention to your work. They shall find nothing in your work to sustain their interest. ...
Resources for Writers
Technology: Can It Heal the World?
Man first used the power to hold back the calamities of nature, and then to bring under control, all the cosmic phenomena unpropitious to the mundane world....
Teen Times
A Choice of Flags
"I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities." ~ Jack Canfield ...
Poems
Learning Quotes on Growing Up
Learning quotes on growing up and helping others....
Motivation
Secret of Happiness Quotes
Secret of happiness quotes: The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. ~ James M Barrie...
Motivation
Wrong Picture: A Short Story
An open ended short story set in Kanya Kumari. Read how to write the Open Ended Story in Writer's Scratchpad....
Stories
The ‘Open Ended Story’
In an open-ended story or narrative, the reader is left to draw her/his conclusions from what is presented to her/him. ...
Resources for Writers
Metaphor: A Play in Poetry
Metaphor is an ornament of poetry. It lends to the word to which it gets associated clarity and exactitude. ...
Resources for Writers
Interpreter Of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter Of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000. A review by Paul Sanjoy Gonsalves...
Book Reviews
Citizen Kane: ‘Classical’, but not Hollywood
After taking a close look at Citizen Kane's early scenes, a salient feature of the film's narrative strategy becomes evident: the permanent play with Hollywood conventions. ...
About Movies
Another Bus
There appeared to be a subtle but fierce competition inside the bus to share a seat with her and enjoy her garrulous company....
Musings
Paris Programme
A short story about hopes, aspirations and favoritism in management hierarchy and multinational corporations...
Stories
A Poetess and Her Innermost Being
One would be looking forward to more poems from Mary Herbert in future. She has a fertile pen, capable of highlighting the sensitivity of nature and the tribulations of our time. A pen, many would like to possess....
Book Reviews
An Honest Confession
My mother on the other side was a character with staunch piousness and heavy ethics. I'll have to strain my brain greatly to recall any incident where I found her stepping out of her ethics. ...
Musings
A Mother’s Cry
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~ Abraham Lincoln ...
Poems
An Open Window
I could not take my eyes off her face nor could I turn away from the red salwar kurta she wore that blended so well with the red which had caked her face. ...
Stories
Self Belief: You Can Do It!
You Can Do It! Self belief is the key to progress and success. Nurture dreams and achieve goals by believing in your own strength. ...
Child Development
The Writer’s Perception of Truth
The ultimate purpose of every short story writer is to communicate an aspect of the truth of life....
Resources for Writers
Writing Short Stories
Of all forms of literature, the short story is perhaps the crest jewel of good writing. It is not too long and therefore ends before one's attention is diverted to something else. ...
Resources for Writers
Reminiscences of the Silent Chanakya
Rao's alter ego, Anand, is born into a 'middle middle class' family in a sleepy hamlet of Afrozabad state of princely India. ...
Book Reviews
An Attempt with French
I look up and scan my reflection. My layered hair has escaped my frail attempt at a ponytail. ...
Musings
Echo
The pit-pats of fingers on keyboards and beeps from neatly arranged cubicles fell like a soothing drone on his perception....
Stories
Fashion Trends and Teenagers
The world of fashion is ever changing and fashion is all about glitzy, glitter and glamour. ...
Teen Times
All In Deep Sleep
All In Deep Sleep - A beautiful short story on love and sadness by Denis Rohit Soreng....
Musings
tibet
My Tibetanness
A poem on by writer-activist Tenzin Tsundue on his Tibetan roots and identity. Tenzin Tsundue has been involved in the Tibetan independence movement from his student days....
Poems


Latest in Silhouette Magazine

Khuda nigehban ho tumhara -song analysis
Khuda Nigehban Ho Tumhara: An Unforgettable Farewell
The Song Story
Salil Chowdhury - Creating Music Outside the Rules (NS-Rajan)
Salil Chowdhury: Creating Music 'Outside the Rules'
Music Makers
When Geetmala Ruled Hindi Cinema
When Geetmala Ruled Hindi Film Music
Indian Cinema Retrospectives
Nabendu Ghosh in conversation with Ameen Sayani 2
‘My heart swells with pride when I see their work': Nabendu Ghosh in conversation with Ameen Sayani
Indian Film Personalities
Madhumati - Salil Chowdhury’s Magnum Opus
Madhumati: Salil Chowdhury’s Magnum Opus in Hindi Cinema
Music Makers