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Literature, Culture & Arts | Estd. 2022

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    • Pratibhāsika (Speculative Fiction, July 2026)
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  • All Issues
    • Pratibhāsika (Speculative Fiction, July 2026)
    • The Many Lives of Atlas A (Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition)
    • Fictile Feelings (Poetry Special, October 2025)
    • Issue 4 (April 2025)
    • Murals (December 2024)
    • Issue 3 (April 2024)
    • Wee Hooghly, Issue 1 (January 2024)
    • Issue 2 (October 2023)
    • Issue 1 (April 2023)
  • Weekly Features
    • Craft
    • Culture
      • Faith
      • Film/TV
      • Food
      • Literature
      • Music
      • Mythology
      • Satire
      • Science
      • Society
      • Sports
      • Theatre
      • Wildlife
    • Humour
    • Photo Essay
    • Translation
    • Travelogue
    • Book Review (Till Feb 2025)
    • Weekly Features Archive (October 6, 2024 and Before)
  • ASAP Corner
    • Books
    • Commentary
    • Conversations
    • Excerpts
    • Film/TV
    • Magazines/Journals
    • Music
    • Remembrance
  • The Writer’s Gauntlet
  • Submissions
  • Who We Are
    • Founding Editors
    • Guest Editors
    • Recognitions
    • Nominations
    • Privacy Policy

Fictile Feelings (Poetry Special, October 2025)

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Pratibhāsika (Speculative Fiction, July 2026)

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The Many Lives of Atlas A (Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition)

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  • Travelogue - Weekly Features

    “Journey to the north-eastern end of Deutschland” by Subham Mukherjee

    16 August 2026

    I had planned a trip to Seebad Heringsdorf. It’s a coastal town right next to the Polish border. It was my partner’s birthday. And this was our first time in Europe.

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    “Peaks, Pine and Peace — A Dream Getaway at Bahu Village” by Urmi Chakravorty

    16 August 2026

    “French One, Seven Times” by Curtis C. Morgan

    26 July 2026

    “Shinkansen Diaries: Discovering Japan by Rail (Part 4 – Kyoto)” by Michael Smith

    5 July 2026
  • Travelogue - Weekly Features

    “Peaks, Pine and Peace — A Dream Getaway at Bahu Village” by Urmi Chakravorty

    16 August 2026

    Bahu village is a sleepy hamlet where the snow-crested Tirthan peaks whisper ancient secrets to the vast vistas of wilderness wrapping them.

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    “Journey to the north-eastern end of Deutschland” by Subham Mukherjee

    16 August 2026

    “French One, Seven Times” by Curtis C. Morgan

    26 July 2026

    “Shinkansen Diaries: Discovering Japan by Rail (Part 4 – Kyoto)” by Michael Smith

    5 July 2026
  • The Writer's Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye

    How Far Up The Glass Escalator Can Mediocre White Man With An MFA Fall? Pretty Fucking Far!

    13 August 2026

    I name my characters after people such as the guy who rang up the cumin at the cash register who is himself really into Babylonian esotericism but not so much that he changed his name to Zoltan ben’Marduk or anything.

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    Kelly Field Trained For A Decade To Understand Human Behaviour; Remains Completely Baffled By Her Own.

    6 August 2026

    Time Traveler Jay Oatway Returns with the One Simple Trick of Getting Your Novel Published! (And editors hate him!)

    30 July 2026

    Bearded Enviable Teacher Kev Harrison Expelled For Promoting Pagan Rituals Blames Cat Overlords

    23 July 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Film/TV

    “Balan: The Boy – Some Childhoods Are Not Remembered, They Are Mourned” by Neetha Prasad

    11 August 2026

    Balan, the boy, never really comes of age. But his innocence does. It becomes older than he ever will, carrying the burden of knowing what no child should have to know. That, perhaps, is the deepest sorrow that the film leaves us with.

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    “Babydoll Dresses and Dirty Minds: How Art Suffers from Perversion” by Gabby Woehr

    7 August 2026

    “Reimagining Tagore’s Women — Three Women: A Graphic Novel by Isheeta Ganguly, Illustrated by Chirantan Sarkar” by Anjana Basu

    19 July 2026

    “a gift of attention: K Ramesh’s spinning pinwheels” by Geetha Ravichandran

    8 July 2026
  • Humour - Weekly Features

    “I Rot with Impatience” by Michael Fowler

    9 August 2026

    I find that the mellowness and calm reflective attitude that I expected would soothe me as I became older has yet to arrive.

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    “The Day the Stork Died” by Patrick Carella

    9 August 2026

    “The Date” by Arpita Bhawal

    26 July 2026

    “French One, Seven Times” by Curtis C. Morgan

    26 July 2026
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Subham Mukherjee takes in the Baltic from the north-eastern German coast, and Urmi Chakravorty learns local lore and trends in Himachal Pradesh.

Journey to the north-eastern end of Deutschland by Subham Mukherjee

Peaks, Pine and Peace — A Dream Getaway at Bahu Village by Urmi Chakravorty

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