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Literature, Culture & Arts | Estd. 2022

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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
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    • Conversations
    • Excerpts
    • Film/TV
    • Magazines/Journals
    • Music
    • Remembrance
  • The Writer’s Gauntlet
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Fictile Feelings (Poetry Special, October 2025)

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

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Pratibhāsika (Speculative Fiction, July 2026)

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  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    “The Ticking Clock and Hand Letter” by Jodee Fok

    8 November 2026

    So you start carefully counting how many days you can go without a job. And every second, the clock ticks, and the countdown continues.

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    “The Demons Within Our Circles and the Angels Within Us” by Chitra Gopalakrishnan

    8 November 2026

    “Food Fairies” by Bodhisatwa Ray ‘Bodhi’

    1 November 2026

    “Is he an Iyengar?” by Krish

    1 November 2026
  • Culture - History - Society - Weekly Features

    “The Demons Within Our Circles and the Angels Within Us” by Chitra Gopalakrishnan

    8 November 2026

    Two African paradise flycatchers, grey-headed and chestnut-winged, decide to join in the revelry and warble as they flit in and out of the guava tree that spreads over most of the lawn.

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    “The Ticking Clock and Hand Letter” by Jodee Fok

    8 November 2026

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    “Is he an Iyengar?” by Krish

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  • The Writer's Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye

    Dramatic, Determined, Makes Terrible Life Choices, Yet Shows Up The Next Day Like Nothing Happened — Sri Lankan Teen Who Dropped Novel Before Her Prefrontal Cortex Finished Loading on Why Her Ride-or-Die is Tom from Tom and Jerry (Not Donald Lame Duck)

    5 November 2026

    Sue me. I’d rather defend my artistic cruelty in court than mandate a happy ending.

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    Paul Bassett Davies is Writer in Residence, at his house. He’s Been Writing For Forty Years, And He Still Hasn’t Finished. Find Out Why.

    29 October 2026

    Author Investigates Reincarnation, Suspects He Has Been Making The Same Mistake For Centuries

    22 October 2026

    Bewildered Old Man Held Hostage By Imaginary Criminals And A Cat.

    15 October 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Play

    “‘The Scottish Play’ in Bangla: On Subarna Mondal’s Macbeth” by Subham Mukherjee

    3 November 2026

    Macbeth was written yesterday, Macbeth is being written today, and Macbeth will be written tomorrow.

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    “When the River Remembers: Umar Nizarudeen’s The Moplah Speaks of the Rivers” by Haimanti Bagchi

    17 October 2026

    “The Geography of Unfinished Memory: Trauma, Belonging and the Ethics of Return in Umair Ahmed Khan’s The Valley of Unfinished Songs” by Wani Nazir

    8 October 2026

    “The Unease Beneath the Ordinary: Review of Geet Chaturvedi’s Scent of the Nameless, tr. Anita Gopalan” by Tarang Sinha

    2 October 2026
  • Culture - Food - Weekly Features

    “Food Fairies” by Bodhisatwa Ray ‘Bodhi’

    1 November 2026

    He walked around the mohallah mostly in silence, called out “Mishtiiiii” in a deep baritone when he felt like it.

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    “The Ticking Clock and Hand Letter” by Jodee Fok

    8 November 2026

    “The Demons Within Our Circles and the Angels Within Us” by Chitra Gopalakrishnan

    8 November 2026

    “Is he an Iyengar?” by Krish

    1 November 2026
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Jodee Fok reflects on the etymology of words and the meanings of things they stand for, and Chitra Gopalakrishnan probes a nation-state rebuilding itself after an ethnic genocide.

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