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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)
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    • Issue 1 (April 2023)
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    • Humour
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  • ASAP Corner - Conversations

    Sadie Kaye and Holly Sykes Go Beyond The Book Cover: Judging Books Judging Us — Art, Memoir, and the Books That Read Us

    21 September 2026

    Holly Sykes is a Hong Kong author and essayist whose Substack, Beyond the Book Cover, explores a beautiful premise: that our wonky IKEA bookshelves are actually time machines.

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    “Channelling the Wellspring of Energy: Review of Madhu Gangopadhyay’s Alien Terrain & Other Poems” by Chitra Gopalakrishnan

    23 September 2026

    “The Search for a Place to Belong: Omair Ahmad’s Homecoming” by Anjana Basu

    22 September 2026

    “Someone Else’s War: A Review of Patricia Grace King’s Those Who Vanish” by Joanna Theiss

    1 September 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Conversations

    Vijayalakshmi Sridhar in conversation with Shobha Viswanath

    15 June 2026

    If I had to reduce Karadi Tales' differentiator to one idea, it would be this: authentic Indian storytelling with global craft, and very particularly, our audio storytelling.

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    “Channelling the Wellspring of Energy: Review of Madhu Gangopadhyay’s Alien Terrain & Other Poems” by Chitra Gopalakrishnan

    23 September 2026

    “The Search for a Place to Belong: Omair Ahmad’s Homecoming” by Anjana Basu

    22 September 2026

    Sadie Kaye and Holly Sykes Go Beyond The Book Cover: Judging Books Judging Us — Art, Memoir, and the Books That Read Us

    21 September 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Conversations

    Mayuri Chawla Saini in conversation with Chitra Gopalakrishnan

    9 June 2026

    My challenge lay in shifting the reader’s focus from the physical to the metaphysical journey and moving their cognition from visceral and visual to one that is markedly less so.

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    “Channelling the Wellspring of Energy: Review of Madhu Gangopadhyay’s Alien Terrain & Other Poems” by Chitra Gopalakrishnan

    23 September 2026

    “The Search for a Place to Belong: Omair Ahmad’s Homecoming” by Anjana Basu

    22 September 2026

    Sadie Kaye and Holly Sykes Go Beyond The Book Cover: Judging Books Judging Us — Art, Memoir, and the Books That Read Us

    21 September 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Conversations

    Rachel Turney In Conversation with Samantha Terrell

    24 April 2026

    Poetry doesn’t wait for life—it was right there with me, battling alongside me through a tenuous and vulnerable time. And I’m grateful for that.

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    “Channelling the Wellspring of Energy: Review of Madhu Gangopadhyay’s Alien Terrain & Other Poems” by Chitra Gopalakrishnan

    23 September 2026

    “The Search for a Place to Belong: Omair Ahmad’s Homecoming” by Anjana Basu

    22 September 2026

    Sadie Kaye and Holly Sykes Go Beyond The Book Cover: Judging Books Judging Us — Art, Memoir, and the Books That Read Us

    21 September 2026

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