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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)
  • 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
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    • Music
    • Remembrance
  • The Writer’s Gauntlet
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  • ASAP Corner - Film/TV

    The Spy Who Came in from the Servers: Technology, Nation, and Global Citizens in Neeraj Pandey’s Special Ops 2

    25 July 2025

    Nimish Dass — Excerpt: Special Ops is a global Indian web series in the true sense and should be on the bucket list of those—especially non-Indians—interested in Indian intelligence, state politics, and foreign affairs.

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    “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

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

    1 September 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Film/TV

    Gulkand: A Bloom of Love, Memory, and Matriarchy

    24 July 2025

    Namrata — Excerpt: On the surface, it is a light-hearted family drama. Beneath that, it is a quiet revolution in storytelling, one that centres women not only as emotional anchors but as agents of clarity, dignity, and transformation.

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    “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

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

    1 September 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    Microscopes, Murmurs, and Mystics — Reading Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome

    22 July 2025

    Anindita Basak — Excerpt: Through its shifting perspectives, the novel conjures an eerie, hypnotic atmosphere — hot monsoon nights, dank hospital halls, the colonial bureaucracy, and whispered conspiracy, hovering between scientific rationality and something more primal.

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    “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

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

    1 September 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Film/TV

    To Bee or Not to Bee? — Bee Movie’s Insight into Artistic Interpretation

    16 May 2025

    Gabby Woehr — Excerpt: Bee Movie’s most important takeaway can be debated at length, as the movie speaks to class divides, work culture, and environmentalism, among other issues.

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    “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

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

    1 September 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    Bouquet of Diverse Voices — Bridges Not Borders: An Anthology of South Asian Writing

    12 April 2025

    Asha Krishna — Excerpt: People inhabiting these stories come from different areas of life but their personas come alive on the pages through their aspirations and prejudices, which then offers a sharp insight into how contemporary society — often how Asian society — operates.

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    “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

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

    1 September 2026
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