Skip to content
THE HOOGHLY REVIEW

Literature, Culture & Arts | Estd. 2022

  • All Issues
    • 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
      • 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
    • Conversations
    • Film/TV
    • Magazines/Journals
    • Music
    • Remembrance
  • Submissions
  • The Beehive
  • Who We Are
    • Founding Editors
    • Guest Editors
    • Recognitions
    • Nominations by Us
    • Privacy Policy
  • THR in Print
  • All Issues
    • 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
      • 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
    • Conversations
    • Film/TV
    • Magazines/Journals
    • Music
    • Remembrance
  • Submissions
  • The Beehive
  • Who We Are
    • Founding Editors
    • Guest Editors
    • Recognitions
    • Nominations by Us
    • Privacy Policy
  • THR in Print
  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    Pujo is Here But Not for Everyone | Festive Edition

    21 September 2025

    Sanskriti Roy — Excerpt: But Maa’s arrival is only partial, because Pujo is not for everyone. I realise this while passing through the city’s restless traffic on a Rapido.

    Continue Reading
  • Culture - Photo Essay - Society - Weekly Features

    The God-makers | Festive Edition

    21 September 2025

    Tejaswinee Roychowdhury — Excerpt: Mum tells me that when she was little, she would sit with her knees to her chest all day, watching the God-makers at work.

    Continue Reading
  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    Fluent

    7 September 2025

    Cate LeBrun — Excerpt: I lack enough German to be considered functional so I nod like a stage actor, a smile fixed and hanging on by its sensitive teeth.

    Continue Reading
  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    Rapunzel Has Insomnia

    7 September 2025

    Mary Buchanan — Excerpt: Her DNA smells of roses and lavender and her days are spent searching mirrors for keys to the future her author has already denied her.

    Continue Reading
  • Culture - Humour - Society - Weekly Features

    Do Not Pet While Working

    24 August 2025

    Kira Córdova — Excerpt: If you have an 18th-century British military kink, I beg you, don’t tell me.

    Continue Reading
 Older Posts
Newer Posts 

This Week

Michael Smith takes trains and ferries to land in Oita, and Anasuya Basu drifts across Himalayan foothills.

Shinkansen Diaries: Discovering Japan by Rail (Part 3 – Oita) by Michael Smith

Through Tea, Forest and Mist: Exploring the Dooars by Anasuya Basu

What’s hot

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

“Breasts” by Allison Field Bell published in Issue 4, chosen for Best Microfiction 2026 by Diane Seuss

Fictile Feelings, guest-edited by Sanjeev Sethi

Editors’ Interview: Bookbot Theory | S2E29 | How Literary Magazines Shape Author Branding | YouTube | Spotify | Amazon Music

Welcome to The Beehive!

Follow us on Substack!

Murals, guest-edited by François Bereaud

current submission calls

ASAP Corner — Free, Fast, Rolling

Weekly Features — Free, Fast, Rolling

upcoming weekly features

TBD

listed/indexed on

Monthly Archives

© The Hooghly Review (2022-onwards)
Graceful Theme by Optima Themes