Mark McConville — Excerpt: To create art, you must be ambitious, and Holding Absence shows they’re masters of melancholia while breaking ground.
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Katha Haldar and Sarthak Das — Excerpt: As we gazed out of the bus window, the road unfolded before our eyes. Sometimes it veered, entering the heart of a distant village.
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Anita Nahal — Excerpt: As Santōka Taneda, Japanese author and haiku poet, expressed quite rightly, “Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.”
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Rachel Kitch — Excerpt: Only one thing was slightly off, and that was the bride. My dress—a custom Anne Barge—was slightly too big.
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Neera Kashyap — Excerpt: Divided into five segments, Nadistuti is an interconnected riverine flow of poems that reflect each other in a brilliant kaleidoscope of mirrors.
