Music Review by 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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Salt, Shadows and the Tempest — A Drifting Odyssey
Travelogue by 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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Heart-touching and resplendent haiku — Daipayan Nair’s the ten hands of a fuchka seller
Book Review by 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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“Self-Portrait of My Father as James Baldwin Reading Me Notes of a Native Son” by I Echo
Best of the Net 2025 Nomination: CNF Category — Originally published on 5 May 2024 in THR Weekly Features
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“A Map of the Welsh Coast as Seen by My Mother” by MJ Huntsgood
Best of the Net 2025 Nomination: CNF Category — Originally published on 12 May 2024 in THR Weekly Features