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Literature, Culture & Arts | Estd. 2022

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    • Murals (December 2024)
    • Issue 3 (April 2024)
    • Wee Hooghly, Issue 1 (January 2024)
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  • Translation - Weekly Features

    In the Shadow of an Absence

    9 November 2025

    Mojaffor Hossain, translated from the Bengali by Rituparna Mukherjee — Excerpt: Hello, this is Himadri. My house is at 3/3 Blind Lane, I have a corpse in my house.

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  • Translation - Weekly Features

    The Next Wednesday: English Translation of the Gujarati short story, નિત્યક્રમ (Nityakram), written by Panna Naik

    3 August 2025

    Translated by Rohee Dholakia — Excerpt: One afternoon, on your way from work to the post office, you notice Prerna from 20 feet away near the glass pane of the Manhattan bagel cafe.

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  • Translation - Weekly Features

    Poems from Bhartrihari’s Shatakatraya (The Three Hundreds)

    15 June 2025

    Translated from the Sanskrit by Louis Hunt — Excerpt: Where else can one find such useless stuff / if not in youth’s ramshackle house?

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  • Translation - Weekly Features

    Simple Sorrows: Poems by Manglesh Dabral

    30 March 2025

    Nisarg Patel — Excerpt: The four poems translated here are perfect representations of Dabral’s poetics―in their language, their form, and the themes with which they engage.

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  • Translation - Weekly Features

    ‘Inheritance,’ ‘Women Unveiled’ and ‘Yearnings’

    5 January 2025

    Anupam Singh, translated from the Hindi by Areeb Ahmad — Excerpt: Indeed, only father’s left shoe remained. / Made of plastic, it could not rot / and kept waiting for feet that fit.

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Winter Weeklies

Edition 1, November 16: Saeed Ibrahim reminisces a trip to an Indian cantonment hill town in the early 60s, and Michael Smith’s early-90s Eastern Bloc adventures find him in Leningrad.

“GOING DOOLALLY!” — Memories of an Idyllic Childhood Vacation by Saeed Ibrahim

Drawing Back the Curtain: Russia 1991 & Eastern Europe 1992 (Part 2 – Leningrad) by Michael Smith

Edition 2, November 23: Sabyasachi Roy plumbs the depths of antagonists’ hearts, and Kathleen Fullerton finds humanity in the unlikeliest of places.

Unlikable Characters: Understanding the Appeal and Building Empathy by Sabyasachi Roy

Gratitude Found Inside the Fence by Kathleen Fullerton

Edition 3, November 30: Catherine Rossi commits unsung human acts like a beloved sitcom character, and Mike Nagel ponders the conjunction of humans and animals, trying to save the latter in the process.

Franklin is the Big Salad by Catherine Rossi

Man Vs. Wild by Mike Nagel

Edition 4, December 7: Sarah Das Gupta hitchhikes through Ireland and imperial history on her road to Limerick, and MJ Huntsgood has tips on how to keep writing and score a literary agent.

The Road to Limerick by Sarah Das Gupta

How to Go from Book Idea to Acquiring a Literary Agent in Less Than One Year by MJ Huntsgood

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Murals, guest-edited by François Bereaud

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upcoming weekly features

Panchami, Culture/Literature/Society, Dec 14
Michael Smith, Culture/Travel/ Photo Essay, Dec 14

Devin James Leonard, Humour, Dec 21
Sabyasachi Roy, Humour, Dec 21

Sayan Sarkar, Travelogue, Dec 28
Michael Smith, Culture/Travel/ Photo Essay, Dec 28

Rohit Karir, Humour, Jan 4
Sabyasachi Roy, Humour, Jan 4

Jeremy Turner, Travelogue, Jan 11
Michael Smith, Culture/Travel/ Photo Essay, Jan 11

Selina Sheth, Humour, Jan 18
Joy Dillon, Humour, Jan 18

Jiel Narvekar, Humour, Jan 25
Sharika Nair, Humour, Jan 25

Natalie Wolf, Humour, Feb 1
Aditi Dasgupta, Humour, Feb 1

Sabyasachi Roy, Humour/Culture, Feb 8
Aditi Patil, Travelogue, Feb 8

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