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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)
    • Issue 2 (October 2023)
    • 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
    • Magazines/Journals
    • Music
    • Remembrance
  • The Writer’s Gauntlet
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  • Who We Are
    • Founding Editors
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    • Recognitions
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  • ASAP Corner - Magazines/Journals

    “Review: The Candyman’s Trumpet Issue 14 – Afghan Women Poets” by Jan Lee

    18 August 2026

    Shikha Sawhney Lamba has assembled dozens of poems and artworks by 25 Afghan women and girls into a volume that shouts with defiance, mourns deeply, and burns with the necessity to endure.

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    Related Posts

    “The Strangeness Within: On Rajyabardhan Dhal Mahapatra’s Short Stories” by Kathiravan Annamalai

    25 August 2026

    “Balan: The Boy – Some Childhoods Are Not Remembered, They Are Mourned” by Neetha Prasad

    11 August 2026

    “Babydoll Dresses and Dirty Minds: How Art Suffers from Perversion” by Gabby Woehr

    7 August 2026
  • Travelogue - Weekly Features

    “Journey to the north-eastern end of Deutschland” by Subham Mukherjee

    16 August 2026

    I had planned a trip to Seebad Heringsdorf. It’s a coastal town right next to the Polish border. It was my partner’s birthday. And this was our first time in Europe.

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    “Peaks, Pine and Peace — A Dream Getaway at Bahu Village” by Urmi Chakravorty

    16 August 2026

    “French One, Seven Times” by Curtis C. Morgan

    26 July 2026

    “Shinkansen Diaries: Discovering Japan by Rail (Part 4 – Kyoto)” by Michael Smith

    5 July 2026
  • Travelogue - Weekly Features

    “Peaks, Pine and Peace — A Dream Getaway at Bahu Village” by Urmi Chakravorty

    16 August 2026

    Bahu village is a sleepy hamlet where the snow-crested Tirthan peaks whisper ancient secrets to the vast vistas of wilderness wrapping them.

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    Related Posts

    “Journey to the north-eastern end of Deutschland” by Subham Mukherjee

    16 August 2026

    “French One, Seven Times” by Curtis C. Morgan

    26 July 2026

    “Shinkansen Diaries: Discovering Japan by Rail (Part 4 – Kyoto)” by Michael Smith

    5 July 2026
  • The Writer's Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye

    How Far Up The Glass Escalator Can Mediocre White Man With An MFA Fall? Pretty Fucking Far!

    13 August 2026

    I name my characters after people such as the guy who rang up the cumin at the cash register who is himself really into Babylonian esotericism but not so much that he changed his name to Zoltan ben’Marduk or anything.

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    The Brain Behind 17 Types of Feedback You Should Never Give Senior Colleagues If You Want to Be Successful.

    27 August 2026

    Art Witch Lindsey McAlister Accidentally Starts Glitter-Fuelled Revolution in Teen Mental Health! The Vibes Are Immaculate But Impossible To Vacuum.

    20 August 2026

    Kelly Field Trained For A Decade To Understand Human Behaviour; Remains Completely Baffled By Her Own.

    6 August 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Film/TV

    “Balan: The Boy – Some Childhoods Are Not Remembered, They Are Mourned” by Neetha Prasad

    11 August 2026

    Balan, the boy, never really comes of age. But his innocence does. It becomes older than he ever will, carrying the burden of knowing what no child should have to know. That, perhaps, is the deepest sorrow that the film leaves us with.

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    Related Posts

    “The Strangeness Within: On Rajyabardhan Dhal Mahapatra’s Short Stories” by Kathiravan Annamalai

    25 August 2026

    “Review: The Candyman’s Trumpet Issue 14 – Afghan Women Poets” by Jan Lee

    18 August 2026

    “Babydoll Dresses and Dirty Minds: How Art Suffers from Perversion” by Gabby Woehr

    7 August 2026
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