Sabyasachi Roy — Excerpt: Unlikable characters are a breath of fresh, if slightly toxic, air, in a world full of flawless Instagram influencers and squeaky-clean heroes.
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Gratitude Found Inside the Fence
Kathleen Fullerton — Excerpt: Coffee brews in an old industrial pot, large upon the counter in this long open room optimistically called “the day room.”
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“GOING DOOLALLY!” — Memories of an Idyllic Childhood Vacation
Saeed Ibrahim — Excerpt: The smell of fodder and hay wafted through the air as the train puffed into the quaint little Deolali Railway Station.
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Drawing Back the Curtain: Russia 1991 & Eastern Europe 1992 (Part 2 – Leningrad)
Michael Smith — Excerpt: From time to time during this overnight journey we passed through areas of very bright lights shining deliberately on the train. I had been warned about this before we left for Russia.
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Farrukh Dhondy’s Rumi: Bridging Mysticism, Music, and Modernity
Wani Nazir — Excerpt: They are a musical, rhythmic, and symbolic world, and every metaphor has a spiritual, cultural, and cosmic meaning. Translating Rumi might either dampen the original’s exuberant essence or sever its strong ties to Persian and Sufi culture.