Sutanuka Ghosh Roy — Excerpt: Changing, Unchanging invites the readers to respond to the older and newer poems of the poet, the storytelling on life, and delves deep into the disturbing possibilities at the intersection of the two.
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Off the Main Road
Jacelyn Yap — Excerpt: The teahouse district in Kanazawa, now a popular spot for traditional sweets and crafts, is a well-preserved historical geiko district.
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Drawing Back the Curtain: Russia 1991 & Eastern Europe 1992 (Part 1 – Moscow)
Michael Smith — Excerpt: Following the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, visiting former Eastern Bloc countries became possible, and increasingly attractive.
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Unmaking and Remaking the Self: Reading Meena Kandasamy’s Exquisite Cadavers
Wani Nazir — Excerpt: Exquisite Cadavers is good because it doesn’t try to be perfect. It is like works that don’t fit in a box.
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Phantoms of the Hills: Legends of Garhwal’s Big Cats
Ayushi Kainthola — Excerpt: One of the most vivid memories of my childhood is deeply associated with the big cat–human conflict in Uttarakhand.