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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)
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    • Humour
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  • Culture - Photo Essay - Travelogue - Weekly Features

    Drawing Back the Curtain: Russia 1991 & Eastern Europe 1992 (Part 1 – Moscow)

    12 October 2025

    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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    27 September 2026

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    27 September 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    Unmaking and Remaking the Self: Reading Meena Kandasamy’s Exquisite Cadavers

    7 October 2025

    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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    “The Geography of Unfinished Memory: Trauma, Belonging and the Ethics of Return in Umair Ahmed Khan’s The Valley of Unfinished Songs” by Wani Nazir

    8 October 2026

    “The Unease Beneath the Ordinary: Review of Geet Chaturvedi’s Scent of the Nameless, tr. Anita Gopalan” by Tarang Sinha

    2 October 2026

    “As Strong as a Yak: Review of Jess Butterworth’s Running on the Roof of the World” by Sandhyaa Venkatachalam

    2 October 2026
  • Culture - Weekly Features - Wildlife

    Phantoms of the Hills: Legends of Garhwal’s Big Cats

    5 October 2025

    Ayushi Kainthola — Excerpt: One of the most vivid memories of my childhood is deeply associated with the big cat–human conflict in Uttarakhand.

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    “The Wife in the Corner Frame” by Namrata

    4 October 2026

    “Lord Shiva in Singapore” by Pavle Radonić

    27 September 2026

    “In Search of Lost Spectres” by Paromita Patranobish

    27 September 2026
  • Culture - Food - Weekly Features

    Few Grains of Sesame

    5 October 2025

    Shobha Ramani — Excerpt: I had never viewed sesame through the lens of grief until that year.

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    “The Wife in the Corner Frame” by Namrata

    4 October 2026

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    “In Search of Lost Spectres” by Paromita Patranobish

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  • Issues - Updates

    Fictile Feelings (Poetry Special, October 2025)

    3 October 2025

    We are pleased to announce the release of Fictile Feelings, our inaugural Poetry Special, guest-edited by Sanjeev Sethi, with 95 poems from poets worldwide.

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    15 July 2026

    The Many Lives of Atlas A (Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition)

    31 January 2026
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