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  • All Issues
    • 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
      • 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
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  • The Writer’s Gauntlet
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  • ASAP Corner - Books

    “Grief, Love and Laughter: Howard McKenzie-Murray’s This is Where We Say Goodbye” by Megan Kimber

    1 July 2026

    It is character-driven humanity that McKenzie-Murray captures. The broken beauty of a falling feather or an unsent letter. The loneliness of a suburban laundromat.

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    “Gentle Reminders on Responsible Tourism: Mani Mahesh Aurora’s Iya and the Map of Gentle Journeys” by Sunny Gavhane

    22 June 2026

    “Exploring an Existential Paradox: Mitra Samal’s Silence Has a Sound” by Snehaprava Das

    17 June 2026

    “The Curse of the Sequel Gets the Devil This Time” by Rajvi

    16 June 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    “Gentle Reminders on Responsible Tourism: Mani Mahesh Aurora’s Iya and the Map of Gentle Journeys” by Sunny Gavhane

    22 June 2026

    Mani Mahesh Aurora beautifully explains environmental terminology with excerpts from Iya’s diary and her father’s blog, which makes the read engaging and not preachy.

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    “Grief, Love and Laughter: Howard McKenzie-Murray’s This is Where We Say Goodbye” by Megan Kimber

    1 July 2026

    “Exploring an Existential Paradox: Mitra Samal’s Silence Has a Sound” by Snehaprava Das

    17 June 2026

    “The Curse of the Sequel Gets the Devil This Time” by Rajvi

    16 June 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    “Exploring an Existential Paradox: Mitra Samal’s Silence Has a Sound” by Snehaprava Das

    17 June 2026

    Mitra Samal’s collection reads like a paradox coming alive… to trace a bond, a link across conflicting emotions, to discover a connection between opposites, a pattern in shambles, and a poise in disbalance.

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    “Grief, Love and Laughter: Howard McKenzie-Murray’s This is Where We Say Goodbye” by Megan Kimber

    1 July 2026

    “Gentle Reminders on Responsible Tourism: Mani Mahesh Aurora’s Iya and the Map of Gentle Journeys” by Sunny Gavhane

    22 June 2026

    “The Curse of the Sequel Gets the Devil This Time” by Rajvi

    16 June 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    “Understanding Humiliation: Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection” by Riya Panghal

    10 June 2026

    Rejection is not your regular book. Very soon into it, you’d be presented with a coltish gaze by the author, checking your audacity of going deeper in the book.

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    “Grief, Love and Laughter: Howard McKenzie-Murray’s This is Where We Say Goodbye” by Megan Kimber

    1 July 2026

    “Gentle Reminders on Responsible Tourism: Mani Mahesh Aurora’s Iya and the Map of Gentle Journeys” by Sunny Gavhane

    22 June 2026

    “Exploring an Existential Paradox: Mitra Samal’s Silence Has a Sound” by Snehaprava Das

    17 June 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    “The Road Taken: On Perumal Murugan’s Neduneram” by Kathiravan Annamalai

    25 May 2026

    There are only two stories, John Gardner once wrote—a person goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town. Perumal Murugan’s Neduneram (A Long Time) is both.

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    Related Posts

    “Grief, Love and Laughter: Howard McKenzie-Murray’s This is Where We Say Goodbye” by Megan Kimber

    1 July 2026

    “Gentle Reminders on Responsible Tourism: Mani Mahesh Aurora’s Iya and the Map of Gentle Journeys” by Sunny Gavhane

    22 June 2026

    “Exploring an Existential Paradox: Mitra Samal’s Silence Has a Sound” by Snehaprava Das

    17 June 2026
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