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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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    • 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
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  • ASAP Corner - Books

    A Joycean Romp through Belfast: Hanna Nielson’s Did You Pay the Piper Man?

    4 May 2026

    Mark Mullan — Excerpt: Hanna Nielson’s debut is a joyous Joycean romp through a single wintery night in post-Troubles Belfast that asks: If all of life is a play, do we write our own lines?

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  • ASAP Corner - Books

    A Kaleidoscope of Memories: Anjana Basu’s The House the Press Built

    17 April 2026

    Vijayluxmi Bose — Excerpt: The Press published Gitanjali, Shishu Bharati, and the iconic magazine Saraswati, which gave rise to the colloquial Hindi that is spoken to date in Northern India.

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  • ASAP Corner - Books

    The Call of the Hills: Ruskin Bond’s Scenes from the Magic Mountain

    15 April 2026

    Anjana Basu — Excerpt: Bond left the hills as little as he could, and the foothills of the Himalayas, with their myths and natural beauty, form the backdrop of his writing.

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  • ASAP Corner - Books

    The Real Thing in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing

    9 April 2026

    Kathiravan Annamalai — Excerpt: The Real Thing challenges its audience to figure out what is genuine and real amidst different layers of theatricality and contrasting viewpoints.

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    8 July 2026

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

    1 July 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    Fitting Into Memory — A Review of Molly Gaudry’s Fit Into Me

    19 March 2026

    Shome Dasgupta — Excerpt: Gaudry plants a myriad of beings, both on the pages and in the author herself, or rather, authors herself. The readers are just serving as witnesses to it all.

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