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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)
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    • Issue 1 (April 2023)
  • Weekly Features
    • Craft
    • Culture
      • Film/TV
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      • Literature
      • Music
      • Mythology
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  • ASAP Corner - Books

    Paper Plane Takes Off: Review of Nifraz Rifaz’s Soaring Debut

    23 December 2025

    Sadie Kaye — Excerpt: Rifaz’s startling gift as a writer is to make the heaviest of emotions feel miraculously airborne without sacrificing their weight. The result is a poignant, beautifully crafted narrative that elevates and uplifts.

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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

    Under the Same Moon: Seeing Ourselves in Vibha Batra’s Spotless

    23 December 2025

    Wani Nazir — Excerpt: Spotless isn’t about pain. It’s a coming-of-age story, a journal, and a cosmic poem all at once. The narrator’s voice is sharp, self-aware, and funny when you least expect it. You can taste it and feel the muck.

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

    17 June 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    Translating Melancholy — Sabika Abbas Naqvi’s Rendition of Rahman Abbas’s Rohzin, or The Melancholy of the Soul

    22 December 2025

    Wani Nazir — Excerpt: Naqvi’s translation doesn’t merely change Abbas’s prose into English; it also brings back the depth of Rohzin’s pain, its remarkable beauty, and its intellectual complexity.

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

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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
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    Chronicling a Vanishing World Between Living and Loving — Bhagirath Mishra’s Charanbhumi: Echoes from the Grazing Lands

    19 December 2025

    Ritam Dutta — Excerpt: The novel’s prose, as rendered in English by Manikuntala Dasgupta, carries the scent of its soil. Her translation has a rare transparency—it does not attempt to embellish but allows the natural music of the original to flow through.

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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

    A Haven at the Roof of the World — Review of Anuradha Roy’s Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya

    19 December 2025

    Anjana Basu — Excerpt: Unlike Ruskin Bond, Roy’s love of the hills is not unqualified. She sees the monsoons as a season of stoicism — life in the hills, in fact, despite the wild beauty all around demands a certain acceptance from all those who live there.

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

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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
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