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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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  • Craft - Weekly Features

    Writing through Disenfranchised Grief

    1 December 2024

    Marie Cloutier — Excerpt: I purchased a notebook and a pen and thought how I might fill the book.

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    How to Go from Book Idea to Acquiring a Literary Agent in Less Than One Year

    7 December 2025

    Unlikable Characters: Understanding the Appeal and Building Empathy

    23 November 2025

    Writing as Bull Riding

    21 September 2025
  • Culture - Film/TV - Weekly Features

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

    1 December 2024

    Mary Buchanan — Excerpt: The only question left for you to consider now is what happens when Mickey shows his shadows—his deeper, fallible, more steeped-in-sin-human qualities—over what audiences have been conditioned to expect.

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    “Lord Shiva in Singapore” by Pavle Radonić

    27 September 2026

    “In Search of Lost Spectres” by Paromita Patranobish

    27 September 2026

    “The Day You Came” by McLord Selasi

    30 August 2026
  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    Smells Like Home

    17 November 2024

    Parul Desai Shah — Excerpt: “A buyer said the house smelled. Like spices,” Nina stated with dramatic condemnation. This was a bullet wound to my family’s soul.

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    “Lord Shiva in Singapore” by Pavle Radonić

    27 September 2026

    “In Search of Lost Spectres” by Paromita Patranobish

    27 September 2026

    “The Day You Came” by McLord Selasi

    30 August 2026
  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    Satyanarayan Katha

    17 November 2024

    Jahnavi Gogoi — Excerpt: At one point in my childhood, I declare that I am an atheist. I do not believe in god. Everyone is horrified.

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    “Lord Shiva in Singapore” by Pavle Radonić

    27 September 2026

    “In Search of Lost Spectres” by Paromita Patranobish

    27 September 2026

    “The Day You Came” by McLord Selasi

    30 August 2026
  • Travelogue - Weekly Features

    Salt, Shadows and the Tempest — A Drifting Odyssey

    20 October 2024

    Katha Haldar and Sarthak Das — Excerpt: As we gazed out of the bus window, the road unfolded before our eyes. Sometimes it veered, entering the heart of a distant village.

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    “Journey to the north-eastern end of Deutschland” by Subham Mukherjee

    16 August 2026

    “Peaks, Pine and Peace — A Dream Getaway at Bahu Village” by Urmi Chakravorty

    16 August 2026

    “French One, Seven Times” by Curtis C. Morgan

    26 July 2026
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Pavle Radonić has an illuminating spiritual encounter in Singapore, and Paromita Patranobish pens a cultural critique of the ghosts of Bengal.

Lord Shiva in Singapore by Pavle Radonić

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