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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)
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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Flush Fiction

    15 February 2026

    Sadie Kaye — Excerpt: Daddy had salmonella poisoning, but he didn’t know it.

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    “C8H10N4O2” by Michael Smith

    25 October 2026

    “a wife’s complaint” and other poems by Low Kian Seh

    25 October 2026

    “How to be a Good Nigerian” and other poems by Hassan Ismail Adekunle

    18 October 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    Preserving a Heritage: Sita Bhaskar’s Rukmini Aunty and the R.K. Narayan Fan Club

    3 February 2026

    Anjana Basu — Excerpt: [The] mix of literary history into the present-day narrative adds charm and layers to the book. One could call it an attempt to revive the interest in Narayan with a younger generation of readers.

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    “When the River Remembers: Umar Nizarudeen’s The Moplah Speaks of the Rivers” by Haimanti Bagchi

    17 October 2026

    “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
  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Aghori Monthly — Issue VII

    1 February 2026

    Aditi Dasgupta — Excerpt: At the immediate outskirts of this small speck on the map, there lived a sadhu of ambiguous age and unmistakable odour.

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    “C8H10N4O2” by Michael Smith

    25 October 2026

    “a wife’s complaint” and other poems by Low Kian Seh

    25 October 2026

    “How to be a Good Nigerian” and other poems by Hassan Ismail Adekunle

    18 October 2026
  • Humour - Weekly Features

    They Cloned Jesus

    1 February 2026

    Natalie Wolf — Excerpt: When the video is released, Jesus is already twenty-one. Up until that point, he was being raised in a lab underground.

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    “C8H10N4O2” by Michael Smith

    25 October 2026

    “a wife’s complaint” and other poems by Low Kian Seh

    25 October 2026

    “How to be a Good Nigerian” and other poems by Hassan Ismail Adekunle

    18 October 2026
  • Humour - Weekly Features

    The Red Car

    25 January 2026

    Sharika Nair — Excerpt: “Mama, can you buy me a new car? A new red car?”

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    “C8H10N4O2” by Michael Smith

    25 October 2026

    “a wife’s complaint” and other poems by Low Kian Seh

    25 October 2026

    “How to be a Good Nigerian” and other poems by Hassan Ismail Adekunle

    18 October 2026
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