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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
    • Books
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    • Excerpts
    • Film/TV
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  • The Writer’s Gauntlet
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  • ASAP Corner - Conversations

    Rachel Turney In Conversation with Samantha Terrell

    24 April 2026

    Poetry doesn’t wait for life—it was right there with me, battling alongside me through a tenuous and vulnerable time. And I’m grateful for that.

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    Excerpt from This is Where We Say Goodbye, Howard McKenzie-Murray (ISBN 9781760996437, Fremantle Press, 2026)

    25 May 2026

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

    25 May 2026

    “The Poetry of Inner Landscapes: Neera Kashyap’s The Art of Unboxing” by Anjana Basu

    22 May 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    Of Rain and Chaandi — A Review of Saraswati Nagpal’s Drench Me in Silver

    15 March 2026

    Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad — Excerpt: Saraswati’s debut collection introduces a distinct sensibility that glides smoothly between the personal and the mythic, giving adequate scale and weight to both dimensions.

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    Excerpt from This is Where We Say Goodbye, Howard McKenzie-Murray (ISBN 9781760996437, Fremantle Press, 2026)

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

    25 May 2026

    “The Poetry of Inner Landscapes: Neera Kashyap’s The Art of Unboxing” by Anjana Basu

    22 May 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    Bengal by Way of the Bayou: A Review of Shome Dasgupta’s Cajun South Brown Folk

    23 February 2026

    Nina Miller — Excerpt: Dasgupta invites us into his world, introduces us to the food, the scents, the language, the music, and generously lets us linger long past the crickets have gone to sleep.

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    Excerpt from This is Where We Say Goodbye, Howard McKenzie-Murray (ISBN 9781760996437, Fremantle Press, 2026)

    25 May 2026

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

    25 May 2026

    “The Poetry of Inner Landscapes: Neera Kashyap’s The Art of Unboxing” by Anjana Basu

    22 May 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    The Other Epics of India: Gurram Jashuva’s Gabbilam

    2 February 2026

    Nisarg Patel — Excerpt: Considering how deeply epics shape our day-to-day life, it comes as somewhat of a surprise to realize how narrow and limited our knowledge is when it comes to epic stories.

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    Excerpt from This is Where We Say Goodbye, Howard McKenzie-Murray (ISBN 9781760996437, Fremantle Press, 2026)

    25 May 2026

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

    25 May 2026

    “The Poetry of Inner Landscapes: Neera Kashyap’s The Art of Unboxing” by Anjana Basu

    22 May 2026
  • Humour - Weekly Features

    ‘Booked’ and ‘Java by my side’

    4 January 2026

    Rohit Karir — Excerpt: My heart skips a beat when a paragraph grabs hold of me, and the search ends.

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    “Wait, FUCKSHITPISSDIE isn’t a Beatles Cover Band?” by Dan Dellechiaie

    24 May 2026

    “Monkey Business” by Ed Meek

    24 May 2026

    We’ll Be Fine, Probably

    17 May 2026
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