Skip to content
THE HOOGHLY REVIEW

Literature, Culture & Arts | Estd. 2022

  • 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
    • Conversations
    • Excerpts
    • Film/TV
    • Magazines/Journals
    • Music
    • Remembrance
  • The Writer’s Gauntlet
  • Submissions
  • Who We Are
    • Founding Editors
    • Guest Editors
    • Recognitions
    • Nominations
    • Privacy Policy
  • 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
    • Conversations
    • Excerpts
    • Film/TV
    • Magazines/Journals
    • Music
    • Remembrance
  • The Writer’s Gauntlet
  • Submissions
  • Who We Are
    • Founding Editors
    • Guest Editors
    • Recognitions
    • Nominations
    • Privacy Policy
  • 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.

    Continue Reading

    Related Posts

    “Trial by Trial” by Michael Smith

    7 June 2026

    “In Bed with Sadie” by Sadie Kaye

    7 June 2026

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

    24 May 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.

    Continue Reading

    Related Posts

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

    17 June 2026

    “The Curse of the Sequel Gets the Devil This Time” by Rajvi

    16 June 2026

    Vijayalakshmi Sridhar in conversation with Shobha Viswanath

    15 June 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    Echoes of Memory, Nature and Rebirth in Santosh Bakaya’s At Thirty Minutes Past One

    11 December 2025

    Wani Nazir — Excerpt: Santosh Bakaya’s poetic mini-epic is an evocation of the dreamscape bathed in lost garden scents and memory whorls, and the rhythms of a haunted, healing world.

    Continue Reading

    Related Posts

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

    17 June 2026

    “The Curse of the Sequel Gets the Devil This Time” by Rajvi

    16 June 2026

    Vijayalakshmi Sridhar in conversation with Shobha Viswanath

    15 June 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    Farrukh Dhondy’s Rumi: Bridging Mysticism, Music, and Modernity

    13 November 2025

    Wani Nazir — Excerpt: They are a musical, rhythmic, and symbolic world, and every metaphor has a spiritual, cultural, and cosmic meaning. Translating Rumi might either dampen the original’s exuberant essence or sever its strong ties to Persian and Sufi culture.

    Continue Reading

    Related Posts

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

    17 June 2026

    “The Curse of the Sequel Gets the Devil This Time” by Rajvi

    16 June 2026

    Vijayalakshmi Sridhar in conversation with Shobha Viswanath

    15 June 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Books

    Three Decades in Verse — A Review of Anju Makhija’s Changing, Unchanging: New Selected Poems (1995-2023)

    16 October 2025

    Sutanuka Ghosh Roy — Excerpt: Changing, Unchanging invites the readers to respond to the older and newer poems of the poet, the storytelling on life, and delves deep into the disturbing possibilities at the intersection of the two.

    Continue Reading

    Related Posts

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

    17 June 2026

    “The Curse of the Sequel Gets the Devil This Time” by Rajvi

    16 June 2026

    Vijayalakshmi Sridhar in conversation with Shobha Viswanath

    15 June 2026
 Older Posts
Newer Posts 

This Week

Shristi Das studies the malady of perfection, and Doğa Kaplan sees things our lives depend on.

Is productivity a socially acceptable anaesthetic? by Shristi Das

it’s only a wheelbarrow by Doğa Kaplan

What’s hot

THR in Print

The Many Lives of Atlas A, Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition

“Breasts” by Allison Field Bell published in Issue 4, chosen for Best Microfiction 2026 by Diane Seuss

Fictile Feelings, guest-edited by Sanjeev Sethi

Editors’ Interview: Bookbot Theory | S2E29 | How Literary Magazines Shape Author Branding | YouTube | Spotify | Amazon Music

Welcome to The Beehive!

Follow us on Substack!

Murals, guest-edited by François Bereaud

current submission calls

ASAP Corner — Free, Fast, Rolling

listed/indexed on

Monthly Archives

© The Hooghly Review (2022-onwards)
Graceful Theme by Optima Themes