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Literature, Culture & Arts | Estd. 2022

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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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    • Issue 1 (April 2023)
  • Weekly Features
    • Craft
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      • Faith
      • Film/TV
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      • Wildlife
    • Humour
    • Photo Essay
    • Translation
    • Travelogue
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  • ASAP Corner
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  • 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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    “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

    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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    “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
  • 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.

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    Related Posts

    “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
  • 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.

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    Related Posts

    “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
  • 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.

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    Related Posts

    “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
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