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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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      • Sports
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    • Humour
    • Photo Essay
    • Translation
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    • Book Review (Till Feb 2025)
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  • ASAP Corner
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  • ASAP Corner - Magazines/Journals

    Preserving the Memories of Oppression: A Review of “We Are Here: Writings by Afghan Women”

    23 October 2025

    Rahul Singh — Excerpt: Why are these accounts important? Because most of what we get to read about this region concerns geopolitics and hence, is hardly human. What they lack is the nuance of lives lived by the most repressed section of the society.

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    “Reimagining Tagore’s Women — Three Women: A Graphic Novel by Isheeta Ganguly, Illustrated by Chirantan Sarkar” by Anjana Basu

    19 July 2026

    “a gift of attention: K Ramesh’s spinning pinwheels” by Geetha Ravichandran

    8 July 2026

    “Grief, Love and Laughter: Howard McKenzie-Murray’s This is Where We Say Goodbye” by Megan Kimber

    1 July 2026
  • Culture - Music - Mythology - Society - Theatre - Weekly Features

    The Heroines in Hadestown: Objects of Desire versus Agents of Affection

    17 August 2025

    Z. M. Asafzah — Excerpt: The story is a retelling of the “love story” of Orpheus and Eurydice, but entwines the Greek gods Hades and Persephone and their “love” story into its lore.

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    “The Date” by Arpita Bhawal

    26 July 2026

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

    26 July 2026

    “Camel’s in the House” by Maureen Tai

    19 July 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Film/TV

    To Bee or Not to Bee? — Bee Movie’s Insight into Artistic Interpretation

    16 May 2025

    Gabby Woehr — Excerpt: Bee Movie’s most important takeaway can be debated at length, as the movie speaks to class divides, work culture, and environmentalism, among other issues.

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    “Reimagining Tagore’s Women — Three Women: A Graphic Novel by Isheeta Ganguly, Illustrated by Chirantan Sarkar” by Anjana Basu

    19 July 2026

    “a gift of attention: K Ramesh’s spinning pinwheels” by Geetha Ravichandran

    8 July 2026

    “Grief, Love and Laughter: Howard McKenzie-Murray’s This is Where We Say Goodbye” by Megan Kimber

    1 July 2026
  • Book Review - Weekly Features

    Heart-touching and resplendent haiku — Daipayan Nair’s the ten hands of a fuchka seller

    20 October 2024

    Anita Nahal — Excerpt: As Santōka Taneda, Japanese author and haiku poet, expressed quite rightly, “Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.”

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    Fishing without a Bicycle in a Changing Country — Prabal Kumar Basu’s A Fish without a Bicycle

    19 January 2025

    Books in the Time of War — V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night

    5 January 2025

    Riverine Verses — Lakshmi Kannan’s Nadistuti

    13 October 2024

This Week

Arpita Bhawal takes matters of the heart to the park, and Curtis C. Morgan has a Michelin-starred honeymoon in 1970s France.

The Date by Arpita Bhawal

French One, Seven Times by Curtis C. Morgan

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