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Literature, Culture & Arts | Estd. 2022

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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)
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    • Issue 1 (April 2023)
  • Weekly Features
    • Craft
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      • Film/TV
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      • Music
      • Mythology
      • Satire
      • Science
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      • Wildlife
    • 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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    “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
  • 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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    “Is productivity a socially acceptable anaesthetic?” by Shristi Das

    14 June 2026

    “it’s only a wheelbarrow” by Doğa Kaplan

    14 June 2026

    “The Paan Daan Trail” by Saeed Ibrahim

    31 May 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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    “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
  • 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

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