Call for Submissions

“Justice”– December 2025 Issue

The world is standing on its toes at a dangerous precipice today. If we need to tip-toe back from our collective annihilation, some difficult conversations must be had.

This could be one of them.

Call for Submissions: Parcham July 2025

Parcham ‘s July 2025 Issue will be an Open Issue. We invite previously unpublished Poems, original Short Stories (In English), translations of Short Stories, Non-Fiction pieces, Editorials, Photo-Stories and articles on Films and Popular Culture from interested contributors. Send in your submissions for the July Issue by the 5th of July 2025 to parchamonline@gmail.com. Please follow the guidelines below and in…

Call For Submissions– ROADS (March 2025 Issue)

Submission for the March Issue is currently closed. We thank the contributors for sending us their work. We are working on the review and since we are a small team, it might take a couple of weeks for us to get back to you. We look forward to bringing out an engaging and stimulating issue. Concept Note ROADS Long and winding, smooth and short, or rough and edgy – oftentimes roads make and unmake us.…

Call For Submissions: August 2024 Issue

Your mother’s heartbeat when you’re still inside her womb. The unmistakable coo of a koel, a song sparrow’s irresistible spring song, a cardinal’s earnest tweets — each a symphony so sweet to wake up to that, to paraphrase one of Rabindranath Tagore’s songs, it makes the very sleep it breaks, coveted. Snatches of a keertan…

Voices: Call For Submissions for the August Issue.

 VOICES “The world is full of paper, Write to me.”—Agha Shahid Ali. To have a chance and an opportunity to have one’s voice heard is sometimes a matter of privilege. A privilege that often, we can take for granted. What does it mean to put forward one’s voice into the world—a voice underlining a credo,…

Call For Submissions for the Third Issue.

In one of his poems, Wordsworth argued that a glimpse and impulse of the vernal wood taught us more about Man and moral right and wrong than all the wise and the learned could possibly think of. And yet, we have been slow in realising that we have taken Nature for granted. The recent crisis…

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Call For Submissions: October Issue

Call For Submissions- October Issue The world as we know it is for some time now been continually fraught with conflicts of different kinds. Ironically, with globalisation and social media, certain boundaries were meant to shrink. But instead, greater fractions and factions have appeared on the horizon, so much so, that most of us have…

Call For Submissions: August 2024 Issue

Your mother’s heartbeat when you’re still inside her womb. The unmistakable coo of a koel, a song sparrow’s irresistible spring song, a cardinal’s earnest tweets — each a symphony so sweet to wake up to that, to paraphrase one of Rabindranath Tagore’s songs, it makes the very sleep it breaks, coveted. Snatches of a keertan…

Calling for Guest Editors

Parcham invites its readers and contributors to guest edit future Issues starting June 2025. We look forward to receiving proposals highlighting the thematic strand around which the issue will revolve. The Proposal, of approximately 500 words should be mailed to the official Parcham e-mail id at parchamonline@gmail.com. The proposals, once received would go through the editorial board for approval and the decision will be communicated via email and announced on social media. The decision of the Editorial Board will be…

Calling for Guest Editors

Parcham invites its readers and contributors to guest edit future Issues starting June 2025. We look forward to receiving proposals highlighting the thematic strand around which the issue will revolve. The Proposal, of approximately 500 words should be mailed to the official Parcham e-mail id at parchamonline@gmail.com. The proposals, once received would go through the…