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. We leave behind traces of what we are/ were while traversing a road, not knowing how our motion forward can lead us back to moments we had forgotten. As a source of connection and motion, a road binds and liberates us concurrently. This reminds us of Gloria Steinem’s thoughts about the transformative power of road:
“It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories — in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.”
On the road, the familiar is intertwined with the unfamiliar and the personal is connected with the collective. A roadside shop, a group of trees serving as margins of a road or some random signposts act as diverse characters in innumerable dramas played out by the road. Its ever-evolving attachment with human foot and vehicular rhythm makes it a space laden with memories, intrigues and connected histories. With an escalating visibility of road trips, adventure stories, capitalist investment on road aesthetics, road as a geographical entity and political space sustains vastness of human experience. How does one qualify the robust wholesomeness of roads? Where does one locate its connections with life itself? How has it historically been depicted in literature and culture? The editorial team is interested in considering submissions that depict various aspects of road/roads.
These are some of the issues that Parcham would like to explore and delve into for our upcoming issue due to be released by the end of March 2025. We invite Poems, Short stories (both written originally in English and in English Translation) and Creative Non-Fiction that address issues listed above. We also look forward to reading Book Reviews (Poetry/ Fiction/ Non- Fiction that have been published in the last year and a half).
The Last Date for submission for the Issue titled ROADS (March 2025) is March 5th 2025.
Editor: Dr. Suranjana Choudhury
Poetry: Please send in your previously unpublished poems (not more than 3) in a single MS Word with the subject line Poetry Submission at parchamonline@gmail.com
For Fiction/ Short Stories: Please keep in mind that short stories should be no more than 4,000 words. Send in the short story to parchamonline@gmail.com with the subject line Short Story Submission. The submissions should be in MS Word format.
For Articles on Films and Popular Culture: Please send us a short pitch before sending us the complete article to parchamonline@gmail.com the subject line Films and Popular Culture. We are hoping to look beyond run-of-the mill film reviews and delve more into the contact zone of films and society/culture in general. We’re particularly interested in articles on Non-Hindi and Independent cinema.
For Editorials/ Opinion Pieces/ Interviews and Book Reviews: For editorials and opinion pieces, please ensure that your submissions are free from unparliamentary language or religious or cultural bigotry. The editors have complete authority to reject a piece if they feel that they are not upholding the spirit of the magazine. Book reviews should be no more than 2,000 words. Send in your submissions to parchamonline@gmail.com
Photo Stories: Please send in your photographs (adhering to the theme of the Issue and not more than 5 and not less than 3) to parchamonline@gmail.com. The photos must be accompanied by a short write up/ captions and should be in the Jpeg format. This section is an OPEN SECTION where the submissions can range across a diverse subject field not restricted to the theme of the issue.
Copyright for articles, artwork and photographs published in this magazine shall rest with the authors, with first publication rights to Parcham. As the magazine follows an open access policy, articles or extracts from articles may be used by others, with proper attribution, for academic and non-commercial use. We reserve the right to publish the work in print in case we go for a print edition at a later time.
Note: If your submissions in any of the above mentioned sections have found a place on our platform in the previous two issues, we request you to please wait for another cycle (One Issue at most) before submitting again.
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