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March 2026: Featuring James A. Greensmith
In “attempting to find in motion what was lost in space” : James A Greensmith in conversation with Ipsita Deb “I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further – for time is the longest distance between two places… The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn…
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Fiction and Editorial: March 2026
Editor’s Note: Aditee Sharma “We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.” Vandana Shiva This claim made by Shiva calls for the urgency of the ecological crisis and the need to find solutions…
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Poetry: March 2026
Issue Editor’s Note : Aditee Sharma “We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.” Vandana Shiva This claim made by Shiva calls for the urgency of the ecological crisis and the need to…
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Book Review: Medusa Says It All
Reviewed by : Jhilam Adhikary While reading T.S. Eliot talking of John Donne in his now famous essay The Metaphysical Poets, I came across the part where he praises Donne’s works, which frankly, opens the door for a renewed interest in Metaphysical Poetry early in the 20th century. To put it simply, quoting the line,…
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Short Fiction: Bindi
Bindi by Purav Pradhan Glass beads tied into a thread makes up a necklace on Bindi’s chest. There are glittering lights and the ghastly bokeh on the mosaic of the changing room. Hollow muffled voices space the room like smoke infiltrating the humid atmosphere. The smell of cheaply scented make-up and sweet lip balm cakes on…
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A Death in the Forest: A Review
Paromita Goswami’s short stories are resplendent, each shining in their own light of local language and deep cultural sensibilities of the native and indigenous population of the forests of Chandrapur, Maharashtra.
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Semeen Ali Reviews The Opposite Bank and Other Poems
Poet: Ramchandra Pramanik Translator: Sreejata Paul Publisher: Antonym Collections Poetry often emerges from two impulses. One is deeply personal, where the poet dives into their own experiences, bringing forth pearls of wisdom from an intimate well, placing the self at the heart of the poem. The other is observational, where the poet turns their gaze…
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Review of Language Has No Homeland
Language Has No Homeland Poet: Aditi Dasgupta Reviewed by: Malini Bhattacharya Aditi Dasgupta’s Language Has No Homeland is a slim book, albeit an inventive and cadenced one. This is a collection of poems that builds bridges across languages and the unique emotional semantics that each represents. We meet Bengali, Tamil, Urdu, Hindi, Marathi, Assamese, Bodo,…
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Book Review: Undecember
Review of Amit Shankar Saha’s Undecember: The Thirteenth Month Reviewed by Subashish Bhattacharjee In Undecember: The Thirteenth Month, Amit Shankar Saha extends the calendrical imagination that shaped his earlier volume, Etesian::Barahmasi, into a liminal poetic space: an intercalary month, a surplus of time composed of “stolen days.” Conceived as the lunar adjustment that reconciles discrepancy,…
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