Author: Parcham Magazine
-
The Afghan Refugee Crisis
The Boy I was: The life I Had to leave Behind and the Dreams I carried — Mehrullah Rahmani I was lost in a dream, running through a vast city where English voices flowed around me like a river, blending into a melody I longed to understand. Towering buildings reached up toward a blue sky,…
-
Creative Non- Fiction by Saumya Sharma
On Eroding Termites and Unbidden Renewals In the seventh standard, I learnt something about life that would stay with me for the times to come. My closest friend was Ayesha and we both had decided to not participate in our school’s Annual Sports Day. Scheduled right before the Christmas break, it was a momentous event…
-
By Hena Naaz
A Bengali Migrant Woman on her way towards an Unknown Construction Site in Hyderabad On a summer evening at 4 pm, I came back to Hyderabad from home after a long summer vacation. After vacating the airport premises with my luggage, I was heading towards the roads to find a co-passenger cab. The roads outside…
-
September 2026: Films and Pop Culture
The Vampires Who Remember: Tanushka Roy Naxalism, Memory and the Haunted Kolkata of Indian Vampire Fiction There is something strange about Kolkata’s vampires. They do not simply emerge from crypts, abandoned mansions or European Gothic mythology. They emerge from a city with a particular relationship with its past. In two contemporary vampire narratives set in…
-
September 2026 Issue: Poetry
Betrayal of the Body : Durga Prasad Panda You spend a lifetime Looking for love Trying to make your body Worthy of its onslaughts Only to realise That the body Nurtured with so much care Is the first to betray you. It is a container Of life’s meaning, sleekly packaged And built to last, too,…
-
Short Fiction by Ghazifa Bashir
The Reliquary of Forgotten Harvests The cultivar antedated the nation that conspired to obliterate its annals. It traversed a frontier concealed within the pleats of a woman’s sari, enduring three weeks of exodus, desiccation, and the spectral dissolution of a homeland receding into oblivion behind her. That woman was my great-grandmother. She crossed the cataclysm…
-
The Pundit : Review by Semeen Ali
Title: The Pundit Author: Swapnamoy Chakraborty Translator: Adrija Ghosh Publisher: Moving Words, An imprint of The Antonym Collections Year: 2026 Pages: 310 Price: Rs. 599 ISBN: 978-93-47783-34-0 “Then where do I go? I flee from life to religion, and then from religion back to life. But what is it that I could do? What is…
-
Book Review : My Home is Dissent
Pooja Ugrani’s Poems & The Architecture of The Quotidian Review by Malini Bhattacharya Pooja Ugrani’s debut collection, published by Poetrywala, is one of those books that carry the soft luminosity of a gemstone. There is no need for it to announce itself ostentatiously. The cover does it, with the dancing figure in the stained glass…
-
The Hour of God : A Review
Title: The Hour of GodPoet: Vinita AgrawalPublisher : Red RiverPrice: 399/- INRYear of Publication: 2026 Vinita Agrawal’s collection of poems, The Hour of God, begins with an epigraph from the Upanishad’s which highlights the desire to find peace. This, along with the cryptic title of the collection might make some of the readers ponder over…
-
Concept Note : September 2026
The Age of Betrayal (Issue # 12) Editor : Chinki Sinha Last Date for Submission : 10th September‘ 2026 Concept Note For a long time, we have witnessed betrayals from those we have loved or those we have revered. The one that has achieved almost a mythical reputation is that of Julius Caesar being betrayed…
