Author: Parcham Magazine
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September 2026: Fiction
Like The Same Woman You Have Slept With: Arjun Razdan Cutback to Goa, India, November 2024 I enter a barber-shop, and invariably the conversation turns to greens. He explains to me what Bathua ka saag is. When two people talk about greens from cultures that appreciate them, it is like two men talking about the…
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September 2026: Photo Stories
Life Beyond Desire : Kurma Gramam : Suryamitra Chaganti The documentary was photographed in Kurma Gramam, Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, and documents the everyday life of a community that has chosen to live with basic necessities and in close harmony with nature. The community lives without electricity, modern technology and regular transportation. They grow their own…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
