Author: Parcham Magazine
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Fiction and Fiction in Translation: July 2025
Travelling Light : Ranu Uniyal Staring at the carpeted floor, papered walls and empty ceiling of an unknown house, a lump dislodges itself at the pitch of my throat and eyes flash with an insipid glare. Brown and pink of the room mixes staunchly with the deep grey of my heart and ripples of intrepid…
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On Parasite and Existentialism: July 2025
Analyzing Parasite through the lens of Existentialism Existentialists believe we are born into existence and form our identities through our choices and actions. According to them, the world is meaningless, and human beings must confront the anxiety and absurdity that come with this realization. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a stark commentary on the alienation that…
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Poetry: July 2025
Wedding : Srilekha Mitra Twenty three broken mirrors Glazed with the hazelnut ice-cream of your wedding Slashed eyeballs rolling down the savannah green floor Fresh milk spilling over the granite kitchen slab Smoke rising from burning cigarettes And a few hopes crying Women wearing pretty white gowns Their cheeks painted in red and golden Grooving,…
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Mumbai through the eyes of Sheth and Senior
The Work of Art All five images were photographed in Mumbai between 2021 and 2025. The theme ‘The Work of Art’ is an homage to the title The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing, a book by Adam Moss (Penguin Press/USA/2024) Selina Sheth and Anil Senior are writers and filmmakers based in Mumbai.…
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Photographs by Mainak Majhi
Mainak Maji, is an Engineering student by degree, storyteller by instinct. He likes to capture fleeting moments through his phone’s lens, chasing light, symmetry, and stories. He feels like the world is his canvas, and his camera, a looking glassto hidden narratives in everyday life.
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The Art of Dawid Planeta
FROM “MINI PEOPLE IN THE JUNGLE” BY DAWID PLANETA “One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.” – Meister Eckhart “The Hermit”, 2023, ©Dawid Tobias Planeta The young man approached the hermit. He was standing still, looking into the light. “Are you beginning to tell a story again?” the hermit asked, his eyes…
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Non-Fiction, July 2025
I admit it sounds strange but the key to packing books – so that they can withstand, and prevail, a rough and tumble journey in the back of a truck lurching over potholed roads – is ‘breathlessness’. Every last square inch in the carton must be occupied, stuffed with either a book or rolls and…
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In Conversation with Mehak Jamal
Mehak Jamal talks of creating a “a repository of undeniability“ Mehak Jamal’s debut work Loal Kashmir: Love and Longing in a Torn Land has been the talk of the literary world since its publication. Sayan Aich Bhowmik was in conversation with the author, trying to dig deeper into what went into the mapping of the book,…
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Dibyajyoti Sarma: Rooted in Freedom Through Poetry
Semeen Ali in conversation with Dibyajyoti Sarma I spoke to Dibyajyoti to reflect not just on poetry or publishing, but on how language and a city can shape, un-shape, and reshape a person. This exchange is less an interview and more a quiet tracing of that delicate line between rootedness and drift. Dibya, as his…
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