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August’24 : Films and Pop Culture
Editorial by Gita Viswanath It is with great pleasure that I write this note as the newly appointed editor of the film section of Parcham Online. Ever since the institutionalization of film studies by University departments around the 1990s in India, academic interest in cinema has grown by leaps and bounds. The interest has translated…
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August 2024 Issue: Book Reviews
Book Review: Victory City by Tufan De Victory City: A Panegyric on Divine Litterateur Name of the book – Victory city Published by – Random House Number of Pages – 352 Name of the Author – Salman Rushdie Year of Publication – 2023 It is with the publication of Victory City (2023), Rushdie’s oeuvre has…
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Photo-Essay: August 24 Issue
Stalking Nature : Photo Essay by Purabi Bhattacharya Save memories. The grey is overtaking all that is left green. Caged living. What once was natural is now pushed out of the margin. Lions, tigers, rhinos present a spectacle on demand. Pristine nature in most urban conversation is an illusion. The recent cloudburst or landslide stories…
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August’24 Issue: Short Stories and Fiction
Editorial by Bhaswati Ghosh On those nights when sleep eludes me, which, unfortunately aren’t all that few, I turn to Spotify’s Calm station. As if they were a mother’s hand stroking my head, soft, kindhearted notes glide me into sleep. Our world is insomniac now too, one might argue. Sleep has long been eluding children…
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August’24 Issue: Non-Fiction & Personal Essay
August’24 Issue Editorial by Bhaswati Ghosh On those nights when sleep eludes me, which, unfortunately aren’t all that few, I turn to Spotify’s Calm station. As if they were a mother’s hand stroking my head, soft, kindhearted notes glide me into sleep. Our world is insomniac now too, one might argue. Sleep has long been…
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August 2024 Poetry: Issue Theme– Music
Editorial: Bhaswati Ghosh On those nights when sleep eludes me, which, unfortunately aren’t all that few, I turn to Spotify’s Calm station. As if they were a mother’s hand stroking my head, soft, kindhearted notes glide me into sleep. Our world is insomniac now too, one might argue. Sleep has long been eluding children in…
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Call For Submissions: August 2024 Issue
Your mother’s heartbeat when you’re still inside her womb. The unmistakable coo of a koel, a song sparrow’s irresistible spring song, a cardinal’s earnest tweets — each a symphony so sweet to wake up to that, to paraphrase one of Rabindranath Tagore’s songs, it makes the very sleep it breaks, coveted. Snatches of a keertan…
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April Issue—Nishi Pulugurtha
The guard has waved the green flag, Appagaru would say, the sound of the whistle that he blew could be heard softly and the wheels set in motion. We kept looking back in the direction of the platform waving goodbye for as long as we could see Appagaru, Sahu and Shibu.
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April Issue:Andrzej Bilunski
The wind blows warmer. Open the window, open the door. Your little big world is waiting for you just around the corner… A sandcastle, a magical piece of chalk, bike trips, a little rocking horse. We return to our places, get used to them, discover them anew every day.
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Photography Section: April Issue
THE BAT TREES OF AADORPARA— Ipsita Deb Attempting to articulate the child’s perspective, through lenses, or to write about it, is a daunting task. For me, I have always found myself, perpetually trapped within the child I left decades back. I can’t write ‘about’ the child. And so, I surrender to the intimacy of memory…
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