Author: Parcham Magazine
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August Issue: Poetry Section
Letter from the Other Side of Silence — Stephanie L. Harper Dear One: A life-long dusk of onyx-black has failed to send back even faint echoes of my own refrains. I know what it is to be mocked by the wind’s bare-rhythmed hiss through night-hidden palm fronds and rolling surf, stultifying me with its droning…
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Non- Fiction: August Issue
Racial profiling in Japan: Who could speak for them? Mayumi Yamamoto One Friday morning, while browsing online news, I was searching for a material to use for discussion in my class. Due to my academic background, after retiring from my career as a researcher, I have been taking care of the students from one of…
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Ipsita Deb in conversation with Portrait Artist Subhojit Bhar
Ipsita : Subhojit, please take us through your journey. How did you first discover your passion for painting? Also, about your techniques, medium, and the colours you use. I am a self-taught portrait artist who likes to work both in traditional and digital media. For the most part of the day though, I am a…
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SNAPSHOTS: Photo Series August Issue.
Editor’s Note by Ipsita Deb “There is no story behind it. It is split like a second.” “The Butterfly”, Arun Kolatkar. Snapshots – often technically “imperfect” or amateurish photographs, poorly framed – are evanescent and ephemeral fragments of time, in their essence. Whether it’s an instantaneous sun-down, existing in a singular moment in history; or a sudden revelation…
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Voices: Call For Submissions for the August Issue.
VOICES “The world is full of paper, Write to me.”—Agha Shahid Ali. To have a chance and an opportunity to have one’s voice heard is sometimes a matter of privilege. A privilege that often, we can take for granted. What does it mean to put forward one’s voice into the world—a voice underlining a credo,…
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FICTION: THIRD ISSUE
Life Jacket by Suzette Marie Bishop B.J. liked to wear his lifejacket around the house. They had a small pond in the front yard. B.J.’s dad, a freshwater biologist, was sold on the water feature when they bought the house, but his parents worried he might fall in. Instead of taking the lifejacket on and…
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Poems: Third Issue, March 2023
We, at Parcham, have been overwhelmed with the submissions that have come in for the Poetry Section for this particular issue. As Founding Editor, I would like to thank Bhaswati Ghosh, Candice Louisa Daquin and Sumana Roy, for helping me curate this section. My apologies to the contributors for the delay in publication. But I…
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PERSONAL ESSAYS AND NON-FICTION: THIRD ISSUE
LEAF by Matt McGee The mulberry planted in the 1960’s has shaded my add-on apartment from the sun all summer long. When my daily alarm goes off and the agenda only says all clear, go surfing! the tree’s leaves report how much shoreline breeze I can expect and from which direction. While off at work,…
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Third Issue: SILENCES
What is silence? Is it ‘Death’- as one often says – ‘Dead Silence’? A deafening absence, perhaps? The absence of sound. A lack of expressive vocabulary. How to accentuate something that exists in not existing? — Does silence have any colour? Does it have any sound? Smell? Is it freezing cold or warm as a…
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