Author: Parcham Magazine
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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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Call For Submissions for the Third Issue.
In one of his poems, Wordsworth argued that a glimpse and impulse of the vernal wood taught us more about Man and moral right and wrong than all the wise and the learned could possibly think of. And yet, we have been slow in realising that we have taken Nature for granted. The recent crisis…
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Poetry Section: October, 2022 Issue
Ankush Rakela by Pooja Ugrani 1. My paycheque overshadows my worldview I cannot afford to voice my opinion I squirm in the comfort of shutting up for my loved ones My safety net wasn’t woven that dense 2. A peek into a larger world, I am pulled back by the ankush of check marks against…
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Photo Essay for the October Issue.
The Tree with Many Eyes By Dr. Chayanika Saikia October brings in a mixed sensation in the air – the reminiscent of blissful drizzles infusing with gentle autumn breeze beneath a sepia sky, sweeps away the perplexities of a slumber mind. I find these autumn evenings great for self-exploration, making one’s inner vision clear like…
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Short Fiction October Issue, 2022
PERSONAL TRANSIT Kristine Harley It was a migraine this time, stretching the halls into shimmering periscopes, long dark tunnels at the end of which twinkled fractured destinations—the table, the conference room, an office door. It was a migraine that she had this time, not a headache, but the big one: a shifting kaleidoscope dizziness that…
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