Category: Hear! Hear!
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“…To Write As Sharp As A Knife..”
Candice Louisa Daquin in conversation with artist, poet and activist, Dr. Jharna Choudhury “The mouth of a needle” is the embroidery activist Dr. Jharna Choudhury’s first collection of short poems in English. Choudhury has been writing since 2011; and she split her poetry manuscript into two books. The first, “the mouth of a needle,” was…
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Of Passions & Provocations
Filmmaker and Writer Devashish Makhija’s New Book Bewilderness is a Homecoming to Poetry
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Issue X : March 2026
Women-Nature Nexus: Ecology and its Feminist Undertones Guest Editor: Aditee Sharma Concept Note Long before the emergence of environmentalism as a movement and a social thought, there were women who stood for it amid life and loss. This call emerges from those stories that refuse to remain buried in the archives. It is an invitation…
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Candice Louisa Daquin reviews Brown Girl in the Rain
The six sections of Brown Gal in the Rain, evoke the poet, Indrani Chowdhury’s inner life, through her fascination with themes of love, longing, heartbreak, and intimate relationships. This opening segues into considerations of Hues of Life to include life’s complexities, the development of deep emotions and insights into existence. The section, Peekaboo is a…
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Poetry : December 2025 Issue
In placing ourselves — humans — front and centre of everything, we’ve turned into Frankensteins condemned to self-destruct. The scales of justice haven’t merely tipped off balance; they’re on the edge, about to crumble under the unbearable weight of obese human greed.
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Editorial : December 2025
The Conundrum of India’s Domestic Workers by Parth Singh The Invisible backbone of Urban Life Before sunrise, millions of women across India wake up to cook, clean, fetch water, and send their children to school—working on their household chores with little rest. Then, they leave home to go to middle-class apartments, where they do the…
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Showcasing: Fractured States by Ranjan Roy
Book: Fractured States Author: Ranjan Roy Translated from the Bengali by Ritwika Maiti In a near-future India, the nation has shed the last remnants of its democratic past. The Constitution has been quietly rewritten, surveillance technologies monitor every citizen, and belonging is no longer a right—it must be proven through documentation. The government, through its…
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December ’25: Films & Pop Culture
Windows to Happy Alleys by Rituparna Sengupta I speak out of the depth of night Out of the darkness I speak If you come to my house, friend bring me a lamp and a window through which I can look at the crowd in the happy alleys These lines, from a poem by the late…
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December 2025: Fiction
In placing ourselves — humans — front and centre of everything, we’ve turned into Frankensteins condemned to self-destruct. The scales of justice haven’t merely tipped off balance; they’re on the edge, about to crumble under the unbearable weight of obese human greed.
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New Release
Writing from the Solitary: An Anthology on Loneliness Writing from the Solitary: An Anthology on Loneliness, edited by Priyanka Sarkar andvSemeen Ali, collates twenty-three voices pondering over the feeling of loneliness. Featuring poems, essays, and short stories, the collection brings the daunting subject into the foreground: not as something that needs to be resolved, rather…
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