Category: Hear! Hear!
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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
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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Poetry Section: October 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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Review of Arundhati Roy’s Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Agnibha Maity and Rusha Biswas
Tales of Graveyards: Understanding Kashmir, Liminality, and Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness ‘She lived in the graveyard like a tree’ – The Ministry of Utmost Happiness begins with the suggestion of a paradox, of death and life simultaneously. Graveyard pervades the discourse and literature related to Kashmir which is, of course, a ‘territory…
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Spring Issue: On Films and Pop-Culture
Seven Scraps on Fiction by Tanuj Solanki Piali Bose on Tarun Majumdar’s Ekhane Pinjar Pragyan Mohanty on Firoze Chinoy’s pulpy films Dr. Susmita Dasgupta on South spectacles in the Modi era Seven Scraps on Fiction in Literature, Cinema, and Dreams Tanuj Solanki 1. The difference is basic, and it starts with “I.” Natural for literature.…
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Short Fiction: Spring Issue 2022.
Kafka’s Kashmir by Takbeer Salati Fasola’s Freedom by Shruti Sareen Kailash Pattanaik’s Flash Fiction translated by Khushi Pattanayak Kafka’s Kashmir By Takbeer Salati We lay there under open skies on a boat, of our dreams uncoated with heartbreaks. He had a lot of layered assignments and yet he lay with me amidst the lotuses, reciting…
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